And if in just fury you accuse their vagabonds of violating women, they also in fury quite as just may reply: The rape which your gentlemen have done against helpless black women in defiance of your own laws is written on the foreheads of two millions of mulattoes, and written in ineffaceable blood.
Du Bois presents a forceful counter-accusation from Black people, highlighting the widespread sexual violence committed by white men against Black women, evidenced by the existence of mulatto children.
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