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W.E.B. Du Bois: “Fortunately so exaggerated a charge is humanly impossible of truth.”

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Fortunately so exaggerated a charge is humanly impossible of truth.
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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Du Bois argues against the exaggerated claims about the moral failings attributed to black women.

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