On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that swayed and blinded men.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois reflects on the profound emotional intensity and human passions of the Reconstruction era, acknowledging the challenge of writing about it objectively.
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