| | 1 | Author: | Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt | Add | | | Title: | Of the Training of Black Men  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FROM the shimmering swirl of waters where many, many thoughts
ago the slave-ship first saw the square tower of Jamestown have
flowed down to our day three streams of thinking: one from the
larger world here and over-seas, saying, the multiplying of human
wants in culture lands calls for the world-wide co-operation of men
in satisfying them. Hence arises a new human unity, pulling the
ends of earth nearer, and all men, black, yellow, and white. The
larger humanity strives to feel in this contact of living nations
and sleeping hordes a thrill of new life in the world, crying, If
the contact of Life and Sleep be Death, shame on such Life. To be
sure, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and
dominion, — the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of
beads and red calico cloys. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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