New Releases by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois''s biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois''s correspondence with his publisher. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Four lectures given as part of an endowed Lectureship on Christian Sociology at Philadelphia Divinity School. Washington''s two lectures concern the economic development of African Americans both during and after slavery. He argues that slavery enabled the freedman to become a success, and that economic and industrial development improves both the moral and the religious life of African Americans. Du Bois argues that slavery hindered the South in its industrial development, leaving an agriculture-based economy out of step with the world around it. His second lecture argues that Southern white religion has been broadly unjust to slaves and former slaves, and how in so doing it has betrayed its own hypocrisy.

Well-documented classic examines the South''s plantation economy and its influence on the slave trade, the role of Northern merchants in financing the slave trade during the 19th century, and much more.