The Souls of Black Folk is an early 20th century novel written by W. E. B. DuBois in response to the Emancipation Proclamation set by Abraham Lincoln to declare African- Americans as free people. The novel is extremely thick and is difficult reading however; it is also extremely insightful and provides the reader with much knowledge as to what the African Americans were feeling at the close of the 1800’s.

DuBois makes it extremely clear that there was not racial justice at the close of the Civil War and that the black people were still being unjustly persecuted, just as they were during slavery. Although it is not legal, there was still much segregation between th

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Approximate Word count = 489
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)