the direction of freedom and safety? For Du Bois there was no History. [pp.244-5] Du Bois's insistence on black people as a revolutionary proletariat during the Civil War pointed to a glaring hole in both Marxist theories surrounding slavery and the more general study of African Americans by professional academics. too far in attributing to the embryonic
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