souls of black folk
Veil in The Souls of Black Folk quot;For now we see through a glass, W.E.B. Du Bois's *I*Souls of Black Folk*/I*, a collection of autobiographical and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the duality and bifurcation of black life and culture; but one of the most striking themes is that of "the veil." The veil provides a link between the 14 seemingly unconnected essays that make up *I*The Souls of Black Folk*/I*. Mentioned at least once in most of the 14 essays it means that, "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world, -a world with yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of name=Footnote1A*Footnote1*/A* The veil is a metaphor for the separation and invisibility of black life and existence in
*/P* *P**A href=#Footnote16A name=Footnote16B*Footnote16*/A**/P* *P* Slave owners out special emphasis on sections of the Bible which justified slavery, such as the Hamitic Hypothesis, the Apostle Paul's letter to Phileon a slave owner, and the Hebrew Slaves. Du Bois*/P* *P* */P* */FORM* */CENTER**HR* *P**A href=#Footnote1A name=Footnote1B*Footnote1*/A**/P* *P* W. */P* *P**A href=#Footnote2A name=Footnote2B*Footnote2*/A**/P* *P* Ibid. */P* *P**A href=#Footnote7A name=Footnote7B*Footnote7*/A**/P* *P* Ibid. */P* *P**A href=#Footnote19A name=Footnote19B*Footnote19*/A**/P* *P* Ibid. ica and is a reoccurring theme in books about black life in America. */P* *P**A href=#Footnote20A name=Footnote20B*Footnote20*/A**/P* *P* Ibid. In the forethought Du Bois tells the reader that in the following chapters he has, "Stepped with in the veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, -the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls. "*A href=#Footnote19B name=Footnote19A*Footnote19*/A* Now that he has lifted the veil in the following chapters Du Bois shows his white audience the history of the Black man following reconstruction, the origins of the black church. */P* *P**A href=#Footnote8A name=Footnote8B*Footnote8*/A**/P* *P* Albert Rabatoteau, *I*Slave Religion: The invisible institution "in the Antebellum South" */I* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) 212-318. " Du Bois does not claim that transcending the veil will lead to a better understanding of the lord but like Saint Paul he finds that only through transcending "the veil" can people achieve liberty and gain self-consciousness. Eric Foner's book on the reconstruction was the first major study of the period since Du Bois's book on the period fifty years earlier.
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