Part 2 Series: In Memory Of; The Souls of Black Folk
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~~~~~~~ I personally asked my good friend, Mr. Brownl, to write a review Of The Quest of The Golden Fleece. Mr. Brown expressed the passionate points needed to reach a thought-provoking rewiew. I have provided below a clip the emphasis W.E.B. Du Bois unique vision:
Of The Quest Of The Golden Fleece - Review by W. Owen Brown, a guest writer
This is the question that Du Bois opens with in Of The Quest Of The Golden Fleece. A question, which sets the stage for his analysis of economic, political and racial climate that defined the deep south in the late 1800's. Du Bois takes a look at one county in Georgia...where cotton was king and the driving force of an economic system that bound the souls of black folk as tightly as the shackles of slavery. To understand how tightly economics, politics, and racism are interrelated you only have to understand the true inner workings of the Cotton Kingdom. Du Bois first explains to us the importance of cotton during the time of slavery and how the economic system was deeply effected by the lost of slave labor. As Du Bois had pointed out in earlier essays, failure to train the newly freed slaves in other industry, forces him to return to what he knows. And what the Black man knew in the south was agriculture and farming. The cash crop at the end of the century was cotton. Now free from his bondage, the Black man sought his place in America. But what the Black man did not realize...nor those who removed him from his bondage... was that without any financial capital or vocational training... there was nowhere for him to go. So the Freedman returned to what he knew and sought his future on the farms. Like a lamb lead to slaughter, the Black man fell back into bondage.
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~~~~~~~ Finally, I have an expectional review by guest writer, W. Owen Brown, on Du Bois passionate essay; Of The Black Belt. W.E.B. Du Bois outlines the particulars of issues during the last turn of the century to reach change. In Du Bois essay, I have concluded his attempt was warranted and successful.
No other State in the Union can count a million Negroes among its citizens; a population as large as the slave population of the whole Union in 1800. No other State fought so long and strenuously to gather this host of Africans.
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