Black_Reconstruction_by_Debois

Black Reconstruction by Debois "BLACK RECONSTRUCTION" BY W.E.B DUBOIS The Book ‘Black Reconstruction’ was written by William Edward Burghardt DuBois and first published in New York: Harcourt, Brace in 1935,and later in New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992 The Author W.E.B.DuBois was born on 23rd February, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, just five years after slavery was officially abolished in the United States. Great Barrington had at that time had only about 25-50 blacks among the 5000 or so population. Although there were little signs of overt racism, it’s venom was nevertheless present in the form of vindicative attitudes of it’s residents. This constant barrage of innuendos, combined with the discriminatory behavior caused the nature of young DeBois to change from good natured and outgoing to sullen and withdrawn, elements which haunted him all his life. DeBois died in August 27,1963, on the eve of the March On Washington, in Accra, Ghana. The Synopsis The ‘Black Reconstruction’ by DeBois is a book written on the subject of discrimination of the black society by the whites in the American society. The period of setting of this book is the immediate decade preceding the abolition of slavery in white, debois, new, black, work, book, about, very, thoughts, supremacy, racism, one, lines, blacks, york, writing, whites, thus, subject, states, society, slavery, rather, problem, present, movements, great, century, ‘black, years, written, works, whiteness, venom, treated, time, students, should, scholars, rights, reconstruction’, reader, question, purpose, portrayed, performed, people, number, normal, maxwell