invisible and separated from their white brothers and
sisters. Du Bois wrote *I*Souls of Black Folk*/I*s to lift
the veil and show the pain and sorrow of a striving people.
Like Saint Paul’s letter to the Corinthians Du Bois’s
"letter" to the American people urges people not to
live behind the veil but to live above it. */P*
*CENTER**FORM**P*So, wed with truth, */P*
*P*I dwell above the Veil.*/P*
*P*Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America?*/P*
*P*-W.E.B. Du Bois*/P*
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*P**A href=#Footnote1A name=Footnote1B*Footnote1*/A**/P*
*P* W.E.B. Du Bois,*I* The Souls of Black Folk*/I* (New
York: Bantam Company, 1989) 3.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote2A name=Footnote2B*Footnote2*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 6.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote3A name=Footnote3B*Footnote3*/A**/P*
*P* Arnold Rampersad, *I*Slavery and the literary
imagination: Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk*/I*
(Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1989) 104-125.
Rampersad in his book says that Du Bois’s metaphor of the
veil is an allusion to Saint Paul’s letter to the
Corinthians. */P*
*P**A href=#Footnote4A name=Footnote4B*Footnote4*/A**/P*
*P* W.E.B. Du Bois,*I* The Souls of Black Folk*/I* (New
York: Bantam Company, 1989) 3.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote5A name=Footnote5B*Footnote5*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 3.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote6A name=Footnote6B*Footnote6*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., xxxi.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote7A name=Footnote7B*Footnote7*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 189.*/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.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote9A name=Footnote9B*Footnote9*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 318.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote10A name=Footnote10B*Footnote10*/A**/P*
*P* Bell Hooks, *I*Ain’t I a Women: black women and
*/I*feminism (Boston: South End Press, 1981) 20.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote11A name=Footnote11B*Footnote11*/A**/P*
*P* Eric Foner, *I*Reconstruction America’s Unfinished
Revolution*/I* (New York: Harper & Row Company, 1989)
xix-xxvii.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote12A name=Footnote12B*Footnote12*/A**/P*
*P* Ralph Ellison, *I*Invisible Man*/I* (New York: Random
House Publishing, 1990) 3.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote13A name=Footnote13B*Footnote13*/A**/P*
*P* W.E.B. Du Bois,*I* The Souls of Black Folk*/I* (New
York: Bantam Company, 1989) 1.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote14A name=Footnote14B*Footnote14*/A**/P*
*P* Eric Foner, *I*Reconstruction America’s Unfinished
Revolution*/I* (New York: Harper & Row Company, 1989)
119.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote15A name=Footnote15B*Footnote15*/A**/P*
*P* Albert Rabatoteau, *I*Slave Religion: The invisible
institution "in the Antebellum South" */I* (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1980) 294-300. According to
Rabatoteau slaves stressed the stores of Exodus and the
Sermon on Mount thus providing them with hope in the darkness
of slavery.*/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. */P*
*P**A href=#Footnote17A name=Footnote17B*Footnote17*/A**/P*
*P* Eric Foner, *I*Reconstruction America’s Unfinished
Revolution*/I* (New York: Harper & Row Company, 1989)
xxi-xxiv..*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote18A name=Footnote18B*Footnote18*/A**/P*
*P* W.E.B. Du Bois,*I* The Souls of Black Folk*/I* (New
York: Bantam Company, 1989) xxxi.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote19A name=Footnote19B*Footnote19*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 3.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote20A name=Footnote20B*Footnote20*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 147.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote21A name=Footnote21B*Footnote21*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 151.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote22A name=Footnote22B*Footnote22*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 153.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote23A name=Footnote23B*Footnote23*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., xxxii.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote24A name=Footnote24B*Footnote24*/A**/P*
*P* Ibid., 187.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote25A name=Footnote25B*Footnote25*/A**/P*
*P* August Meier, *I*Negro thought in America 1880-1915*/I*
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966) 230-232.*/P*
*P**A href=#Footnote26A name=Footnote26B*Footnote26*/A**/P*
*P* Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter (New York: Quill
William Morrow, 1984) 184. Paula Giddings points out how
black women were stereotyped into three categories, the
sexless suffering Aunt Jamima, the seductive temptress
Jezebel, and the evil manipulative Sapphire. These are just
some of the negative stereotypes of Blacks that formed on the
white side of the veil. */P*
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