W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was a pioneering sociologist, historian, and novelist, who was for many years professor at Atlanta University. A leading figure in the NAACP and the founding editor of

The Essentials in the Struggle

* What follows is the final chapter of Dr. Du Bois’s 1896 book The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870. Much historical research since Du Bois’s time has added to and in some respects may have altered our understandings. And Du Bois’