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However, when Reconstruction lead to segregation of the races by law, ‘in the South’, as Donald B. The aftermath of emancipation, known as the Reconstruction era (1863–1877), saw an attempt to transform the Confederate states by providing former slaves with legal rights and citizenship. In tracing and attributing black disempowerment to the legacy of slavery, Du Bois’s theorizations of the impact of the Reconstruction Era are considered his most important contribution to African American literature.įollowing the American Civil War (1861–1865), the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated approximately 3.9 million black men, women and children, ending four hundred years of institutional enslavement in North America. As the first black African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University, Du Bois’s writings ‘helped to create the intellectual argument for the black freedom struggle in the twentieth century’. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist and historian who later became an active civil rights campaigner and Pan-Africanist.
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