A Moment Above the Veil

Towards the end of chapter six in The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois describes a shining instance in which he “dwells above the veil.” (74) Du Bois describes an out of this world experience that portrays his comfort with the literature he reads and which he sees Truth reflected in. Du…

Surrounded by Contradictions: Brown’s Life in the South

In the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Brown illustrates the oxymorons that permeated the Southern ideology at the time. As Brown notices, Southern people profess Christianity, but enslave others and Americans profess that they live in the land of the free and ring with “professions of equality” while people in the South…