W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

Glossary

• “Atlanta Compromise” the informal name of a speech given by Booker T. Washington in 1895
• Attucks, Salem, and Poor African Americans Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, and Salem Poor, who fought in the Revolutionary War
• Aycock North Carolina governor Charles Aycock, a white supremacist
• Banneker Benjamin Banneker, an accomplished African American scientist, mathematician, and surveyor who helped lay out Washington, D.C.
• Barbadoes James G. Barbadoes, one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
• Ben Tillman an open racist who fought Republican government in South Carolina as a member of a paramilitary group known as the Red Shirts
• Bruce Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first black U.S. senator to serve a full term
• Byron George Gordon Lord Byron, a prominent British Romantic poet of the early nineteenth century; the quotation is from his long narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• Cato of Stono a reference to the Stono Rebellion of 1739 (also called Cato's Rebellion), a slave revolt in South Carolina
• Crummell Alexander Crummell, a prominent abolitionist and pan-Africanist
• Cuffes a reference to Paul Cuffe and his followers, who wanted to establish a free colony in West Africa
• Danish blacks a group of slaves who, in 1723, gained control of Saint John in the Virgin Islands (then the Danish West Indies) for six months
• Derham James Derham, the first African American doctor in the colonies
• Douglass Frederick Douglass, the preeminent abolitionist of the nineteenth century
• Du Bois of New Haven probably a reference to Du Bois's ancestor, Alexander Du Bois, who was disowned by his family because his mother was a black Haitian
• Elliott Robert Brown Elliott, a black congressman
• Forten James Forten, an early abolitionist and businessman
• Gabriel Gabriel Prosser, who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800
• Grimkes a reference to the half-brothers of prominent white abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimké, born of their father's liaison with a slave woman
• Haytian revolt the revolution that led to a free Haiti in 1803
• J. W. E. Bowen John Wesley Edward Bowen, a Methodist clergyman, university educator, one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. degree in the United States, and the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Boston University
• Jefferson Davis the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
• Joshua in the Old Testament, the leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses
• Kelly Miller a scientist, mathematician, essayist, and newspaper columnist; the first black admitted to The Johns Hopkins University
• Langston Charles Langston, a black activist and grandfather of the poet Langston Hughes
• Maroons escaped slaves in Haiti and throughout the Caribbean who formed gangs that lived in the forests and attacked French plantations
• Nat Turner leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831
• Nell William Cooper Nell, an abolitionist, author, journalist, and civil servant
• Payne Daniel Payne, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the founders of Wilberforce University
• Phyllis Phillis Wheatley, an eighteenth-century slave poet
• President Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt, who earlier had led forces in the Spanish-American War
• Price William G. Price, an African American educator
• Purvis Robert Purvis, a nineteenth-century abolitionist who was three quarters white but chose to identify with the black community
• Remond Charles Lenox Remond, an orator and abolitionist
• Revolution of 1876 a reference to the disputed presidential election of 1876, which led to the end of the Reconstruction era
• Senator Morgan John Tyler Morgan, a segregationist Alabama senator after the Civil War
• Shad probably a reference to Abraham Shadd, a free black who opposed African colonization by U.S. blacks
• Socrates an ancient Greek philosopher
• St. Francis of Assisi a Catholic saint who founded the Franciscan order of priests
• Thomas Nelson Page an author of sentimental novels idealizing pre–Civil War plantation life
• Toussaint Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution
• Tuskegee Tuskegee Institute, the educational institution, stressing occupational skills, founded by Booker T. Washington
• Vesey Denmark Vesey, who led a slave revolt in South Carolina in 1822
• Walker's wild appeal David Walker's influential Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
• Wells-Brown William Wells Brown, a prominent historian, lecturer, playwright, and novelist