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Retextualize W.E.B. Du Bois's 'Apologia' (1954) to The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade
by Robert W. Williams

 In Particular:


 Retex­tu­alizer is used here to engage with W.E.B. Du Bois's "Apologia", which he appended to the 1954 re-publication of his Suppression of the African Slave-Trade by the Social Science Press.


 This website offers a page where I initially presented this "Apologia".



 The Primary Source


 Du Bois, W.E.B. "Apologia." Pp.327-329 in Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. NY: The Social Science Press, 1954.

 The entire book is accessible as page facsimiles at the HathiTrust Digital Library: catalog page.


 The start page at the HathiTrust Digital Library: p. 327.


Primary Source Notes:


 Du Bois's book title, Black Reconstruction, was not italicized in the "Apologia"; neither were "laissez-faire, laissez-passez".


 The "Apologia" contained two sets of two-sentence quotations from the original publication (sentences 36 and 37). I have kept them paired together for the purposes of the retextualizations.


 Du Bois occasionally capitalized the initial letter of a few nouns (e.g., Slave-Power; Economic Revolution, Sociology).