dogs,
exposes the dehumanizing stereotypes used to rationalize oppression.
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- Nov 2025
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It lynches.
The rhetorical repetition of “It lynches” and the shocking fact of “two Negroes a week” evoke horror and moral outrage.
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But today we return! We return from the slavery of uniform which the world’s madness demanded us to don to the freedom of civil garb. We stand again to look America squarely in the face and call a spade a spade. We sing: This country of ours, despite all its better souls have done and dreamed, is yet a shameful land
Du Bois declares the soldiers’ return as a moment of confrontation with America’s moral failures.
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We are returning from war! The Crisis and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle. For bleeding France and what she means and has meant and will mean to us and humanity and against the threat of German race arrogance, we fought gladly and to the last drop of blood; for America and her highest ideals, we fought in far-off hope; for the dominant southern oligarchy entrenched in Washington, we fought in bitter resignation. For the America that represents and gloats in lynching, disfranchisement, caste, brutality and devilish insult—for this, in the hateful upturning and mixing of things, we were forced by vindictive fate to fight also.
Du Bois opens by acknowledging Black soldiers’ sacrifices in World War I, noting they fought for France and humanity, for America’s ideals, but also—ironically—for a racist system that oppressed them
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- Sep 2025
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The platform is not abolitionist but firmly anti-slavery expansion.
Balances states’ rights with strong national projects (railroad, tariffs, land distribution).
Appeals to a wide coalition: free soil settlers, industrial workers, farmers, and immigrants.
The West is central: as the future of freedom, industry, and settlement.
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Lecompton Constitution u
Shows Republicans using corruption as a political weapon.
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contemplated treason
Positions Republicans as pro-Union and anti-secession.
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propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party
Strong defense of the party’s legitimacy.
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That all men are created equal
preservation of union and constitution
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