The Death of His Son

From The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The deeply personal chapter mourning the death of Du Bois's infant son Burghardt, whose loss he frames as escape from the Veil.
Chapter 11: Of the Passing of the First-Born
Within the Veil was he born, said I; and there within shall he live,---a Negro and a Negro's son. Holding in that little head---ah, bitterly!---the unbowed pride of a hunted race.
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Chapter 11: Of the Passing of the First-Born

The wrenching cry: 'All that day and all that night there sat an awful gladness in my heart,---nay, blame me not if I see the world thus darkly through the Veil.'

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