Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? — W.E.B. Du Bois · Skopia

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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

The Souls of Black Folk · 1903

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.

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