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Freedmen's Bureau

This organization was in charge of taking care of the blacks in the South after emancipation.

Emancipation

This decree set free all of the slaves in the Americas South.

Atlanta

This is the city of a hundred hills, where DuBois taught for a time.

Tuskegee

This is an institute for technical training founded by Booker T. Washington.

Black Belt

This is the centre of cotton production in America, and this area has been called the Egypt of the Confederacy.

Dougherty County

This is a region DuBois describes in detail in order to give his reader a sense of the color line and how it affects life in the American South.

The Golden Fleece

This piece of cloth was the prize sought in an ancient Greek myth, and the author uses it to describe the wealth of the Georgia cotton.

The black church

This organization pre-dates the...

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