Souls of Black Folk Literary Response (7)

Steve Epting
AP English
Souls of Black Folk Literary Response (Chapter 7)
In the text, Du Bois explains the “centre of the Negro problem”. The major problem for the Negroes is slavery. “…you may stand on a spot which is to-day the centre of the Negro problem,-the centre of those nine million men who are America’s dark heritage from slavery and slave trade.” Many black people go back to the mind of a slave or they use slavery as an excuse for anything.
Du Bois saying is very true because even after slavery, there were racial issues going on that included the black population. Slavery was happening all over the South. The writer said this because he was talking about the land in Atlanta. He said that Atlanta, the land of the Cherokees, is not far from where Sam Hose was crucified. He related it back to slavery by saying that this was the center of the Negro problems.
Nine million men, women, and children were put through the worst agony that anyone could ever experience. This entire situation brought the black people together to help them work together and to keep their spirits up.
Slavery and slave trade is America’s dark heritage. That means that those things are in America’s past that either they don’t care about or they don’t want to ever bring it about.