ABSTRACT
The Negro is a sort of seventh son, bom with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world—a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.… One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being tom asunder.
