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The Quest of the Silver Fleece by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Book Summary
Originally published in 1911 and conceived immediately after "The Souls of Black Folk", "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" was William Edward Burghardt Du Bois' first novel.
Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of prejudice and bias. Du Bois turned to fiction to carry his message to a popular audience who were unfamiliar with his nonfiction works. He addresses the fact that, despite the legal emancipation of African Americans, the instruments of oppression, in both the economy and government, remained in good working order. At the time he was writing, powerful white industrialists controlled the cotton industry, the "silver fleece" that depended, as it did during slavery, on the physical labour of African Americans. White Americans also controlled local and national government.
"The Quest of the Silver Fleece" combined literary realism with some romanticism and political-economic analysis to provide a story of two Black protagonists, a man and a woman, who eventually work together to build an economic community -- a community that provided a way to overcome both the overt and the systemic racism of a fictional post-Reconstruction Alabama town and county. Cotton (the silver fleece) was the valuable crop that, as Du Bois suggested in the novel, would help rural African Americans become self-sufficient.
Blessed "Bles" Alwyn, a young man seeking formal education to improve himself, is captivated by Zora, a vivacious, independent woman who lives outside society in a mysterious swamp. Faced with shocking events in Zora's past and ambivalence about how a black man should integrate into American society, Bles pursues his goals and ends up in Washington to assist on a senator's campaign. While in the city, he meets successful African Americans—and falls in love—but he ultimately recoils from the hypocrisies they must endure in order to be accepted in society. Instead, he is compelled to return to Alabama and Zora, where he must face his greatest challenges and fears.
"The Quest of the Silver Fleece" is a remarkable portrait of racial prejudice at the turn of the twentieth century. Through the characters, Du Bois demonstrates the efficacy of self-sufficiency for those who face discrimination while championing the benefits of strength in diversity to American society as a whole.
Book Name | The Quest of the Silver Fleece |
Genre | Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults |
Author | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
Published | 16 February 2023, Thursday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 1.65 MB |
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The The Quest of the Silver Fleece book written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was published on 16 February 2023, Thursday in the Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults category. A total of 116 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
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