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The Quest of the Silver Fleece

by W. E. B. Du Bois

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1911
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  1. 01 - Dreams

    15:07

  2. 02 - The School

    8:19

  3. 03 - Miss Mary Taylor

    11:42

  4. 04 - Town

    18:15

  5. 05 - Zora

    15:42

  6. 06 - Cotton

    20:01

  7. 07 - The Place of Dreams

    22:47

  8. 08 - Mr. Harry Cresswell

    15:37

  9. 09 - The Planting

    18:04

  10. 10 - Mr. Taylor Calls

    27:49

  11. 11 - The Flowering of the Fleece

    16:55

  12. 12 - The Promise

    25:29

  13. 13 - Mrs. Grey Gives a Dinner

    9:48

  14. 14 - Love

    10:50

  15. 15 - Revelation

    22:42

  16. 16 - The Great Refusal

    16:27

  17. 17 - The Rape of the Fleece

    14:50

  18. 18 - The Cotton Corner

    16:57

  19. 19 - The Dying of Elspeth

    21:33

  20. 20 - The Weaving of the Silver Fleece

    16:52

  21. 21 - The Marriage Morning

    15:02

  22. 22 - Miss Caroline Wynn

    20:36

  23. 23 - The Training of Zora

    15:26

  24. 24 - The Education of Alwyn

    21:14

  25. 25 - The Campaign

    25:32

  26. 26 - Congressman Cresswell

    20:47

  27. 27 - The Vision of Zora

    19:33

  28. 28 - The Annunciation

    16:51

  29. 29 - A Master of Fate

    24:56

  30. 30 - The Return of Zora

    20:39

  31. 31 - A Parting of Ways

    35:37

  32. 32 - Zora's Way

    15:56

  33. 33 - The Buying of the Swamp

    25:53

  34. 34 - The Return of Alwyn

    26:00

  35. 35 - The Cotton Mill

    23:42

  36. 36 - The Land

    28:32

  37. 37 - The Mob

    16:00

  38. 38 - Atonement

    17:16

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Du Bois's first novel unfolds in the cotton country of Alabama, where two young people, Bles Alwyn and the wild, gifted Zora, come of age amid poverty and racial oppression. Cotton is the silver fleece of the title, a crop that enriches planters and merchants while grinding down the people who grow it. As Bles reaches for education and Zora finds her own power, both are drawn into a web of ambition, betrayal, and political corruption that stretches from the rural South to Washington. Part love story and part economic argument, the book dramatizes the ideas about labor and race that Du Bois pursued all his life. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, and activist, and the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. A co-founder of the NAACP and a tireless advocate for civil rights and Pan-Africanism, he wrote across sociology, history, and literature.

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First published
1911
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
398
Language
English
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