DU-BOIS
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AXN · AXN:072D.ORIGINAL.🍀🗝️🗺️💜🍂✖️ · six glyphs of the SHA-256 of the seat’s MANIFEST.sha256, under the hex of its seating deposit (resolver)
edition · W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870, Harvard Historical Studies I (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896) — the first edition, the doctoral dissertation; Library of Congress copy; The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade (1896), Project Gutenberg EBook #17700 — transcription; The Conservation of Races, American Negro Academy Occasional Papers No. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1897), Project Gutenberg EBook #31254 — transcription; The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Series in Political Economy and Public Law No. 14 (Philadelphia: Published for the University, 1899) — the first edition; Wellesley College Library copy; The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903) — the first edition, 'Published April 18, 1903'; Northwestern University copy (HathiTrust ien.35556032538837), uploaded to the Internet Archive; held as the page images (JP2), the Archive's PDF of this item being over the repository's file limit; The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Project Gutenberg EBook #408 — transcription; Booker T. Washington and others, The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-day (New York: James Pott & Company, 1903), with Du Bois's 'The Talented Tenth', Project Gutenberg EBook #15041 — transcription; John Brown, American Crisis Biographies (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, [1909]) — the first edition; Library of Congress copy; John Brown (1909), Project Gutenberg EBook #62799 — transcription; The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 1 No. 1 (New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, November 1910), W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor — the first number, in the facsimile of the Arno Press authorized reprint (New York, 1969), whose title leaf precedes it; The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911) — the first edition; University of California Libraries copy; The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), Project Gutenberg EBook #15265 — transcription; The Negro, Home University Library of Modern Knowledge (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915) — the first edition; Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy; The Negro (1915), Project Gutenberg EBook #15359 — transcription; Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920) — the first edition; New York Public Library copy; Darkwater (1920), Project Gutenberg EBook #15210 — transcription; The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (Boston: The Stratford Co., 1924) — the first edition; State Library of Pennsylvania copy; The Gift of Black Folk (1924), Project Gutenberg EBook #66398 — transcription; Dark Princess: A Romance (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928) — the first edition, 'Copyright, 1928'; a Google Books scan of a library copy, uploaded to the Internet Archive with the Public Domain Mark
license · payload: Public domain in the United States: every item was first published in the United States in 1930 or earlier. Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes and periodical numbers; Project Gutenberg transcriptions under the Project Gutenberg License (the text is public domain in the United States; the licence governs use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark), whose header each file carries. Outside the United States the terms differ: life plus seventy years opens Du Bois (d. 1963) in 2034 and Hughes (d. 1967) in 2038. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · MANUS, 27 October 2026, after the twenty-fourth seating set the Book of Mormon on the shelf ("its as american as literature comes. but then i am like, i dont have king of malcolm or mao. it leads down a path where things start getting hairy"): "du bois and langston hughes are public domain tho, right?" — then "lets seat what can be seated of du bois and hughes", and, versioning the originals packet to include them: "the canon's america is way too white". The shelf held America in Whitman, Dickinson, Pound, Stein, the Book of Mormon and the Millerites; Du Bois is seated as far as the public domain reaches, and with him the first number of the magazine in which Hughes's first poem appeared.