a thoughtful companion for reading Du Bois's only novel of this period, here to help you read W. E. B. Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece closely — how it uses a cotton-country romance to dramatize the economics of Black land, labor, and education in the Jim Crow South.
Getting Oriented
Context & Craft
Based on "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" by W. E. B. Du Bois