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Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Abram L. Harris

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Returning an article that Harris sent him, and explaining that he doesn't think that the Mrs. Burghardt mentioned in the article was related to him because she was described as a "light mulatto," and his family has "unmixed Negro blood," and because she lived in western New York.
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Keywords

  1. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868 1963
  2. Family
  3. History
  4. Slaver
  5. Slavery

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