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of these passing figures of the present-past;
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but hating they went to their long home,
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and hating their children's children live today."
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Now, unmistakably,
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Du Bois is using that language of clasping hands for a purpose,
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because it's by far the most ubiquitous image used
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in all the Blue-Grey Reunions, by the '90s.
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He first wrote this essay in 1897
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and revised the Souls of Black Folk in 1903.
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But the most ubiquitous image in all the Blue-Grey reunions was--
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in fact the slogan was--clasping hands across the bloody chasm.
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And the shaking of hands, of the Blue and the Grey,