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Joseph Dubois, also spelled DuBois (July 9, 1767 - August 27, 1798), was an American silversmith, active in New York City.. Dubois was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey and married Sarah Van Dyck about 1796 in New York City, where he worked from 1789 to 1794 as a silversmith at 17 Great Dock Street, 1790 to 1793, and from 1794 to 1797 as a partner with Teunis Denyse Dubois at 87 Pearl Street.
William Du Bois's paternal great-grandfather was James Du Bois of Poughkeepsie, New York, an ethnic French-American of Huguenot origin who fathered several children with enslaved women. [9] One of James' mixed-race sons was Alexander, who was born on Long Cay in the Bahamas in 1803; in 1810, he immigrated to the United States with his father ...
Florent Michel Marie Joseph du Bois de La Villerabel (29 September 1877 – 7 February 1951), archbishop of Aix, Arles and Embrun (1940–1944), was the most prominent of seven French mainland or colonial bishops who, in the aftermath of the Liberation, were obliged to submit their resignations to Pope Pius XII because of their close collaboration with the Germans during the German occupation ...
Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846), French illustrator, lithographer, archaeologist and curator at the Louvre museum; Louis DuBois (Huguenot) (died 1696), Huguenot colonist in New Netherland; Macy DuBois (1929–2007), Canadian architect; Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831-1885), American domestic worker, mother of W.E.B. Du Bois (see above)
The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It covers law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in American society.
Du Bois summarized the work this way: The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and ...
The W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award is given annually by the American Sociological Association to a scholar among its members, whose cumulative body of work constitutes a significant contribution to the advancement of sociology. [1]
John Brown is a biography written by W. E. B. Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown.Published in 1909, it tells the story of John Brown, from his Christian rural upbringing, to his failed business ventures and finally his "blood feud" with the institution of slavery as a whole.