Webbed Booker T.

I found Booker T. Washington much more conservative and also found that he really wanted to win over the white Southerners so that he could get his point across to them. W.E.B. Du Bois  seemed to be much more Northernized in his mannerisms towards slavery. He also seemed very hostile towards all racists. As for Washington in his language he almost wrote like there was a white man peeking over his shoulder making sure he didn't say anything to bad about white folk. Altough he didn't forget about his own "black pride" thats for sure. He definitely stood up for what he believed in and in my opinion was more convincing that W.E.B. Du Bois because he lived the slavery and the hatred day in and day out while he was a slave. Du Bois' language came off as being a black man that had "heard" of slavery but never experienced it. I almost thought that his approach was just written out of hatred and written out of the want to stand up for his own people. This quote that Du Bois says really portrays the fact that he had only heard/read about the harshness of slavery.

"The red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systematic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon his race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home."

Booker T. Washington's subtleness makes him so much more admireable. Like this quote for instance.

"I do not believe that the Negro should cease voting, for a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote any more than a boy can learn to swim by keeping out of the water, but i do believe that in his voting he should more and more be influenced by those of intelligence and character who are his next-door neighbours."