Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, George Inness and Winslow Homer. Fourteen essays on what it is to be a problem: the schools of the Georgia Black Belt, the men who came out of slavery into debt, the meaning of the sorrow songs, and a measured, public quarrel with Booker T. Washington over what Black Americans should ask for. W. E. B. Du Bois was the first Black man to take a doctorate at Harvard and had counted the households of Philadelphia street by street before he wrote it. Every chapter opens with a bar of music and no words. Fifty-three plates by painters including Henry Ossawa Tanner and Winslow Homer carry the landscapes, forests and quiet interiors of the era alongside the text.