Press, Du Bois asked that the following paragraph be added to the end of "Of the Black Belt": In the foregoing chapter, "Jews" have been mentioned five times, and the late Jacob Schiff once complained that this gave an impression of anti-Semitism. This at the time I stoutly denied; but as I read the passages again in the light of subsequent history, I see how I laid myself open to this possible misapprehension. What, of course, I meant to condemn was the exploitation of black labor and that it was in this country and at that time in part a matter of immigrant Jews, was incidental and not essential. My inner sympathy with the Jewish people was expressed better in the last paragraph of page 152. But this illustrates how easily one slips into unconscious condemnation of a whole group. The publisher did not add the paragraph, perhaps because Du Bois changed the text instead. Footnotes Further reading Aberjhani (ed.), The Wisdom of W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Citadel Press/Kensington Books, 2013. Adams, Katherine. "Du Bois, Dirt Determinism, and the Reconstruction of Global Value." American Literary History 31.4 (2019): 715–740. Gates, Henry Louis, and Terri Hume Oliver (eds), The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1999. Gibson, Donald B., "Introduction" to The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Kenan, Randall, "Introduction" to The Souls of Black Folk. New York: New American Library/Signet, 1995. Richardson, Mark. The Wings of Atalanta: Essays Written Along the Color Line (pages 73-109). Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2019. Shaw, Stephanie J., W. E. B. Du Bois and "The Souls of Black Folk." Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. External links 1903 non-fiction books African-American literature American non-fiction books Books about race and ethnicity English-language books Essay collections Pan-Africanism Sociology books Works by W. E. B. Du Bois