Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel

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TitleQuest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel
Year for Search1911
AuthorsDu Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt(1868-1963)
Tertiary AuthorsDu Bois, W. E. Burghardt, and Du Bois, W. E. B.
Date Published1911
PublisherA. C. McClurg
Place PublishedChicago, IL
KeywordsAfrican American author, Male author
Annotation

Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. .
Additional Publishers

Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii). 
Illustration

Illus. H. S. De Lay
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (1868-1963) was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and was one of the most prominent thinkers in the U. S. in the early twentieth century.
Full Text

1911 Du Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] (1868-1963). The Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel. Illus. H. S. De Lay. Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg. Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii). PSt 

.Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. The author was the first African-American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and was one of the most prominent thinkers in the U. S. in the early twentieth century.