care-chiselled

Updated: May 11, 2025

Then the long-headed man with care-chiselled face who sat in the White House saw the inevitable, and emancipated the slaves of rebels on New Year's, 1863. A month later Congress called earnestly for the Negro soldiers whom the act of July, 1862, had half grudgingly allowed to enlist. Thus the barriers were levelled and the deed was done.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk