veil as it passed over my baby, I saw the cold city towering above the blood read land."*A href=#Footnote20B name=Footnote20A*Footnote20*/A* In this passage Du Bois is both with in and above the veil. He is a Negro living like his baby within the veil but he is also above the veil, able to see it pass over his child. After Du Bois's child dies he prays that it will, "sleep till I sleep, and waken to a baby voice and the ceaseless patter of little feet-above the veil."*A href=#Footnote21B name=Footnote21A*Footnote21*/A* Here Du Bois is living above the veil but in the following Chapter he once again travels behind the veil to tell the story of Alexander Crummell a black man who for, "fourscore years had he wondered in this same world of mine, within the Veil."*A href=#Footnote22B name=Footnote22A*Footnote22*/A* Du Bois then in the last Chapter "Sorrow Songs" travels back into the veil from which he came, to return to the spiritual. Du Bois's ability to move around the veil could create some confusion as to whether the writer is black. For this reason Du Bois says in his introduction says that, "I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil."*A href=#Footnote23B name=Footnote23A*Footnote23*/A* Du Bois's ability to move in and out of the veil gives him the ability to expose to whites that which is obscured from their view. It also lends Du Bois authority when speaking about his subject matter for he alone in the book is able to operate on both sides of the veil. *br* In the Chapter on "Sorrow Songs" Du Bois implores the reader to rise above the veil, "In his good time America shall rend the veil and the prisoner shall go free."*A href=#Footnote24B name=Footnote24A*Footnote24*/A* Du Bois likens the veil to a prison that traps Blacks from achieving progress and freedom. According to Du Bois ...
