'tocsin' in Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 | Bookmarker

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an alarm bell or signal (from Old French)

that the slaveholders’ rebellion was to sound the tocsin for a general holy war of property against labor

—p.218 VII. Looking Forward (182) by W.E.B. Du Bois

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