INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS ON
POEMS
ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS,
By Phillis Wheatley
(Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston, In New-England)
1771
CONTENTS
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
AN AMERICAN SLAVE. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
CONTENTS
ADDITIONAL
COLLECTED ARTICLES
By Frederick Douglass
CONTENTS
| MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY |
| RECONSTRUCTION |
MY BONDAGE and MY FREEDOM
By Frederick Douglass
CONTENTS
UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
By Booker T. Washington
CONTENTS
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| UP FROM SLAVERY | |
| Chapter I | A Slave Among Slaves |
| Chapter II | Boyhood Days |
| Chapter III | The Struggle For An Education |
| Chapter IV | Helping Others |
| Chapter V | The Reconstruction Period |
| Chapter VI | Black Race And Red Race |
| Chapter VII | Early Days At Tuskegee |
| Chapter VIII | Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House |
| Chapter IX | Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights |
| Chapter X | A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw |
| Chapter XI | Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them |
| Chapter XII | Raising Money |
| Chapter XIII | Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech |
| Chapter XIV | The Atlanta Exposition Address |
| Chapter XV | The Secret Of Success In Public Speaking |
| Chapter XVI | Europe |
| Chapter XVII | Last Words |
THE NEGRO PROBLEM
By Booker T. Washington and Others
CONTENTS
| I | Industrial Education for the Negro | |
| Booker T. Washington | 7 | |
| II | The Talented Tenth | |
| W.E. Burghardt DuBois | 31 | |
| III | The Disfranchisement of the Negro | |
| Charles W. Chesnutt | 77 | |
| IV | The Negro and the Law | |
| Wilford H. Smith | 125 | |
| V | The Characteristics of the Negro People | |
| H.T. Kealing | 161 | |
| VI | Representative American Negroes | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 187 | |
| VII | The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day | |
| T. Thomas Fortune | 211 |
A NEGRO EXPLORER AT THE NORTH POLE
By Matthew A. Henson
With A Foreword By Robert E. Peary
Rear Admiral, U. S. N., Retired
And An Introduction By Booker T. Washington
CONTENTS
| page | |
| Foreword | v |
| Introduction | xv |
CHAPTER I | |
| The Early Years: Schoolboy, Cabin-Boy, Seaman, and Lieutenant Peary's Body-Servant—First Trips to the Arctic | 1 |
CHAPTER II | |
| Off for the Pole—How the Other Explorers Looked—The Lamb-Like Esquimos—Arrival at Etah | 15 |
CHAPTER III | |
| Finding of Rudolph Franke—Whitney Landed—Trading and Coaling—Fighting the Ice-packs | 26 |
CHAPTER IV | |
| [x]Preparing for Winter at Cape Sheridan—The Arctic Library | 35 |
CHAPTER V | |
| Making Peary Sledges—Hunting in the Arctic Night—the Excitable Dogs and Their Habits | 40 |
CHAPTER VI | |
| The Peary Plan—a Rain of Rocks—My Friends, the Esquimos | 46 |
CHAPTER VII | |
| Sledging to Cape Columbia—Hot Soldering in Cold Weather | 52 |
CHAPTER VIII | |
| In Camp at Columbia—Literary Igloos—The Magnificent Desolation of the Arctic | 62 |
CHAPTER IX | |
| Ready for the Dash to the Pole—The Commander's Arrival | 70 |
CHAPTER X | |
| Forward! March! | 75 |
CHAPTER XI | |
| [xi]Fighting up the Polar Sea—Held up by the "Big Lead" | 78 |
CHAPTER XII | |
| Pioneering the Way—Breaking Sledges | 93 |
CHAPTER XIII | |
| The Supporting-Parties Begin to Turn Back | 103 |
CHAPTER XIV | |
| Bartlett's Farthest North—His Quiet Good-By | 116 |
CHAPTER XV | |
| The Pole! | 127 |
CHAPTER XVI | |
| The Fast Trek Back to Land | 140 |
CHAPTER XVII | |
| Safe on the Roosevelt—Poor Marvin | 145 |
CHAPTER XVIII | |
| After Musk-Oxen—The Doctor's Scientific Expedition | 153 |
CHAPTER XIX | |
| [xii]The Roosevelt Starts for Home—Esquimo Villages—New Dogs and New Dog Fights | 161 |
CHAPTER XX | |
| Two Narrow Escapes—Arrival at Etah—Harry Whitney—Dr. Cook's Claims | 170 |
CHAPTER XXI | |
| Etah to New York—Coming of Mail and Reporters—Home! | 180 |
Appendix I—Notes on the Esquimos | 189 |
Appendix II—List of Smith Sound Esquimos | 196 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| matthew a. henson | Frontispiece |
| nothing | facing page |
| robert e. peary in his north pole furs | 76 |
| the four north pole esquimos | 77 |
| camp morris k. jesup at the north pole | 122 |
| matthew a. henson immediately after the sledge journey to the pole and back | 123 |
| the "roosevelt" in winter quarters at cape sheridan | 138 |
| matthew a. henson in his north pole furs, taken after his return to civilization | 139 |
THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO
By Booker T. Washington
CONTENTS
| Chapter I. | Page 3 |
First appearance of Negroes in America—Rapid increase—Conditions during Civil War—During the reconstruction.
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| Chapter II. | Page 16 |
Responsibility of the whole country for the Negro—Progress in the past—Same methods of education do not fit all cases—Proved in the case of the Southern Negro—Illustrations—Lack of money—Comparison between outlay for schools North and South—Duty of North to South.
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| Chapter III. | Page 42 |
Decadence of Southern plantation—Demoralization of Negroes natural—No home life before the war—Too much classical education at the start—Lack of practical training—Illustrations—The well-trained slaves now dead—Former plantations as industrial schools—The decayed plantation built up by a former slave—Misunderstanding of industrial education.
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| Chapter IV. | Page 67 |
The Negroes' proper use of education—Hayti, Santo Domingo, and Liberia as illustrations of the lack of practical training—Present necessity for union of all forces to further the cause of industrial education—Industrial education not opposed to the higher education—Results of practical training so far—Little or no prejudice against capable Negroes in business in the South—The Negro at first shunned labor as degrading—Hampton and Tuskegee aim to remove this feeling—The South does not oppose industrial education for the Negroes—Address to Tuskegee students setting forth the necessity of steadfastness of purpose.
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| Chapter V. | Page 106 |
The author's early life—At Hampton—The inception of the Tuskegee School in 1881—Its growth—Scope—Size at present—Expenses—Purposes—Methods—Building of the chapel—Work of the graduates—Similar schools beginning throughout the South—Tuskegee Negro Conference—The Workers' Conference—Tuskegee as a trainer of teachers.
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| Chapter VI. | Page 127 |
The Negro race in politics—Its patriotic zeal in 1776—In 1814—In the Civil War—In the Spanish War—Politics attempted too soon after freedom—Poor leaders—Two parties in the South, the blacks' and the whites'—Not necessarily opposed in interests—The Negro should give up no rights—The same tests for the restriction of the franchise should be applied alike to both blacks and whites—This is not the case—Education and the franchise—The whites must help the blacks to pure votes—Rioting and lynching only to be stopped by mutual confidence.
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| Chapter VII. | Page 157 |
Difficulty of fusion—Africa impossible as a refuge because already completely claimed by other nations—Comparison of Negro race with white—Physical condition of the Negro—Present lack of ability to organize—Weaknesses—Ability to work—Trustworthiness—Desire to rise—Obstructions put in the way of Negroes' advancement—Results of oppression—Necessity for encouragement and self-respect—Comparison of Negroes'[Pg x]position and that of the Jews—Lynching—Non-interference of the North—Increase of lynching—Statistics of numbers, races, places, causes of violence—Uselessness of lynching in preventing crime—Fairness in carrying out the laws—Increase of crime among the Negroes—Reason for it—Responsibility of both races.
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| Chapter VIII. | Page 200 |
Population—Emigration to the North—Morality North and South—Dangers: 1. incendiary advice; 2. mob violence; 3. discouragement; 4. newspaper exaggeration; 5. lack of education; 6. bad legislation—Negroes must identify with best interests of the South—Unwise missionary work—Wise missionary work—Opportunity for industrial education—The good standing of business-educated Negroes in the South—Religion and morality—Justice and appreciation coming for the Negro race as it proves itself worthy.
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TUSKEGEE AND ITS PEOPLE
By Booker T. Washington
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
| By Booker T. Washington. | |
| PART I | |
| THE SCHOOL AND ITS PURPOSES | |
| I.—PRESENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOVERNING IDEALS | 19 |
| By Emmett J. Scott, Mr. Washington's Executive Secretary. | |
| II.—RESOURCES AND MATERIAL EQUIPMENT | 35 |
| By Warren Logan, Treasurer of the School. | |
| III.—THE ACADEMIC AIMS | 56 |
| By Roscoe C. Bruce, Director of the Academic Department. | |
| IV.—WHAT GIRLS ARE TAUGHT, AND HOW | 68 |
| By Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Director of Industries for Girls. | |
| V.—HAMPTON INSTITUTE'S RELATION TO TUSKEGEE | 87 |
| By Robert R. Moton. | |
| PART II | |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY GRADUATES OF THE SCHOOL | |
| I.—A COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S STORY | 101 |
| By Isaac Fisher, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. | |
| II.—A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL'S STORY | 111 |
| By William H. Holtzclaw, of Utica, Mississippi. | |
| III.—A LAWYER'S STORY | 141 |
| By George W. Lovejoy, of Mobile, Alabama. | |
| IV.—A SCHOOL TREASURER'S STORY | 152 |
| By Martin A. Menafee, of Denmark, South Carolina. | |
| V.—THE STORY OF A FARMER | 164 |
| By Frank Reid, of Dawkins, Alabama. | |
| VI.—THE STORY OF A CARPENTER | 173 |
| By Gabriel B. Miller, of Fort Valley, Georgia. | |
| VII.—COTTON-GROWING IN AFRICA | 184 |
| By John W. Robinson, of Lome, Togo, West Africa. | |
| VIII.—THE STORY OF A TEACHER OF COOKING | 200 |
| By Mary L. Dotson, of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. | |
| IX.—A WOMAN'S WORK | 211 |
| By Cornelia Bowen, of Waugh (Mt. Meigs), Alabama. | |
| X.—UPLIFTING OF THE SUBMERGED MASSES | 224 |
| By W. J. Edwards, of Snow Hill, Alabama. | |
| XI.—A DAIRYMAN'S STORY | 253 |
| By Lewis A. Smith, of Rockford, Illinois. | |
| XII.—THE STORY OF A WHEELWRIGHT | 264 |
| By Edward Lomax, of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. | |
| XIII.—THE STORY OF A BLACKSMITH | 276 |
| By Jubie B. Bragg, of Tallahassee, Florida. | |
| XIV.—A DRUGGIST'S STORY | 285 |
| By David L. Johnston, of Birmingham, Alabama. | |
| XV.—THE STORY OF A SUPERVISOR OF MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES | 299 |
| By James M. Canty, of Institute P. O., West Virginia. | |
| XVI.—A NEGRO COMMUNITY BUILDER | 317 |
| By Russell C. Calhoun, of Eatonville, Florida. | |
| XVII.—THE EVOLUTION OF A SHOEMAKER | 338 |
| By Charles L. Marshall, of Cambria, Virginia. |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON | Frontispiece |
| EMMETT J. SCOTT | 20 |
| Mr. Washington's Executive Secretary. | |
| THE COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL BUILDING | 26 |
| WARREN LOGAN | 36 |
| Treasurer of the School | |
| THE OFFICE BUILDING IN PROCESS OF ERECTION | 50 |
| Student carpenters shown at work. | |
| ROSCOE C. BRUCE | 56 |
| Director of the Academic Department. | |
| A PORTION OF THE SCHOOL GROUNDS | 64 |
| ANOTHER PORTION OF THE SCHOOL GROUNDS | 66 |
| MRS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON | 68 |
| Director of Industries for Girls. | |
| A CLASS IN MILLINERY | 76 |
| THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL | 94 |
| Standing, left to right: P. C. Parks, Superintendent of Farm; George | |
| W. Carver, Director, Agricultural Department; J. N. Calloway, | |
| Land Extension; John H. Palmer, Registrar; Charles H. Gibson, | |
| Resident Auditor; Edgar J. Penney, Chaplain. | |
| Seated, left to right: Lloyd G. Wheeler, Business Agent; Robert R. | |
| Taylor, Director of Mechanical Industries; John H. Washington, | |
| General Superintendent of Industries; Warren Logan, Treasurer; | |
| Booker T. Washington, Principal; Miss Jane E. Clark, Dean of | |
| Woman's Department; Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Director of Industries | |
| for Girls; and Emmett J. Scott, Secretary to the Principal. | |
| The Director of the Academic Department, Roscoe C. Bruce, and the | |
| Commandant of Cadets, Major J. B. Ramsey, also members of | |
| the Executive Council, were absent when photograph was taken. | |
| THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING | 108 |
| MORNING AT THE BARNS ON THE SCHOOL FARM | 122 |
| Teams of horses and cattle ready to start for the day's work. | |
| STUDENTS PRUNING PEACH-TREES | 146 |
| A SILO ON THE FARM | 166 |
| Students filling it with fodder corn, steam-power being used. | |
| A MODEL DINING-ROOM | 208 |
| From the department where table-service is taught. | |
| THE CULTURE OF BEES | 220 |
| Students at work in the apiary. | |
| IN THE DAIRY | 254 |
| Students using separators. | |
| STUDENTS AT WORK IN THE HARNESS SHOP | 270 |
| AT THE HOSPITAL | 294 |
| A corner in the boys' ward. | |
| IN THE TIN SHOP | 300 |
| STUDENTS CANNING FRUIT | 308 |
| STARTING A NEW BUILDING | 314 |
| Student masons laying the foundation in brick. | |
| GIRLS GARDENING | 344 |
SHADOW and LIGHT
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
With Reminiscences Of The Last And Present Century.
By Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
With An Introduction By Booker T. Washington
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | 3 | Parents, School and Teacher—Foundation of the Negroes' Mechanical Knowledge—First Brick A. M. E. Church—Bishop Allen—Olive Cemetery—Harriet Smith Home—"Underground Railroad"—Incidents on the Road—William and Ellen Craft—William Box Brown. | |
| CHAPTER II | 15 | Nat Turner's Insurrection—Experience on a Maryland Plantation—First Street Cars in Philadelphia—Anti-Slavery Meetings—Amusing Incidents—Opposition of Negro Churches—Kossuth Celebration, and the Unwelcome Guest. | |
| CHAPTER III | 29 | Cinguez, the Hero of Armistead Captives—The Threshold of Man's Estate—My First Lecturing Tour with Frederic Douglass—His "Life and Times"—Pen Picture of George William Curtis of Ante-Bellum Conditions—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott, and Frances E. Harper, a Noble Band of Women—"Go Do Some Great Thing"—Journey to California—Incidents at Panama. | |
| CHAPTER IV | 40 | Arrival at San Francisco—Getting Domiciled and Seeking Work—Strike of White Employees—Lester & Gibbs, Importers—Assaulted in Our Store—First Protest from the Colored Men of California—Poll Tax. | |
| CHAPTER V | 51 | "Vigilance Committee" and Lynch Law at "Fort Gunny"—Murder of James King, of William—A Paradox to Present Conditions. | |
| CHAPTER VI | 59 | Gold Discovery in British Columbia—Incidents on Shipboard and Arrival at Victoria—National Unrest in 1859—"Irrepressible Conflict"—Garrison and Douglass—Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frances Ellen Harper—John Brown of Harper's Ferry—"Fugitive Slave Law"—Flight to Canada. | |
| CHAPTER VII | 74 | Abraham Lincoln President—Rebellion Inaugurated—Success of the Union Army—Re-Election of Lincoln—Bravery and Endurance of Negro Soldiers—Assassination of Lincoln—Lynching Denounced by Southern Governors and Statesmen—Words of Wisdom from St. Pierre de Couberton. | |
| CHAPTER VIII | 85 | My First Entry Into Political Life—Intricacies of the Ballot—Number of Negro Schools, Pupils and Amount of School Property in 1898—Amendment to Constitution and Interview with Vice-President Schuyler Colfax at Victoria, B. C.—William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., and James Russell Lowell on the Right to Vote. | |
| CHAPTER IX | 93 | Philip A. Bell, a Veteran Editor of the "Negro Press"—British Columbia, Its Early History, Efforts for Annexation to the United States—Meeting with Lady Franklin, Widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic Explorer, in 1859—Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada in 1868, the Political Issue—Queen Charlotte Island—Anthracite Coal Company—Director, Contractor and Shipper of First Cargo of Anthracite Coal on the Pacific Coast—Indians and Their Peculiarities. | |
| CHAPTER X | 107 | An Incident of Peril—My Return to the United States in 1869—Thoughts and Feelings En Route—Entered Oberlin Law College and Graduated—Visit to my Brother, J. C. Gibbs, Secretary of State of Florida—A Delegate to the National Convention of Colored Men at Charleston, S. C.—"Gratitude Expensive"—The Trend of Republican Leaders—Contribution of Southern White People for Negro Education—Views of a Leading Democrat. | |
| CHAPTER XI | 122 | President of National Convention at Nashville, Tenn., in 1876—Pen and Ink Sketch by H. V. Redfield of "Cincinnati Commercial"—Colored Leaders Desire to Fraternize for Race Protection—William H. Grey, H. B. Robinson, and J. H. Johnson, of Arkansas, Leaders and Planters—My Arrival at Little Rock, May, 1871—Reading of Local Statutes in the Law Office of Benjamin & Barnes—"Wheeler & Gibbs," Attorneys-at-Law. | |
| CHAPTER XII | 134 | Politics and Politicians—Disruption of the Republicans in Arkansas—"Minstrels and Brindle Tails"—Early Canvassing in the South, with Its Peculiarities—Ku Klux Visits—My Appointment as County Attorney and Election as Municipal Judge—Hon. John Allen, of Mississippi, His Descriptive Anecdote. | |
| CHAPTER XIII | 145 | Lowering Cloud on Righteous Rule—Comparison of Negro Progress—Sir Walter Scott in His Notes on English History—George C. Lorimer, a Noted Divine—Educational Solution of the Race Problem—Baron Russell, Lord Chief Justice of England—Civil War in Arkansas—Expulsion of Governor Baxter and Instalment of Governor Brooks at the State Houses—Stirring Episodes—"Who Shall Bell the Cat?"—Extraordinary Session of the Legislature—My Issue of a Search Warrant for the Seal of the State—Recognition of Baxter by the President. | |
| CHAPTER XIV | 158 | Arkansas Constitutional Convention and New Constitution Adopted—Augustus H. Garland Elected Governor—My Letter from Madagascar on Learning of His Demise—General Grant's Nomination in 1872 at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia—Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana—William H. Gray, of Arkansas—R. B. Elliot, of South Carolina—"Henry at Ajincourt"—Study of Obsolete Languages Versus Industrial Education—Views of Lord Rosebery, ex-Premier of England—Also of Washington Post—United States Have Supreme Advantages for the Negro. | |
| CHAPTER XV | 173 | Presidential Elector in 1876, Receiving the Highest Vote—President Hayes, His Yearnings and Accomplishments—Protest Against Lawlessness by the Negroes in State Conventions—Negro Exodus from the Southern to the Western States in 1878—Secretary William Windom's Letter—Hon J. C. Rapier, of Alabama, and Myself Appointed by Secretary Windom to Visit Western States and Report. | |
| CHAPTER XVI | 185 | Appointed by the President in 1877 Register of U. S. Lands—Robert J. Ingersoll on the Benignity of Homestead Law—General Grant's Tour Around the World and His Arrival at Little Rock, 1879—A Guest at the Banquet Given Him—Response to the Toast, "The Possibilities of American Citizenship"—Roscoe Conkling's Speech Nominating General Grant for Third Term—Bronze Medal as one of the Historic "306" at the National Convention of 1880—The Manner of General Grant's Defeat for Nomination and Garfield's Success—Character Sketches of Hon. James G. Blaine, Ingersoll's Mailed Warrior and Plumed Knight—Hon Grover Cleveland. | |
| CHAPTER XVII | 195 | Honorary Commissioner for the Colored Exhibits of the World's Exposition at New Orleans, La.—Neglected Opportunities—Important Factors Necessary to Recognition. | |
| CHAPTER XVIII | 201 | Effort of Henry Brown, of Oberlin, Ohio, to Establish "Schools of Trade"—Call for a Conference of Leading Colored Men in 1885—Industrial Fair at Pine Bluff, Ark.—Captain Thompson, of the "Capital Guards," a Colored Military Company—Meeting of Prominent Leaders at New Orleans—The Late N. W. Cuney, of Texas—Contented Benefactions from Christian Churches. | |
| CHAPTER XIX | 215 | The Reunion of General Grant's "306"—Ferdinand Havis, of Pine Bluff—Compromise and Disfranchisement—Progress of the Negro—"Decoration Day"—My Letter to the "Gazette"—Commission to Sell Lots of the Hot Springs Reservation—Twelve Years in the Land Service of the United States. | |
| CHAPTER XX | 223 | My Appointment as U. S. Consul to Tamatave, Madagascar—My Arrival in France En Route to Paris—Called on Ambassador Porter and Consul Gowdy Relative to My "Exequator"—Visited the Louvre, the Famous Gallery of Paintings—"Follies Bergere," or Variety Theater—The "Dome des Invalids" or the Tomb of the Great Napoleon—Mrs. Mason, of Arkansas and Washington, in Paris—Marseilles and "Hotel du Louvre"—Embarkation on French Ship "Pie Ho" for Madagascar—Scenes and Incidents En Route—"Port Said"—Visit to the "Mosque," Mohammedan Place of Worship. | |
| CHAPTER XXI | 236 | Suez Canal—The Red Sea—Pharaoh and His Hosts—Their Waterloo—Children of Israel—Travel by Sea—Arrival and Landing at Madagascar—Bubonic Plague—My Letter From Madagascar. | |
| CHAPTER XXII | 250 | Island of Madagascar—Origin and Character of the Inhabitants—Their Religion and Superstitions—Physical Appearance of Madagascar—A Word Painting of Antananarivo, the Capital, by Cameron—Forms of Government—Queens of Madagascar—Slavery and Forced Labor. | |
| CHAPTER XXIII | 265 | Introduction of the Christian Religion—Printing the Bible, Edict by Queen Ranavalona Against It—The New Religion "a Cloth of a Pattern She Did Not Like"—Asked the Missionaries, "Can You Make Soap?"—"Dark Days"—Persecutions and Executions for a Quarter of a Century—Examples of Christian Martyrs—Death of Queen Ranavalona—Permanent Establishment of the Christian Religion—Self-denial and Heroic Service of the Roman Catholics—Native Race Protection Committee—Forced Labor Abolished. | |
| CHAPTER XXIV | 282 | Cuba and the Philippines—Their Acquisition Under the Plea of Relief From Spanish Misrule—Aguinaldo, Leader of the Filipinos—The Fidelity and Bravery of the American Negro in the Spanish War—Attestation by Many Witnesses—Industrial Education—Othello's Occupation Gone When Polls are Closed. | |
| CHAPTER XXV | 298 | Opposition Possibly Beneficent—President McKinley's Order for Enlistment of Colored Soldiers—General Grosvenor's Tribute—Fifteen Thousand in the Spanish War—U. S. Supreme Court vs. The Negro—The Basis of Congressional Representation. | |
| CHAPTER XXVI | 306 | Departure from Madagascar—Memories—Governor General's Farewell Letter—Madagascar Branch of the Smithsonian Institute—Wild Animals, a Consul's Burden—Descriptive Letter to State Department. | |
| CHAPTER XXVII | 312 | Leave-taking, its Jollity and Sadness—Arrival at Camp Aden, Arabia—An Elysium for the Toper—Whisky Was Plenty, But the Water Was Out—Pleasant Visit to U. S. Consul Cunningham, of Knoxville, Tenn.—Arrival at Suez—My Visit to the U. S. Cruiser "New York"—The Urbanity of Captain Rogers—Suez Canal—Port Said—"Mal de Mer"—Marseilles to Paris—Across the English Channel to London. | |
| CHAPTER XXVIII | 320 | My First Visit to the Land of Wilberforce and Clarkson—Excursion on the Thames—Bank of England—Visited Towers of London—Beauchamp Tower With Its Sad Inscriptions—Arrival at New York—National Negro Business Men's League Convention at Chicago—Booker T. Washington President—Many Talented Business Men in Attendance. | |
| CHAPTER XXIX | 327 | Visit to President McKinley at Canton, Ohio—His Assassination at Buffalo—The Assassin Struck Down by James Parker—President's Death—The Nation in Tears—A Christian Statesman—A Lover of Justice—Crucial Epochs of Our Country's History, the Negro at the Fore. | |
| CHAPTER XXX | 336 | President Roosevelt—His Imperial Honesty—Ex-Governor Jones, of Alabama—Advance of Justice in Our Country—Status a Half-Century Ago—Theodore Parker's Arraignment—Eulogy by Ralph Waldo Emerson. | |
| CHAPTER XXXI | 343 | Booker T. Washington a Guest at the White House—Northern and Southern Press Comments—The Latter Not Typical of the Best Element of Southern Opinion. | |
| CHAPTER XXXII | 361 | Washington City, the American Mecca—Ante-room at the White House—The Diary of an Office Seeker—William, the Innocent—William, the Croker—Colored People of the District of Columbia—Colored Press of the District. | |
| CHAPTER XXXIII | 269 | Howard University—Public Schools—R. H. Terrell Appointed to a Judgship of the District—Unlettered Pioneers—Conclusions. |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH
Being the William Levi Bull
Lectures for the Year 1907
By Booker T. Washington And W.E. Burghardt Dubois
CONTENTS
| I. | The Economic Development of the Negro Race in Slavery By Booker T. Washington | 7 |
| II. | The Economic Development of the Negro Race since its Emancipation By Booker T. Washington | 43 |
| III. | The Economic Revolution in the South By W.E. Burghardt DuBois | 77 |
| IV. | Religion in the South By W.E. Burghardt DuBois | 123 |
| Notes to Chapters III and IV | 193 |
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
By W.E.B. Du Bois
CONTENTS
DARKWATER
Voices from within the Veil
By W.E.B. Du Bois
CONTENTS
THE QUEST OF THE SILVER FLEECE
By W.E.B. Du Bois
1911
CONTENTS
| Note from the Author | |
| One | DREAMS |
| Two | THE SCHOOL |
| Three | MISS MARY TAYLOR |
| Four | TOWN |
| Five | ZORA |
| Six | COTTON |
| Seven | THE PLACE OF DREAMS |
| Eight | MR. HARRY CRESSWELL |
| Nine | THE PLANTING |
| Ten | MR. TAYLOR CALLS |
| Eleven | THE FLOWERING OF THE FLEECE |
| Twelve | THE PROMISE |
| Thirteen | MRS. GREY GIVES A DINNER |
| Fourteen | LOVE |
| Fifteen | REVELATION |
| Sixteen | THE GREAT REFUSAL |
| Seventeen | THE RAPE OF THE FLEECE |
| Eighteen | THE COTTON CORNER |
| Nineteen | THE DYING OF ELSPETH |
| Twenty | THE WEAVING OF THE SILVER FLEECE |
| Twenty-one | THE MARRIAGE MORNING |
| Twenty-two | MISS CAROLINE WYNN |
| Twenty-three | THE TRAINING OF ZORA |
| Twenty-four | THE EDUCATION OF ALWYN |
| Twenty-five | THE CAMPAIGN |
| Twenty-six | CONGRESSMAN CRESSWEL |
| Twenty-seven | THE VISION OF ZORA |
| Twenty-eight | THE ANNUNCIATION |
| Twenty-nine | A MASTER OF FATE |
| Thirty | THE RETURN OF ZORA |
| Thirty-one | A PARTING OF WAYS |
| Thirty-two | ZORA'S WAY |
| Thirty-three | THE BUYING OF THE SWAMP |
| Thirty-four | THE RETURN OF ALWYN |
| Thirty-five | THE COTTON MILL |
| Thirty-six | THE LAND |
| Thirty-seven | THE MOB |
| Thirty-eight | ATONEMENT |
THE NEGRO
By W.E.B. Du Bois
CONTENTS
| I | AFRICA |
| II | THE COMING OF BLACK MEN |
| III | ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT |
| IV | THE NIGER AND ISLAM |
| V | GUINEA AND CONGO |
| VI | THE GREAT LAKES AND ZYMBABWE |
| VII | THE WAR OF RACES AT LAND'S END |
| VIII | AFRICAN CULTURE |
| IX | THE TRADE IN MEN |
| X | THE WEST INDIES AND LATIN AMERICA |
| XI | THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES |
| XII | THE NEGRO PROBLEMS |
| SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING |
