Category: History - American
The following pages attempt a discussion of the most important question that is likely to engage the attention of the American People for many years and even generations to come. Compared with the vital matter of pure Blood, all other matters, as of tariff, of currency, of sub...
The following pages attempt a discussion of the most important question that is likely to engage the attention of the American People for many years and even generations to come...
2. Chapter One in its title strikes the keynote. In the following pagesthe main issue is stated, the position of the South is defined, and her lines of defence are indicated. But there is no attempt to justify the fundamental assumption in the Sout...
3. CHAPTER ONEIn the controversy precipitated by the luncheon at the White House, and embittered by more recent procedures, the attitude of the South presents an element of the pathetic. The...
4. CHAPTER TWOIn the foregoing discussion, it did not seem well to interrupt the current of thought by any proof of the assumed inferiority of the Negro, or of the degeneracy induced by the i...
5. CHAPTER THREEIn the foregoing chapter we have propounded and answered the question as to the native inferiority of the Black race; and now the query arises, What more? Have we not already sa...
6. CHAPTER FOURBy far the ablest plea yet made for the "backward races" is to be found in the address of Dr. Franz Boas on Human Faculty as Determined by Race, published (at least, printed) in...
7. CHAPTER FIVEThe reader may find the foregoing discussion convincing; we think the unprejudiced reader will almost surely find it so, and yet he may not find it satisfactory. For he may urge...
8. CHAPTER SIXIn the foregoing chapters it is only by way of exception that there has been made any formal use of statistical data, or any reference to scientific authorities;--in fact, there...