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The Negro in the South (Paperback)
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WE are now, I think, far enough removed from the period of slavery
to be able to study the influence of that institution objectively
rather than subjectively. Surely if any Negro who was a part of the
institution itself can do so, the remaining portion of the American
people ought to be able to do so, whether they live at the North or
at the South. My subject naturally leads me to a discussion of the
Negro as he was in slavery. We must all acknowledge, whatever else
resulted from slavery that, first of all, it was the economic
element involved that brought the Negro to America, and it was
largely this consideration that held the race in slavery for a
period of about 245 years. But, in this discussion, I am not to
consider the economic value of the Negro as a slave, as such, but
only the influence of his industrial training while in slavery in
the development of his moral and religious life. In my opinion, it
requires no little effort on the part of a man who was once himself
a slave to be able to admit this. If any Negro who was a part of
the institution of slavery itself can so far rid himself of the
prejudices of the same, it seems to me other people, living in
whatever section, should be able to do so. I have been a slave once
in my life--a slave in body. But I long since resolved that no
inducement and no influence would ever make me a slave in soul, in
my love for humanity, and in my search for truth. At the same time
slaves were being brought to the shores of Virginia from their
native land, Africa, the woods of Virginia were swarming with
thousands of another dark-skinned race. The question naturally
arises: Why did the importers of Negro slaves go to the trouble and
expense of going thousands of miles for a dark-skinned people to
hew wood and draw water for the whites, when they had right among
them a people of another race who could have answered the purpose?
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