Identifier: historyofuniteds5andr (find matches)
Title: History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-1917 James, James Alton, 1864-1962
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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markable negro, but as a remarkable man.Born poor as could be and fighting his wayto an education against every conceivableobstacle, he had at the age of forty dis-tinguished himself as a business organizer,as an educator, as a writer, and as a publicspeaker. His modesty, discretion, and in-dustry were phenomenal, at once constitut-ing him a leader of his race and renderinghis leadership valuable. He eschewed poli-tics, avoided in everything the demagoguesways, and never spoke ill of the whites, noteven of Southern whites. But, unfortunately, a great negro such asWashington stood like a mountain in amarsh, sporadic and solitary. Save in West Virginia, Florida, and theblack belts the whites at the South increasedmore swiftly than the blacks. Certain of what 1895) XEUEST DIXIE 167 Malthus called the positive checks uponpopulation—viz., diseases, mainly syphilis,typhoid, and consumption—decimated thenegroes everywhere. Colored populationdrifted from the country to cities, which prob-
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The Atlanta Exposition. Entrance to the Art Building. ably accounted for the fact that in 1890 morenegroes lived in the North than ever before.In the South itself, on the other hand, themovement of colored population was south-ward and westward, from the highlands tothe lowlands, so that Kentucky, along withwestern Virginia, northeastern Mississippi, i68 EXPAXSION (1S95 and rural parts of Maryland, North Ala-bama, and eastern Virginia, had, in 1890,fewer colored inhabitants than ten yearsprevious. These confusing data explain why fewwere rash enough to prophesy the fate ofthe American negro. Such predictions aswere heard, were, in the main, little hope-ful. Colonization abroad was no resource.In 1895 the International Immigration So-ciety shipped 300 negroes to Liberia, and in1897 the Central Labor Union of NewYork 311 more, but no movement of thekind could be set going. In fact, the onecertainty touching the American negroesfuture was that they would remain in theUnited States. From

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