Through Afro-America: An English Reading of the Race Problem

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Archer William. Through Afro-America: An English Reading of the Race Problem

Through Afro-America: An English Reading of the Race Problem

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART I. SOUTHWARD HO!

I. ON THE THRESHOLD

II. THE BLACK MAN’S PARADISE

III. THE NIGHTMARE OF THE SOUTH

IV. RHETORIC IN LOUISVILLE

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VI. TWO LEADERS

VII. A WHITE TYPE AND A BLACK

VIII. IN THE BLACK BELT

IX. EDUCATION AND THE DEMONSTRATION FARM

X. NEW ORLEANS

XI. CRIME-SLAVERY AND DEBT-SERFDOM[27]

XII. AN INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY

XIII. HAMPTON: AN AFTERMATH

XV. THE CITY OF A HUNDRED HILLS

XVI. PROHIBITION

XVII. THE NEGRO HOME AND THE NEGRO CHURCH

XVIII. CHARLESTON

XIX. THE FRINGE OF FLORIDA

PART II. THE PROBLEM FACED

II. THE PROBLEM FACED

Numbers and Vitality of the Negro

Four Possibilities: II. The Atlanta Compromise

The Crux of the Problem

Four Possibilities: III. Amalgamation

The Races not Equal

The Case for the Mulatto

A Biological Argument

Four Possibilities: IV. Segregation

Back to Africa?

A Negro State

I. THE AMERICAN IN CUBA

II. A GAME FOR GODS

III. A FRAGMENT OF FAIRYLAND

IV. THE PANAMA CANAL

INDEX

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William Archer

Published by Good Press, 2021

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This I find to be essentially, if not quite universally, true. What is the inference? Is it not at bottom an instinct of self-preservation that spurs the South to inhumanity—an unreasoning, or half-reasoned, panic fear of racial submergence? There are many other factors in the situation; but I think, beyond all doubt, this is one.

“You can see any day on the street-cars,” said my host, “the embitterment of feeling. Formerly a black man would always rise and give his seat to a white woman; now he aggressively refrains from doing so.”

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