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Booker T. Washington. The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe
The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I HUNTING THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN
CHAPTER II THE MAN AT THE BOTTOM IN LONDON
CHAPTER III FROM PETTICOAT LANE TO SKIBO CASTLE
CHAPTER IV FIRST IMPRESSION OF LIFE AND LABOUR ON THE CONTINENT
CHAPTER V POLITICS AND RACES
CHAPTER VI STRIKES AND FARM LABOUR IN ITALY AND HUNGARY
CHAPTER VII NAPLES AND THE LAND OF THE EMIGRANT
CHAPTER VIII THE LABOURER AND THE LAND IN SICILY
CHAPTER IX WOMEN AND THE WINE HARVEST IN SICILY
CHAPTER X THE CHURCH, THE PEOPLE, AND THE MAFIA
CHAPTER XI CHILD LABOUR AND THE SULPHUR MINES
CHAPTER XII FIUME, BUDAPEST, AND THE IMMIGRANT
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CHAPTER XIII CRACOW AND THE POLISH JEW
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CHAPTER XIV A POLISH VILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER XV A RUSSIAN BORDER VILLAGE
CHAPTER XVI THE WOMEN WHO WORK IN EUROPE
CHAPTER XVII THE ORGANIZATION OF COUNTRY LIFE IN DENMARK
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CHAPTER XVIII RECONSTRUCTING THE LIFE OF THE LABOURER IN LONDON
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CHAPTER XIX JOHN BURNS AND THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN IN LONDON
CHAPTER XX THE FUTURE OF THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN
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Booker T. Washington, Robert Ezra Park
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I know no class among the Negroes in America, however, with whom I could compare the man at the bottom in England. Whatever one may say of the Negro in America, he is not, as a rule, a beggar. It is very rarely that any one sees a black hand stretched out for alms. One does see, to be sure, too many idle and loafing Negroes standing on the street corners and around the railway stations in the South, but the Negro is not, as a rule, a degenerate. If he is at the bottom in America, it is not because he has gone backward and sunk down, but because he has never risen.
Another thing in regard to the Negro: although he is frequently poor, he is never without hope and a certain joy in living. No hardship he has yet encountered, either in slavery or in freedom, has robbed the Negro of the desire to live. The race constantly grew and increased in slavery, and it has considerably more than doubled in freedom. There are some people among the members of my race who complain about the hardships which the Negro suffers, but none of them yet, so far as I know, has ever recommended "race suicide" as a solution of the race problem.
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