Twentieth Century Negro Literature

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Various. Twentieth Century Negro Literature

Twentieth Century Negro Literature

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THE EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHY, BY WALTER I. LEWIS

TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE

TOPIC I

TOPIC II

TOPIC III

TOPIC IV

TOPIC V

TOPIC VI

TOPIC VII

TOPIC VIII

TOPIC IX

TOPIC X

TOPIC XI

TOPIC XII

TOPIC XIII

TOPIC XIV

TOPIC XV

TOPIC XVI

TOPIC XVII

TOPIC XVIII

FOOTNOTES:

TOPIC XIX

TOPIC XX

TOPIC XXI

TOPIC XXII

TOPIC XXIII

TOPIC XXIV

TOPIC XXV

TOPIC XXVI

TOPIC XXVII

TOPIC XXVIII

TOPIC XXIX

TOPIC XXX

TOPIC XXXI

FOOTNOTES:

TOPIC XXXII

TOPIC XXXIII

TOPIC XXXIV

TOPIC XXXV

TOPIC XXXVI

TOPIC XXXVII

TOPIC XXXVIII

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Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

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It is further stated that the system gave him Christianity. Did it give him piety? Could it give him morality in the highest sense of these terms?

Constantine could march the refractory Saxons to the banks of a stream and give them their option between Christianity and the sword, but the haughty monarch soon found that a religion forced in this peremptory and wholesale fashion did not change the moral nature of the soldier; and we submit that Christianity, language, and the arts of civilized life, absorbed amidst the debasing influences of a cruel and infamous bondage could not be productive of a harmonious development of body, mind and soul; of strong moral and intellectual fiber; or of ideas of the dignity of labor; of habits of thrift, economy, the careful expenditure of time and money; or knowledge of the intimate relationship of these two great factors in the process of civilization. These are results attained only where the rights of manhood and womanhood are acknowledged and respected. The lack of these results or basic impulses to advancement represent defects in the Negro character, preventing a more rapid development in the nineteenth century and directly traceable to his enslaved state; and the origin or cause, the growth and subsequent development of these, and other defects, must be taken into consideration before the Negro is stamped as the greatest criminal on earth, wholly irredeemable; before he is condemned in wholesale manner for not having made more rapid strides toward advanced civilization in little more than one generation of freedom. Indeed, it speaks well for the intrinsic merit of the race, that although public opinion freely admits that the natural outcome of bondage is a cowardly, thieving, brutal, or abject specimen of humanity, even in the darkest hours of slavery, there were many, many, high-born souls who, if necessary, at the price of life itself, maintained their integrity, rose superior to their surroundings, taught these same lofty sentiments to others.

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