When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams

Have sought to make clear the present relations of the sons of master and man. Venturing now into deeper detail, I have in two chapters studied the struggles of the massed millions of the black peasantry, and in another Then, in two other chapters I have sketched in swift outline the two worlds within and without the Veil, and thus have come to the central problem of training men for life. In a third chapter I have pointed out the slow rise of personal leadership, and criticised candidly the leader who bears the chief burden of his race to-day. First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath. I have sought here to sketch, in vague, uncertain outline, the spiritual world in which ten thousand thousand Americans live and strive. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there. Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader for the problem of the HEREIN lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century.

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When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams