![]() ![]() I need hardly add that none of these persons are in any way responsible for the views herein expressed. This book seeks to tell and interpret these twenty years of fateful history with especial reference to the efforts and experiences of the Negroes themselves.įor the opportunity of making this study, I have to thank the Trustees of the Rosenwald Fund, who made me a grant covering two years the Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who allowed me time for the writing the President of Atlanta University, who gave me help and asylum during the completion of the work and the Trustees of the Carnegie Fund who contributed toward the finishing of the manuscript. ![]() Particularly interesting for students of human culture is the sudden freeing of these black folk in the Nineteenth Century and the attempt, through them, to reconstruct the basis of American democracy from 1860-1880. The story of transplanting millions of Africans to the new world, and of their bondage for four centuries, is a fascinating one. ![]()
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