s C. Williams of the Bordentown Industrial School. He brought
forward valuable statistics out of his own experience as a teacher in
this field and presented several suggestions and plans for the
promotion of this work. There followed some discussion of an informing
nature by Dr. I. Garland Penn, Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal
Church Board of Education for Negroes, and by Dr. W. Y. Bell, who
spoke of his researches in the sources bearing on the history of the
Negro in Africa.

The Conference closed with an evening session at the Mother A. M. E.
Zion Church where addresses were delivered by Dr. I. Garland Penn and
Dr. C. G. Woodson. The address of Dr. Penn dealt primarily with the
Negro as a factor in church history. Beginning with the early
struggles of the denominations and their relations to the Negroes, Dr.
Penn enlightened the audience on facts which are not generally known
to the public. He closed his informing address with the expression of
faith in the importance of the church as a factor in the progress of
the Negro. The address by the Director had to do primarily with the
history of the Negro by cycles, showing the varying attitude of the
white man toward the Negro and the successful efforts of the Negroes
to rise in the midst of trying difficulties and to convince the world
of their worth. On the whole, this first Spring Conference was a
success and justified itself as an innovation.

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The Quadrennial Address of the Bishops of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church to the Fourteenth Session of the General Conference,
held in St. Louis on the 3d of May, contains not only the information
bearing on the church but a valuable retrospect as to the conditions
among the Negroes after the World War. Among other topics are
mentioned racial retrospect, race prejudice and race superiority, the
aftermath of the war, the church and world conditions, and the
reaction of white Christianity to lawlessness.

THE JOURNAL

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NEGRO HISTORY

VOL. VII--OCTOBER, 1922--NO. 4

BRAZILIAN AND UNITED STATES SLAVERY COMPARED

A GENERAL VIEW

Whether the Teutonic races are superior to the Latin races is a mooted
question, subject to prejudiced points of view. However, there is no
doubt that there actually exists a great difference in the
institutions of religion, law, language, customs, fashions, and moral
precepts between, let us say, the Anglo-Saxon and the Portu