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Title: The Future of the American Negro

Author: Booker T. Washington

Release Date: September 2, 2008 [EBook #26507]

Language: English

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THE FUTURE OF

THE AMERICAN NEGRO

Booker T. Washington

Boston
Small, Maynard & Company
1900

_Copyright, 1899,
By Small, Maynard & Company_
(_Incorporated_)

_Entered at Stationers' Hall_

_First Edition (2,000 copies), November, 1899_
_Second Edition (2,000 copies), February, 1900_

_Press of
George H. Ellis, Boston, U.S.A._

[Illustration: Booker T. Washington.]

PREFACE.

_In giving this volume to the public, I deem it fair to say that I
have yielded to the oft-repeated requests that I put in some more
definite and permanent form the ideas regarding the Negro and his
future which I have expressed many times on the public platform and
through the public press and magazines._

_I make grateful acknowledgment to the "Atlantic Monthly" and
"Appleton's Popular Science Monthly" for their kindness in granting
permission for the use of some part of articles which I have at
various times contributed to their columns._

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.

TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE,
TUSKEGEE, ALA., October 1, 1899.

CONTENTS.

Chapter I. Page 3

First appearance of Negroes in America--Rapid
increase--Conditions during Civil War--During the reconstruction.

Chapter II. Page 16

Responsibility of the whole co