untry for the Negro--Progress in
the past--Same methods of education do not fit all cases--Proved
in the case of the Southern Negro--Illustrations--Lack of
money--Comparison between outlay for schools North and
South--Duty of North to South.

Chapter III. Page 42

Decadence of Southern plantation--Demoralization of Negroes
natural--No home life before the war--Too much classical
education at the start--Lack of practical training--
Illustrations--The well-trained slaves now dead--Former
plantations as industrial schools--The decayed plantation built
up by a former slave--Misunderstanding of industrial education.

Chapter IV. Page 67

The Negroes' proper use of education--Hayti, Santo Domingo, and
Liberia as illustrations of the lack of practical training--
Present necessity for union of all forces to further
the cause of industrial education--Industrial education not
opposed to the higher education--Results of practical training so
far--Little or no prejudice against capable Negroes in business
in the South--The Negro at first shunned labor as degrading--
Hampton and Tuskegee aim to remove this feeling--The South
does not oppose industrial education for the Negroes--
Address to Tuskegee students setting forth the necessity
of steadfastness of purpose.

Chapter V. Page 106

The author's early life--At Hampton--The inception of the
Tuskegee School in 1881--Its growth--Scope--Size at
present--Expenses--Purposes--Methods--Building of the
chapel--Work of the graduates--Similar schools beginning
throughout the South--Tuskegee Negro Conference--The Workers'
Conference--Tuskegee as a trainer of teachers.

Chapter VI. Page 127

The Negro race in politics--Its patriotic zeal in 1776--In
1814--In the Civil War--In the Spanish War--Politics attempted
too soon after freedom--Poor leaders--Two parties in the South,
the blacks' and the whites'--Not necessarily opposed in
interests--The Negro should give up no rights--The same tests for
the restriction of the franchise should be applied alike to both
blacks and whites--This is not the case--Education and the
franchise--The whites must help the blacks to pure votes--Rioting
and lynching only to be st