Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His FutureHaygood's Our Brothers in Black is a work that concentrates on how best to prepare the freed slaves for full participation in the American community. Noting African American community life, their relationship to the land and to their religion, he advocates education, missionary work and the establishment of black colleges. The book begins by discussing blacks' educational and economic shortcomings but discredits the popular idea that they should be returned to Africa. Haygood gives a detailed study of Lincoln and the motives for the emancipation but is focused on solving the present problem rather than condemning its existence. |
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... heart , specimens of the work done by negro boys and girls in some of the public schools of the city of Atlanta . They were every whit as good as the best done in the white schools of similar grade . And thousands more of them will ...
... heart , specimens of the work done by negro boys and girls in some of the public schools of the city of Atlanta . They were every whit as good as the best done in the white schools of similar grade . And thousands more of them will ...
Page 50
... heart and life a right conscience in the use of his freedom . This lesson a few of them -- very few , I fear - have learned . The majority accept the fact , in a blind sort of way , as deliverance from restraint , as li- cense to do ...
... heart and life a right conscience in the use of his freedom . This lesson a few of them -- very few , I fear - have learned . The majority accept the fact , in a blind sort of way , as deliverance from restraint , as li- cense to do ...
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... hearts . They cannot realize the solemn significance of their free- dom so long as they forget their great Deliverer in their over consideration of the instrument he em- ployed . The emancipated negro can never have the right conscience ...
... hearts . They cannot realize the solemn significance of their free- dom so long as they forget their great Deliverer in their over consideration of the instrument he em- ployed . The emancipated negro can never have the right conscience ...
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... heart I have always supposed to be right . " As to the policy I seem to be pursuing , as you say , I have not meant to leave any one in doubt . " I would save the Union . I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution . The ...
... heart I have always supposed to be right . " As to the policy I seem to be pursuing , as you say , I have not meant to leave any one in doubt . " I would save the Union . I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution . The ...
Page 78
... heart for the work of restoration . We find ourselves face to face with as difficult a problem as was ever com- mitted to any people of any age . Take any view possible of the history of the emancipation and enfranchisement of the ...
... heart for the work of restoration . We find ourselves face to face with as difficult a problem as was ever com- mitted to any people of any age . Take any view possible of the history of the emancipation and enfranchisement of the ...
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Page 42 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 66 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 193 - And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, The widow, and the fatherless, And that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, Saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 59 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 193 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 194 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 194 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ...
Page 26 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Page 132 - And he learns well and rapidly. I want no proof beyond what I have seen with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears.
Page 49 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...