Future : containing great lecturers on the future of the colored race, Nat Turner's insurrection, the new insurrection

Burks, an Indiana lawyer, provides social criticism from a black perspective. He gives three lectures here. First, the situation of the black race - its morality, its faults, the issue of African American emigration, with an especially interesting essay on why American blacks are not Negroes. Second, a short speech on Nat Turner's insurrection. Third, the evils of contemporary society, including problems in the South, lack of educational opportunity, intemperance, etc.
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Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.