The Negro race, retrospective and prospective, or, The Negro's past and present, and his future prospects

Taylor, an African American Baptist minister from Johnstown, Pa., writes to encourage African Americans to redeem themselves from the blight of slavery. He discusses the black race from antiquity to slavery and emancipation in the U.S. and sees education as the key to improvement of the race, especially in the South. He concludes with an overview of African American economic and political achievements in the U.S. 25 years out of slavery.
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LC copy has inscription in ink on t.p.: 1890, and pencilled on t.p.: 27.5.
Copyright deposit (32968); Nov. 17, 1890.