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The Future of the American Negro

Booker T. Washington · 1899-10-01 (preface/publishing context); composed in the late 1890s primary

passage 2 of 75 · Chapter I. Page 3

Responsibility of the whole country 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.

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.

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The Future of the American Negro · Booker T. Washington · 1899