If they were able to-day to produce the articles in common use as
boots, shoes, hats, cotton and woolen goods, made-up clothing and
enterprises such as farming, mining, forging, carpentering, etc.,
negroes would find a ready sale in preference to all others, because
of its being a race enterprise, doing what no other corporation does,
giving employment to members of the race as tradesmen, and teaching
others to become skilled workers. These enterprises should be started
in the southern, northern and western states, where the negro
population will warrant such an undertaking.
I would suggest "A School History of the Negro Race" to be placed in
our public schools as a text book. The general tone of all the
histories taught in our public schools points to the inferiority of
the negro and the superiority of the white. It must be indeed a
stimulus to any people to be able to refer to their ancestry as
distinguished in deeds of valor, and particularly so to the colored
people. With what eyes can the white child look upon the colored child
and the colored child look upon himself, when they have completed the
assigned course of United States history, and in it found not one word
of credit, not one word of favorable comment for even one among the
millions of his fore-parents who have lived through nearly three
centuries of his country's history.
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