| | 1 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Case of the Negro  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ALL attempts to settle the question of the Negro in the South
by his removal from this country have so far failed, and I think
that they are likely to fail. The next census will probably show
that we have nearly ten million black people in the United States,
about eight millions of whom are in the Southern states. In fact,
we have almost a nation within a nation. The Negro population in
the United States lacks but two millions of being as large as the
whole population of Mexico, and is nearly twice as large as that of
Canada. Our black people equal in number the combined populations
of Switzerland, Greece, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, Uraguay [sic],
Santo Domingo, Paraguay, and Costa Rica. When we consider, in
connection with these facts, that the race has doubled itself since
its freedom, and is still increasing, it hardly seems possible for
any one to take seriously any scheme of emigration from America as
a method of solution. At most, even if the government were to
provide the means, but a few hundred thousand could be transported
each year. The yearly increase in population would more than
likely overbalance the number transported. Even if it did not, the
time required to get rid of the Negro by this method would perhaps
be fifty or seventy-five years. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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