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Chapter I.  Page 
First appearance of Negroes in America
—Rapid increase—Conditions during
Civil War—During the reconstruction. 
Chapter II.  Page  16 
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. 
Chapter III.  Page  42 
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. 
Chapter IV.  Page  67 
The Negroes' proper use of education—
Hayti, Santo Domingo, and Liberia as
illustrations of the lack of practical training
—Present necessity for union of all
forces to further the cause of industrial
education—Industrial education not opposed
to the higher education—Results
of practical training so far—Little or no
prejudice against capable Negroes in business
in the South—The Negro at first
shunned labor as degrading—Hampton
and Tuskegee aim to remove this feeling
—The South does not oppose industrial
education for the Negroes—Address to
Tuskegee students setting forth the necessity
of steadfastness of purpose. 
Chapter V.  Page  106 
The author's early life—At Hampton
—The inception of the Tuskegee School
in 1881—Its growth—Scope—Size at
present—Expenses—Purposes—Methods
—Building of the chapel—Work
of the graduates—Similar schools beginning
throughout the South—Tuskegee
Negro Conference—The Workers'
Conference—Tuskegee as a trainer of
teachers. 
Chapter VI.  Page  127 
The Negro race in politics—Its patriotic
zeal in 1776—In 1814—In the
Civil War—In the Spanish War—Politics
attempted too soon after freedom—
Poor leaders—Two parties in the South,
the blacks' and the whites'—Not necessarily
opposed in interests—The Negro
should give up no rights—The same
tests for the restriction of the franchise
should be applied alike to both blacks
and whites—This is not the case—Education
and the franchise—The whites
must help the blacks to pure votes—Rioting
and lynching only to be stopped by
mutual confidence. 
Chapter VII.  Page  157 
Difficulty of fusion—Africa impossible
as a refuge because already completely
claimed by other nations—Comparison
of Negro race with white—Physical
condition of the Negro—Present lack of
ability to organize—Weaknesses—Ability
to work—Trustworthiness—Desire
to rise—Obstructions put in the way of
Negroes' advancement—Results of oppression
—Necessity for encouragement
and self-respect—Comparison of Negroes'
 
position and that of the Jews—
Lynching—Non-interference of the
North—Increase of lynching—Statistics
of numbers, races, places, causes of
violence—Uselessness of lynching in
preventing crime—Fairness in carrying
out the laws—Increase of crime among
the-Negroes—Reason for it—Responsibility
of both races. 
Chapter VIII.  Page  200 
Population—Emigration to the North—
Morality North and South—Dangers:
I. incendiary advice; 2. mob violence; 3.
discouragement; 4. newspaper exaggeration;
5. lack of education; 6. bad legislation
—Negroes must identify with best
interests of the South—Unwise missionary
work—Wise missionary work:—Opportunity
for industrial education—The
good standing of business-educated Negroes
in the South—Religion and morality
—Justice and appreciation coming for
the Negro race as it proves itself worthy.