diminishing.

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De Tocqueville, more than a century ago, declared that he was obliged to confess that he did not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern States. Thomas Jefferson pronounced the same view, and declared that they must be separated. In the light of modern conditions, it would appear as though, unless conditions change, these views may be verified. It may even be possibly true, as some believe, that, with the present increase of the two races going on, whether the Negro race be educated and enlightened or not, the most dangerous phases of the problem would still exist in the mere continuance together of the two races.

It is with the hope of throwing some light on this great Question that these studies have been made.

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[Pg xiii]

CONTENTS

Slavery and the Old Relation Between the Southern Whites and Blacks

Some of Its Difficulties and Fallacies

Its Present Condition and Aspect, as Shown by Statistics

The Lynching of Negroes—Its Cause and Its Prevention

The Partial Disfranchisement of the Negro

The Old-time Negro

The Race Question

Of the Solution of the Question

 THE NEGRO: THE SOUTHERNER’S PROBLEM 

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