Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future.
A plea for justice for blacks in the New South
1883 edition. “One of the few moderate (although paternalistic and segregationist) pleas for justice to blacks in the New South, by a Methodist bishop and president of Emory University who would become an agent of the Slater Fund for aid to black education. Willingham & Harwell 74: ‘His tone is sensible in contrast to the paranoia of the times.’” —Jenkins 234:430.
Description: Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future.
Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House. New York: Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe (1881) 1883. 253pp. Small 8vo. Dark brown ornamental and stamped cloth. Light surface rubbing to boards; front free endpaper partially splitting near hinge, one leaf with former corner crease line; an otherwise tight and very good copy.
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