Charles Dudley Warner, co-author with Mark Twain of The Gilded Age, surveys the condition of African Americans a generation after emancipation, condemning slavery as unjust and uneconomic but treating Black Americans as a race still to be trained for citizenship. He weighs industrial against higher education and the role of Northern philanthropy in the South.
A revealing document of turn-of-the-century white liberal racism, best read alongside Du Bois and Washington. Download the free EPUB.