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The Negro in the South
_His Economic Progress in Relation to
His Moral and Religious Development_
Being the William Levi Bull
Lectures for the Year 1907
By
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
_Of the Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial Institute_
and
W.E. BURGHARDT DuBOIS
_Of the Atlanta University_
[Illustration]
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1907, by
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
_Published, June, 1907_
_All rights reserved_
Printed in U.S.A.
The Letter Establishing the Lectureship
Bishop Whitaker presented the Letter of Endowment of the Lectureship
on Christian Sociology from Rev. William L. Bull as follows:
For many years it has been my earnest desire to found a Lectureship on
Christian Sociology, meaning thereby the application of Christian
principles to the Social, Industrial, and Economic problems of the
time, in my Alma Mater, the Philadelphia Divinity School. My object in
founding this Lectureship is to secure the free, frank, and full
consideration of these subjects, with special reference to the
Christian aspects of the question involved, which have heretofore, in
my opinion, been too much neglected in such discussion. It would seem
that the time is now ripe and the moment an auspicious one for the
establishment of this Lectureship, at least tentatively.
After a trial of three years, I again make the offer, as in my letter
of January 1, 1901, to continue these Lectures for a period of three
years, with the hope that they may excite such an interest,
particularly among the undergraduates of the Divinity School, that I
shall be justified, with the approval of the authorities of the
Divinity School, in placing the Lectureship on a more permanent
foundation.
I herewith pledge myself to contribute the sum of six hundred dollars
annually, for a period of three years, to the payment of a lecturer on
Christian Sociology, whose duty it shall be to deliver a course of not
less than four lectures to the students of the Divinity School,
either at the school or elsewhere, as may be deemed most advisable, on
the application of Christian principles to the Social, Industrial, and
Economic problems and needs of the times; the said lecturer to be
appointed annually by a committee of five members: the Bishop of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania; the Dean of the Divinity School; a member of
the Board of Overseers, who shall at the same time be an Alumnus; and
two others, one of whom shall be myself and the other chosen by the
preceding four members of the committee.
Furthermore, if it shall be deemed desirable that the Lectures shall
be published, I pledge myself to the additional payment of from one to
two hundred dollars for such purpose.
To secure a full, frank, and free consideration of the questions
involved, it is my desire that the opportunity shall be given from
time to time to the representatives of each school of economic thought
to express their views in these Lectures.
The only restriction I wish placed on the lecturer is that he shall be
a believer in the moral teachings and principles of the Christian
Religion as the true solvent of our Social, Industrial, and Economic
problems. Of course, it is my intention that a new lecturer shall be
appointed by the committee each year, who shall deliver the course of
Lectures for the ensuing year.
WILLIAM LEVI BULL.
Contents
I. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY 7
_By Booker T. Washington_
II. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE SINCE ITS
EMANCIPATION 43
_By Booker T. Washington_
III. THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH 77
_By W.E. Burghardt DuBois_
IV. RELIGION IN THE SOUTH 123
_By W.E. Burghardt DuBois_
NOTES TO CHAPTERS III AND IV 193
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CHAPTER I
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY
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