Research Catalog

Title

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 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and W.E. Burghardt Du Bois of the Atlanta University.

Author

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Publication

• Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs & Company, [1907]
• ©1907

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Additional Authors

• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Philadelphia Divinity School.
• George W. Jacobs & Co., publisher.

Description

222 pages; 20 cm

Summary

Four lectures given as part of an endowed Lectureship on Christian Sociology at Philadelphia Divinity School. Washington's two lectures concern the economic development of African Americans both during and after slavery. He argues that slavery enabled the freedman to become a success, and that economic and industrial development improves both the moral and the religious life of African Americans. Du Bois argues that slavery hindered the South in its industrial development, leaving an agriculture-based economy out of step with the world around it. His second lecture argues that Southern white religion has been broadly unjust to slaves and former slaves, and how in so doing it has betrayed its own hypocrisy.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• African Americans > Southern States > Religion
• African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions
• Black author
• Southern States > Economic conditions
• African Americans > Vocational education > Southern States
• Slavery > Southern States
• African Americans > Southern States > Economic conditions

Note

• "Copyright, 1907, by George W. Jacobs & Company. Published, June, 1907. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A."--verso of title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222)

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The economic development of the negro race in slavery / by Booker T. Washington -- ch. 2. The economic development of the negro race since its emancipation / by Booker T. Washington -- ch. 3. The economic revolution in the South / by W.E. Burghardt DuBois -- ch. 4. Religions in the South / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- Notes to chapters 3 and 4.

Call Number

Sc 309.173-W (Washington, B. T. Negro in the South)

LCCN

07021310

OCLC

68963859

Author

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, author.

Title

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 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and W.E. Burghardt Du Bois of the Atlanta University.

Publisher

Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs & Company, [1907]

Copyright Date

©1907

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222)

Provenance

Copy in Sc 309.173-W (copy 2) (accession no. B593728) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, author.

Philadelphia Divinity School.

George W. Jacobs & Co., publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 309.173-W (Washington, B. T. Negro in the South)