Sunday, March 27, 2005

The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States

Excerpt:

PART II. The Moral and religious condition of the Negroes

I. Disadvantages to be encountered in prosecuting an inquiry into the Moral and Religious Condition of the Negroes in the United States, . . . . . 101

1. The First Disadvantage.--Our intimate knowledge of the degraded moral character of the Negroes . . . . . 103

2 The Second Disadvantage.--Our difference of color and superior relations in society, . . . . . 104

3. The Third Disadvantage.--Our latent, and in many instances, manifest, disinclination to the full disclosure of the Moral and Religious Condition of the Negroes, . . . . . 106

4. The Fourth Disadvantage.--The difficulty of obtaining an insight into the Negro Character, . . . . . 110
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