Excerpt from Two Addresses on Negro Education in the South, Vol. 5 Some men of fine intelligence are too ready to despair of the benefits, the moral and intellectual advantages of education to the negro race. I am con strained to believe that these men are blinded by race prejudice, or suffering from a restricted personal narrowness. Within one generation of slavery, with no adequate teachers, with all the obstacles and horrors of the period of Reconstruction, when one side strove to make the negro politically dominant, and the other side fought to restore him to a condition of slavery, how can it be said that negro education has had a fair trial? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.