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Title: Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.)
Author: Archibald H. Grimké, Theophilus G. Steward, Lafayette M. Hershaw, Arthur A. Schomburg, William Pickens, and John W. Cromwell
Release Date: February 21, 2011 [EBook #35352]
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Message of San Domingo to the African Race
BY THEOPHILUS G. STEWARD, U. S. A. (Retired)
Economic Contribution by the Negro to America
The Status of the Free Negro from 1860 to 1870
The above Papers were all read at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting
of the American Negro Academy, held in the Y.M.C.A.
Building, 12th Street Branch, Washington, D.C.
- Archibald H. Grimké. The Sex Question and Race Segregation - Theophilus G. Steward. The Message of San Domingo to the African Race - Lafayette M. Hershaw. The Status of the Free Negro Prior to 1860 - Arthur A. Schomburg. The Economic Contribution by the Negro to America - William Pickens. The Constitutional Status of the Negro from 1860-1870 - John W. Cromwell. The American Negro Bibliography of the Year
Archibald H. Grimké. The Sex Question and Race Segregation
One wrong produces other wrongs as surely and as naturally as the seed of the thorn produces other thorns. Men do not in the moral world gather figs from a thorn-bush any more than they do in the vegetable world. What they sow in either world, that they reap. Such is the law. The earth is bound under all circumstances and conditions of time and place to reproduce life, action, conduct, character, each after its own kind. Men cannot make what is bad bring forth what is good. Truth does not come out of error, light out of darkness, love out of hate, justice out of injustice, liberty out of slavery. No, error produces more error, darkness more darkness, hate more hate, injustice more injustice, slavery more slavery. That which we do is that which we are, and that which we shall be.