The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-12-18

resentlng the best types OF the race /
to which it belongs. To this end DR.. |
Boyd arranged to import Let of Ne
gro dolls. DR.. Boyd took the propo-
sition under advisement, and made |
tentative arrangement to import a
few dolls in order to test the demand |
by his race for colored dolls. There |
are many features involved in this
doll question that have never been |
subjected to scientific investigation.
The children of all nations have had |
dolls and various SORTS of playthings, |
but the doll in all ages and among
all nations seems to have been the
the favorite with little children. This
is universally looked upon as an in
cipient, or an instructive manifesto
tion of the hope of maternity. Or it
may be an instructive desire of the
child to have something like them
selves-small and helpless 1t is
common for little girls to talk, to
scold and to punish their dolls just
as their mothers talk to, scold and
punish them.
Again if every race must have
representative doll of it's own, what
type or nation would the Afro-Amer-
lean adopt? The type of color of the
race will have no effect on their flu
ture destiny. In fact, ethnologically,
the Afro-American belongs to no race.
They were brought to America by en-
terprising ship owners of the North
Atlantic Coast and sold first to their
own countrymen, who finding them
improbable in that climate again sold
them to Southern men who had just
begun to realize the possibilities of
cotton growing. These wild Negroes
were not captured by the American
slave traders but were bought from
the more powerful African tribes, and
| from Arab chiefs who had captured
them and made slaves of them and
sold them to any one who would buy.
They were slaves, or prisoners of
war;" when they were purchased from
their African or Arab owners at so
much per head, delivered f. o. b. the
slave ships. These captured wild
Negroes were, as a rule, members of
the weakest tribes and of the lowest
order of mentality. Very few of the
fierce and warlike tribes were bought
On the same ''slavers," as the ships
engaged in this nefarious practice
were called, there were often Negroes
from a dozen or a score of different
tribes speaking different language
or more properly speaking, chatter,
for their jargon, limited to fewer, per
haps, than a hundred different voca
sounds, could not be called a Ian
guage. There were, and yet are il
Africa, hundreds of tribes called Ne
groes, from the Latin niger, meaning
: black, all having some physiological
: and anatomical differentiations, bu
all having similar heads and facia
= bones. The peculiar blunt wedge
: shaped skull of the Afro-American il
identical in shape as those pictured
, on the oldest ruins of Egypt. II
: those ancient pictures the Negro il
invariably represented as a prisone
of war or a slave.
, Respectable Negro mothers will no
r buy colored dolls, and the other sor
can't. Below is given about the sub
: stance of the reply respectable
mother of a colored family would Civ
? to a proposition to purchase a CO..
) ored doll: "G'way fun here wild you
. old Dutch niger doll. My chilluns
jest as good as anybody's and the,
g are goin' to have just as purity doll
| and playthings as anybody's."
! The above article by Mr.. Dan "
. Baird was clipped from the Nashvill
: Banner of December 18th. Mr.. BairC
v presume, is the Editor of tie South
|. ern Lumberman and is quite an int
q ligent but very elderly gentleman
/ He is possibly one of the best il
! formed men on the lumber questio
> that we have in this country, but whe
: it comes to the sociological ideas an
! educational developments of tn
' American Negro he is indeed lik
most of our white brethren, yer
poorly informed. I suppose, Nj
= Baird, like many other gentlemen an
. ladies', became wonderfully excite
I last September when he learne
that the Negro Baptists of this cour
try had taken long step in the RICH
direction to develop the real charat
teristic beauty and lovableness @
Negro features and virtues for then
y selves as the Anglo-Saxon race ha
done for themselves. OF course. MI
Baird set out to hunt down the four
!, tain head, if possible, of this novelt
| enterprise and see what was at tn
: bottom OF II but lacked q great dnn