The Negro in the South
Subtitle: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development : being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907
By: by Booker T. Washington and W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
Contributors: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Religion; Vocational education; Slavery; Economic aspects; Moral and ethical aspects
Other titles: William Levi Bull Lectures for the year 1907; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: 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 and W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs, c1907. 222 p. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: The economic development of the Negro race in slavery / by B.T. Washington; title: The economic development of the Negro race since its emancipation / by B.T. Washington; title: The economic revolution in the South / by W.E.B. Du Bois; title: Religion in the South / by W.E.B. Du Bois; title: Notes to chapters III and IV (Bibliography: p. 220-222).