Title: Our Brother in black
Description: Haywood's Our Brothers in Black is a work that concentrates on how best to prepare the freed slaves for full participation in the American community. Noting African American community life, their relationship to the land and to their religion, he advocates education, missionary work and the establishment of black colleges. The book begins by discussing blacks' educational and economic shortcomings but discredits the popular idea that they should be returned to Africa. Haywood gives a detailed study of Lincoln and the motives for the emancipation but is focused on solving the present problem rather than condemning its existence.
Subjects: African Americans, History, Religion, Social conditions, Slaves, Emancipation, Race relations, Religious aspects, Christianity, Black people
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century