Philadelphia: Press of E.A. Wright, 1904.
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Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 12pp. Stapled printed green wrappers. Stamp of "Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race. Cheyney, Pa." on first leaf, small chips on front wrap, one which extends onto first few pages, modest vertical crease, very good or better.
Offprint of an article that first appeared in *The Atlantic Monthly* in July, 1904, written during a period of drastic curtailment of the political and civil rights for African-Americans. The article is a warning that blacks will never accept disfranchisement, and the effects of such efforts would lead to terrible consequences for the South and the entire nation.
The first page is a brief sketch of the life of the author, "a colored lawyer" who "was born in Charleston, S.C., Aug. 17, 1849; graduated Lincoln University, 1870," and Harvard Law School. He was a member of the famous Grimke family of South Carolina who lived in Boston. *Work* 390; Not in *LCP* or *Blockson.*.
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