Some one may be tempted to ask, Has not the negro boy or girl as good a
right to study a French grammar and instrumental music as the white youth?
I answer, Yes, but in the present condition of the negro race in this
country there is need of something more. Perhaps I may be forgiven for the
seeming egotism if I mention the expansion of my own life partly as an
example of what I mean. My earliest recollection is of a small one-room
log hut on a large slave…… More »