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A discussion of what the Negro can do to help himself advance in life. Written by a Negro who, although not descended from slaves, was himself raised in poverty

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Aims to put in more definite & permanent form the ideas regarding the negro & his future which the author expressed many times on the public platform & through