Unfettered: A NovelGriggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
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Unfettered: A Novel
Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
African Americans -- Fiction; United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
The man who knows that there is a prejudice against him, owes it to himself
to so contrive that he shall be as nearly as possible independent of the
workings of this prejudice. Negroes, therefore, should, in the main, seek
those callings in which they shall be above the whims and prejudices of
men.
The land owner, the farmer, can come as near to being independent of his
fellows as a man may in these days attain. The sun, the elements, the soil,
his own strong arm, are his chief reliance and these forces are not subject
to enslavement, nor can prejudice weaken them. Nature has no favorites
among men. The rains fall upon the just and the unjust alike. Back to the
farms, therefore, should in a large measure be our cry. With a strong
agricultural backbone the position of the race is much the more secure. The
conditions that operated to cause the Negroes to so largely abandon the
farms must be studied and altered when possible.
Our racial organization shall give due recognition to the following needs,
doing all that is necessary to see that they are attained:
1. The Negro must become the owner of the soil he
tills.
2. He must be placed above the conditions of dire
necessity that causes him to resort to the credit
system of buying and the mortgaging of his crops, which
things have hitherto wrought his ruin.
3. Provisions must be made whereby he may secure modern
appliances with which to farm.
4. He must be educated so that he may know how to
obtain the best possible results from the soil.
5. He must be taught to keep fully posted upon the
important happenings in the commercial world bearing
upon his interests.
6. The Negro must join hands with the students of the
agricultural problem in general, ready to avail himself
of any new developments of value that may arise.
LITTLE AFRICAS.
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