Race Relations
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The Heart of the Race Problem
by Quincy Ewing (March, 1909) "The foundation of [the race problem], true or false, is the white man's conviction that the Negro as a race, and as an individual, is his inferior.... The problem itself ... is the white man's determination to make good this conviction, coupled with constant anxiety lest, by some means, he should fail to make it good."
The President's Proclamation
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Novermber, 1862) "And the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's Proclamation, namely, to break up the false combination of Southern society, to destroy the piratic feature in it which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis."