Following the Color Line An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy by Ray Stannard Baker
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By Ray Stannard Baker
My purpose in writing this book has been to make a clear statement of the exact present conditions and relationships of the Negro in American Hfe. I am not vain enough to imagine that I have seen all the truth nor that I have always placed the proper emphasis upon the facts that I here present. Every investigator necessarily has his personal equation or point of view. The best he can do is to set down the truth as he sees it without bating a jot or adding a tittle and this I have done. I have endeavoured to see every problem not as a Northerner noras a Southerner but as an A merican. And I have looked at the Negro not merely as a menial as he is commonly regarded in the South noras a curiosity as he is often seen in the North but as a plain human being animated with his own hopes depressed by his own fears meeting his own problems with failure or success. 1have accepted no statement of fact however generally made until I was fully persuaded from my own personal investigation that what I heard was really a fact and not a rumour. Wherever I have ventured upon conclusions I claim for them neither infallibility nor originality. They are offered frankly as my own latest and clearest thoughts upon the various subjects discussed. If any man can give me better evidence for the error of my conclusions than I have for the truth of them I am prepared to go with him and gladly as far as he can prove his way. And I have offered my conclusions not in a spirit of controversy nor in behalf of any party or section of the country but in the hope that by inspiring a broader outlook they may lead finally to other conclusions more nearly approximating the truth than mine.
My purpose in writing this book has been to make a clear statement of the exact present conditions and relationships of the Negro in American Hfe. I am not vain enough to imagine that I have seen all the truth nor that I have always placed the proper emphasis upon the facts that I here present. Every investigator necessarily has his personal equation or point of view. The best he can do is to set down the truth as he sees it without bating a jot or adding a tittle and this I have done. I have endeavoured to see every problem not as a Northerner noras a Southerner but as an A merican. And I have looked at the Negro not merely as a menial as he is commonly regarded in the South noras a curiosity as he is often seen in the North but as a plain human being animated with his own hopes depressed by his own fears meeting his own problems with failure or success. 1have accepted no statement of fact however generally made until I was fully persuaded from my own personal investigation that what I heard was really a fact and not a rumour. Wherever I have ventured upon conclusions I claim for them neither infallibility nor originality. They are offered frankly as my own latest and clearest thoughts upon the various subjects discussed. If any man can give me better evidence for the error of my conclusions than I have for the truth of them I am prepared to go with him and gladly as far as he can prove his way. And I have offered my conclusions not in a spirit of controversy nor in behalf of any party or section of the country but in the hope that by inspiring a broader outlook they may lead finally to other conclusions more nearly approximating the truth than mine.
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