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See Chapter X, Section 3.
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We can not too much emphasize the fact that the leaders of this period were by no means impractical theorists but men who were scientifically approaching the social problem of their people. They not only anticipated such ideas as those of industrial education and of the National Urban League of the present day, but they also endeavored to lay firmly the foundations of racial self-respect.
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Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, by M.R. Delany, Chief Commissioner to Africa, New York, 1861.
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Delany, 8.
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Fox: The American Colonisation Society, 177; also note pp. 12, 120-2.
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For the progress of all the plans offered to the convention note important letter written by Holly and given by Cromwell, 20-21.
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Ida M. Tarbell: "The American Woman: Her First Declaration of Independence," American Magazine, February, 1910.
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Reminiscences of the president, Mrs. Frances D. Gage, cited by Tarbell.