FOOTNOTES:
[221] Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, I, 15, 8.
[222] Social Organization, p. 4.
[223] A teacher in the public schools of Chicago came in possession of the following letter written to a friend in Mississippi by a Negro boy who had come to the city from the South two months previously. It illustrates his rapid accommodation to the situation including the hostile Irish group (the Wentworth Avenue "Mickeys").
Dear leon I write to you—to let you hear from me—Boy you don't know the time we have with Sled. it Snow up here Regular. We Play foot Ball. But Now we have So much Snow we don't Play foot Ball any More. We Ride on Sled. Boy I have a Sled call The king of The hill and She king to. tell Mrs. Sara that Coln Roscoe Conklin Simon Spoke at St Mark the church we Belong to.
Gus I havnt got chance to Beat But to Boy. Sack we show Runs them Mickeys. Boy them scoundle is bad on Wentworth Avenue.
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[224] From Daniel G. Brinton, The Basis of Social Relations, pp. 194-99. (Courtesy of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1902.)
[225] From Dr. H. J. Nieboer, Slavery as an Industrial System, pp. 1-7. (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1910.)
[226] From Matthew G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor, pp. 60-337. (John Murray, 1834.)