Footnotes:
[15] "Twentieth Century Negro Literature," by W. W. Culp, page 399. Published by J. L. Nichols Co., Atlanta, Ga.
[16] Opinions of Attorney General of the U. S., Vol. 9, page 171.
[17] An act to establish a Patent Office, and to provide for granting patents for new and useful discoveries, inventions, improvements and designs. Statutes at large of the Confederate States of America, 1861-64, page 148.
[18] Desdunes, Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire, 101.
[19] Munsey's Magazine, August, 1912, p. 723.
[20] "Short History of American Shoemaking," by Frederick A. Gannon, Salem, Mass., 1912.
[21] A copy of this was shown the writer September, 1915.