[53] Ibid., Sec. 2793-2794. Cf. Statute Laws here.
[54] Statute Laws, Tenn., 1846, Ch. 191.
[55] Brackett, "The Negro in Maryland," Johns Hopkins Studies, Ch. V, p. 191.
[56] Ibid., pp. 191-192.
[57] Personal Testimony, B. S.; J. P. Q. E.; E. S. M. Nashville, 1912.
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NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY IN OUR SCHOOLS
The study of the ethnology and the history of the Negro has not yet extended far beyond the limit of cold-blooded investigation. Prior to the Civil War few Americans thought seriously of studying the Negro in the sense of directing their efforts toward an acquisition of knowledge of the race as one of the human family; and this field was not more inviting to Europeans, for the reduction of the Negro to the status of a tool for exploitation began in Europe. The race did receive attention from pseudo-scientists, a few historians pointed out the possibilities of research in this field, and others brought forward certain interesting sketches of distinguished Negroes exhibiting evidences of the desirable qualities manifested by other races.