[180] This speech was made in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1890 which disfranchised the Negro, by the Hon. Thomas E. Miller, ex-congressman and one of the six Negro members of the Convention. The Convention did not have the courage to publish it in their proceedings but it may be found in the Occasional Papers of the American Negro Academy No. 6, pp. 11-13.
[181] Cf. W. E. B. Du Bois, Reconstruction (American Historical Review, XV, No. 4, p. 871).
W. E. B. Du Bois, Economics of Negro Emancipation (Sociological Review, Oct., 1911, p. 303).
[182] O. O. Howard, Autobiography, New York, 1907, Vol. 2, pp. 361-7, 371-2.
[183] Testimony of the presiding officer, Mrs. Frances D. Gage, in “Narrative of Sojourner Truth,” 1884, pp. 134-5.
[184] Goodell, Slave Code, p. 111.
[185] Robertson, Louisiana under the Rule of Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 67, 103, 111; Dunbar-Nelson, in Journal of Negro History, Vol. 2, p. 56.
[186] Dunbar-Nelson, loc. cit.
[187] Dunbar-Nelson, op. cit., p. 62; Martineau, Society in America, p. 326ff.
[188] Brownie’s Book, March, 1921.