The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South / In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race

by Winfield H. Collins

[116:17] Baltimore Sun, July 3, 1909.

[116:18] Democrat and News, Cambridge, Md., Sept. 3, 1909.

[117:19] Baltimore American, Aug. 14, 1913.

[117:20] The Philadelphia Record, Oct. 8, 1917.

[118:21] Baltimore Sun, Aug. 21, 1913.

[122:22] Baltimore Sun, Feb. 20, 1917.

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CHAPTER VI
NEGRO WEALTH OR POVERTY,—WHICH?

The statement sometimes made that in 1865 the Negro was a landless and penniless race is far from the truth. Some slaves had property that they had secured through opportunities given them by their owners. No doubt free Negroes secured at least a small share of the public domain. Many slaves upon being given freedom by benevolent masters, were also given money or property at the same time.