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Title: Peonage
The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15
Author: Lafayette M. Hershaw
Release Date: February 17, 2010 [EBook #31300]
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OCCASIONAL PAPERS, NO. 15.
The American Negro Academy.
PEONAGE
—BY—
LAFAYETTE M. HERSHAW
PRICE : : 15 CTS.
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PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY
1915
PEONAGE
BY LAFAYETTE M. HERSHAW
The Negro was kidnapped from the shores of Africa and brought into the Western Hemisphere at the beginning of the sixteenth century in order to meet the conditions growing out of an acute labor problem. The greedy and adventurous Spaniard had come to these shores in quest of gold, and after years of experiment he discovered that the Indian who lived in the islands and on the coast of the New World, either would not or was not physically able to perform the heavy labor of extracting gold from the mines. To meet his greedy quest, it was then necessary to look elsewhere to find the man who was feeble enough in will and strong enough in body to meet the conditions which then presented themselves. The African was that man. It is not the purpose of these reflections to deal with the institution of slavery other than to point out that what slavery is appears altogether from the point of view of the one who discusses it. It is common nowadays to refer to it as a practical institution by means of which the savage African was brought under the beneficent influences of Christianity, taught the English language, and the joy of intelligently directed labor. But before the beginning of the institution as a means of meeting the needs of work, the moralist considered it as the sum of all villanies, the reformer termed it the negation of all
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