American Negro Monographs, No. 4
The Social Evolution
of the Black South
BY
W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS
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Vol. I. MARCH, 1911.No. 4.
The Social Evolution
of the Black South
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BY W. E. Burghardt DUBOIS
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DR. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.
Dr. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS is a native of Great Barrington, Mass. Afterreceiving an education in the schools of his native city he entered FiskUniversity, Tennessee, from which he graduated with the degree of A. B.He subsequently graduated from Harvard and received the degree of Ph. D.He obtained a scholarship and studied two years abroad. Returning to theU. S., he entered upon a distinguished career both as an educator andauthor. He taught at Wilberforce University, and for more than ten yearswas Professor of History and Political Economy in Atlanta University.Dr. DuBois is editor of the “Crisis,” the organ of the NationalAssociation for the Advancement of the Colored People.{3}
The Social Evolution of the Black South.
BY W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.
HAVE worded the subject which I am going to treat briefly in thispaper; “The Social Evolution of the Black South,” and I mean by that,the way in which the more intimate matters of contact of Negroes withthemselves and with their neighbors have changed in the evolution of thelast half century from slavery to larger freedom. It will be necessaryfirst in order to understand this evolution to remind you of certainwell known conditions in the South during slavery. The unit of thesocial system of the South was the plantation, and the plantation waspeculiar from the fact that it tended to be a monarchy and not anaristocracy.
In the early