. The upward path : the evolution of a race . Gods service if theymight have punished the ^^ oppressors still more severely. They had no appreci-ative knowledge of the race traits or thecharacteristics of the Negro. They did notrealize his primitive condition nor the longhard process of evangelizing and civilizinghim, therefore they could not know howmuch had been accomplished for him by theSouthern white people. They thought ofthe Negro as a Caucasian with a black skinwho had been robbed of his possessedrights and brutally treated, and all his ig-norance and sin and misery were laid atthe doo
. The upward path : the evolution of a race . Gods service if theymight have punished the ^^ oppressors still more severely. They had no appreci-ative knowledge of the race traits or thecharacteristics of the Negro. They did notrealize his primitive condition nor the longhard process of evangelizing and civilizinghim, therefore they could not know howmuch had been accomplished for him by theSouthern white people. They thought ofthe Negro as a Caucasian with a black skinwho had been robbed of his possessedrights and brutally treated, and all his ig-norance and sin and misery were laid atthe door of the white man. Taking no ac-count of the recent terrible cataclysmthrough which both races had passed, theyfailed to recognize existing conditions as inpart, at least, resulting from Teaching Sad to Say, thcy transmitted these ideas Aroused ^ •^ Animosity |q their pupils, young and old, in the schooland in the cabin, and the tares of distrustand resentment (not purposely, it is hoped)were sown along with the good seed of the. General O. O. Howard First Years of Freedom 99 / Gospel and the primer. These tares boredangerous fruit in the lives and mannersof the impressionable Negroes, and thewhite people learned from them in variousunpleasant ways (possibly much exagger-ated) what the missionary and teacherwere saying, and they took bitter offenseat such instruction. Especially was this re-sentment felt by the Southern land was battle-scarred, its desolatefields were filled with the unsodded gravesof their dead, they had endured untoldhardships during the war, and now povertyand its unaccustomed labor pressed uponmany of them. They were boiling with in-dignation under the double rule of thearmy and the Negro; they were fearfullyconscious of the danger that lurked atevery window and door; and now it wasintolerable to have those with whom theyhad once lived in affectionate intercourse,and upon whom as the only servant classthey were still dependent, so t
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