Wanted-Leaders!
A Study of Negro Development
By
The Rt. Rev. Theodore DuBose Bratton, D. D.
Bishop of Mississippi
PRESIDING BISHOP AND COUNCIL
Department of Missions and Church Extension
281 Fourth Avenue New York
1922
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Negro in Africa | 5 |
| II. | The Negro in Liberia | 35 |
| III. | The Negro in Haiti | 63 |
| IV. | The Slave and the Freedman in America | 91 |
| V. | The Period of War and Reconstruction | 123 |
| VI. | The Education of the Negro | 143 |
| VII. | The Christian Development of the Negro | 173 |
| VIII. | What of the Future? | 211 |
| Appendix | 231 | |
| Bibliography | 251 |
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WANTED-LEADERS!
A Study of Negro Development
Chapter I
THE NEGRO IN AFRICA
The Africa of five hundred years ago, when themodern nations first dipped into its wild andtroubled life, presented at least as great a varietyof racial characteristics as any other continent.Natural barriers; climatic influences; the recurringdesert, swamp, and prairie areas;—all tended tosegregate the tribes, and to fix widely different physicalcharacteristics. The ancient Empires of theMediterranean had left the posterity of their mixedfamilies, and the tradition of their mingled religions,on the borders of that great sea. Inevitablythese exercised more or les