Excerpt from North America and Africa: Their Past, Present and Future and Key to the Negro Problem For Third Edition of north america and africa their past, present and future. Having written a small book entitled as above the First Edition appeared on the 20th Of May (our Mecklenburg Independence Day) 1875. TO prove that America, though when discovered, was occu pied by the Aborigines, was destined to become the home of the White man; and Africa was and should ever be the future home Of the negro race, unmixed with or unmolested by others. Four years later a Second Edition appeared in an enlarged and im proved form, though both were premature, as they asked for national aid to accomplish the Objects named. Believing the time has now come for ac tion, the author proposes now to issue the Third Edition, not only to give additional proof Of the necessity Of the great work, but the manner of doing it to benefit the two Continents and the entire world. From every standpoint, the present time seems to be most opportune and propitious to begin and carry on to a speedy completion of a plan originated in the minds of some of our greatest statesmen and philanthropists, who formed the American Coloniza tion Society eighty years ago, and adopted in early life by the writer and has followed him through many eventful years; now believes hehas formulated a most feasible plan to obtain the great blessing; and having been familiar with the institution Of slavery from childhood to its abolition, and the freedmen constantly since, a period of over three-fourths of a century, and studied the questions involved in all their phases should know whereof he writes. Dedicated to Szzfierz'ng Humanity. Fraternally, author. Statesville, N. C., Feb. 22nd, 1904. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.