Excerpt from The Spirit of Piney Woods As I have read over this interesting revealing of The Spirit of Piney Woods, I am again impressed by the conviction that grows upon me more strongly in each year added to my sixty years of knowledge of such work, that here IS the greatest of opportunities set before us in' the great experiment in democracy which the United States has been working out. I mean that God has a purpose in the ordering that ten per cent. Of our population should be of this Negro people whose ancestors were brought against their will from Africa, the greatest continent in physical extent. It is, also, to be said that the increasing knowledge which is being ao quired respecting Africa and its people gives ever more warrant for our having respect for and hope from the evolution of the Negro peoples. I have been led to give much thought to the facts which are being developed respecting people of and from Africa and find my enlarging opportunities for knowing, personally, more and more of the men and women of this race a high privilege. 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.