Excerpt from Short Biographical Sketches of Eminent Negro Men and Women: In Europe and the United States, With Brief Extracts From Their Writings and Public UtterancesUpon the other hand, however, we cannot fail to see the necessary good that emanates from the study of the acts of those who, in the emulation of conditions, have made greatness possible. The unsupported theory that man sprang from one stock has so rent in twain the species, that it has become supremely necessary to identify the Races and their acts.The Race which erroneously is called Negro, but which is correctly a Colored Race, springing from African Ancestors, finds itself so disadvantageously positioned among other Races that an intellectual disruption would be an obvious sequence were it not for a biographical data to which to refer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.