A collection of seven essays on the subject of African-Amerians and slavery. Includes: Industrial Education For The Negro By Booker T. Washington; The Talented Tenth By Prof. W.E. Burghardt Dubois; The Disfranchisement Of The Negro By Charles W. Chesnutt; The Negro And The Law By Wilford H. Smith; The Characteristics Of The Negro People By H.T. Kealing; Representative American Negroes By Paul Laurence Dunbar; and, The Negro's Place In American Life At The Present Day By T. Thomas Fortune.