The Negro Problem: Abraham Lincoln's Solution

TO THE THINKING MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO, REALIZING THE GRAVITY OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM, ARE SEEKING IN PERPLEXITY FOR ITS SOLUTION, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS BOOK I. THE PROBLEM. CHAPTER PAGB I. The Character of the Problem ... 3 II. The History of the Problem. . .29 III. The Dimensions of the Problem. . .47 IV. The Present Condition of the Negro Race. 68 V. Illustrative Phases of the Problem. . 96 VI. Why Attempt to Solve the Problem at All ? . 125 BOOK II. THE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS. I. The Solution of the South. . . .153 II. Lynching as an Element of the Problem. 178 III. The Solution of the North. . . .204 IV. The Political Phase of the Problem. . .229 V. The Disfranchisement of the Negro. . . 259 VI. The Negro's Solution 285 VII. Abraham Lincoln's Solution. . . 306