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This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for and against the Negro in hundreds of books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers, in nearly every instance, have treated the colored American as a whole; each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case. Not before has a. | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 1 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Author James Weldon Johnson Release Date February 9 2004 EBook 11012 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN EX-COLORED MAN Produced by Suzanne Shell Bradley Norton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 2 OF AN EX-COLORED MAN James Weldon Johnson 1912 PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1912 This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro but shows in a dispassionate though sympathetic manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for and against the Negro in hundreds of books but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers in nearly every instance have treated the colored American as a whole each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case. Not before has a composite and proportionate presentation of the entire race embracing all of its various groups and elements showing their relations with each other and to the whites been made. It is very likely that the Negroes of the United States have a fairly correct idea of what the white people of the country think of them for that opinion has for a long time been and is still being constantly stated but they are themselves more or less a sphinx to the .