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I have accepted no statement of fact, however generally made, until I was fully persuaded from my own personal investigation that what I heard was really a fact and not a rumour. Wherever I have ventured upon conclusions, I claim for them neither infallibility nor originality. They are offered frankly as my own latest and clearest thoughts upon the various subjects discussed. If any man can give me better evidence for the error of my conclusions than I have for the truth of them I am prepared to go with him, and gladly, as far as he can prove his way. And I have offered. | the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker 1 the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker Project Gutenberg s Following the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker 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 Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy Author Ray Stannard Baker Release Date January 4 2011 EBook 34847 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOLLOWING THE COLOR LINE Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker 2 was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries. FOLLOWING THE COLOR LINE BY THE SAME AUTHOR OUR NEW PROSPERITY SEEN IN GERMANY BOYS BOOK OF INVENTIONS SECOND BOYS BOOK OF INVENTIONS AND MANY STORIES Illustration AN OLD BLACK MAMMY WITH WHITE CHILD Following the Color Line AN ACCOUNT OF NEGRO CITIZENSHIP IN THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By RAY STANNARD BAKER ILLUSTRATED New York Doubleday Page Company 1908 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT 1904 1905 BY THE S. S. McCLURE COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1907 1908 BY THE PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1908 BY DOUBLEDAY PAGE COMPANY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 1908 I AM OBLIGED TO CONFESS THAT I DO NOT REGARD THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AS A MEANS OF PUTTING OFF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO RACES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. --De Tocqueville Democracy in America 1835 PREFACE My purpose in writing this book has been to make a clear statement of the exact present conditions and relationships of the Negro in American life. I am not vain enough to imagine that I have seen all the truth nor that I have always placed the proper emphasis upon the facts