AMERICAS GREATEST PROBLEM

A Menace to American Civilization, in 1907.After reviewing Negro and white racial origins, and the impact of racial differences on crime, health, and economics, the author sketches in graphic—and sympathetic—detail the horror of the African slave trade which brought the Africans to America. Describing the slave trade—and slavery—as a catastrophic error, he then goes on to point out how inherent, and unchangeable, racial differences mean that no matter what happens, politically or socially, there will never be genuine “equality” between black and white—because it is a physical impossibility.A failure to recognize this, he argues, means that America will be consigned to indefinite racial unrest. Rather than face such a future, he proposes that the only way genuine racial peace—and a lasting solution—can be achieved is through the colonization of the black population back to Africa.This book is also valuable because it shows how even as late as the early twentieth century, there was widespread support for the colonization movement—from both blacks and whites, reaching as high as the U.S. Senate, and many famous people such as the explorer Henry Morton Stanley.This edition has been fully reset and contains 51 digitally restored illustrations which appeared in the original, a glossary, and an index.