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Slavery and the slave trade, Professor DuBois said, began with the appearance at Lisbon in 1442 of 30 negro slaves These excited the cupidity of the Portuguese traders, who realized the superiority of negro labor over Indian labor in working the gold mines of America. The slave trade was then successively taken up by the Dutch, the English, and finally in 1807 by the Americans, the transportation of slaves growing from several thousand in 1450 to over 60,000 in 1790. The present condition of the negro race is due in great measure to the past terrible brutality...
Professor DuBois is undoubtedly the most thoroughly trained and highly educated member of his race in America, and has already made himself an authority on several historical and sociological questions. His doctor's thesis, a monograph on slave trade, was printed as one of the "Harvard Historical Studies." He has written on the condition of the negro in Philadelphia, and in Georgia and other parts of the South. His main literary work. "The Souls of Black Folk," is one of the most striking books that has been written recently by any Harvard graduate, and marks...
Following is the programme of the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall tonight: 1. March Slave, Tschaikowsky 2. Overture, "Richard III," E. German 3. Chanson de Nuit, Ed. Elgar 4. Overture, "Martha," Flotow 5. Dance of the Sun Feast, Henry Waller 6. Slavonic Dances, Dvorak 7. Largo, Handel Solo Violin, Mr. Karl Ondricek. Organ, Mr. Snow. 8. Overture, "Merry Wives of Windsor," Nicolai 9. Serenade, Moszkowski 10. Selection, "Gondoliers," Sullivan 11. El Turia, "Valse Espagnole," Granado 12. Tannhaeuser March, Wagner
March 13.--"The Abolitionists, the Slaveholders and the Slave," by William Garrott Brown '91. First Universalist Church...
...immediate danger to slavery, came in the triumph of cotton and slavery in the Mexican war, the Kansas Bill, and the partiality of the Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated...