in history.  Just as in the case of individuals, so in the case of races, it is, first and last, a question of finding our place in the world.  Variation in type is absolutely essential to the highest development of the human species.  It is not, therefore, the duty of any one race to follow blindly in the footsteps of another.  It is for each race to seek for the best traits peculiarly its own, and to leave absolutely nothing undone, in season and out, to develop those particular traits to the highest possible degree.  In other words, it is not for the negro to try to be as near as he can to a white man, even in his innermost thoughts and aspirations, but to interpret the lessons of his own life through the philosophy of negro history and to be true to the moral and spiritual ideals of his race and his ancestors, be they what they may.

Very truly yours,

F. L. HOFFMAN,
Statistician.

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THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY

VOL.  I—­JUNE, 1916—­No. 3

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY

CONTENTS

C. E. PIERRE:  The Work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
   Foreign Parts among the Negroes in the Colonies

ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON:  People of Color in Louisiana, Part I

WILLIAM T. McKINNEY:  The Defeat of the Secessionists in Kentucky in 1861

J. KUNST: 
  Notes on Negroes in Guatemala During the Seventeenth Century;
  A Mulatto Corsair of the Sixteenth Century

DOCUMENTS: 
  TRAVELERS’ IMPRESSIONS OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA FROM 1750 TO 1800: 
    Burnaby’s View of the Situation in Virginia;
    General Treatment of Slaves Among the Albanians—­Consequent Attachment
      of Domestics.—­Reflections on Servitude by an American Lady;
    Impressions of an English Traveler;
    Abbe Robin on Conditions in Virginia;
    Observations of St. John De Crevecoeur;
    Impressions of Johann D. Schoepf;
    Extracts from Anburey’s Travels Through North America;
    Vindication of the Negroes:  A Controversy;
    Sur L’etat General, Le Genre D’industrie, Les Moeurs, Le Caractere,
      Etc.  Des Noirs, Dans Les Etats-unis;
    Slavery as Seen by Henry Wansey;
    Esclavage Par La Rochefoucauld-liancourt;
    Observations Sur L’esclavage Par La Rochefoucauld-liancourt;
    What Isaac Weld Observed in Slave States;
    John Davis’s Thoughts on Slavery;
    Observations of Robert Sutcliff;
  SOME LETTERS OF RICHARD ALLEN AND ABSALOM JONES TO DOROTHY RIPLEY: 
    Letter from an African Minister, Resident in Philadelphia Addressed
      to Dorothy Ripley. 
    Letter from an African, resident in Philadelphia, to Dorothy Ripley

REVIEWS OF BOOKS: 
     CLAYTON’S The Aftermath of the Civil War, in Arkansas;
     EVANS’S Black and White in the Southern States;
     SAYERS’S Samuel Coleridge-Taylor—­Musician.  His Life and Letters;
     BAILEY’S Race Orthodoxy in the South and Other Aspects of the Negro
       Problem;