Publisher's Synopsis
Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show thestrange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the TwentiethCentury. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for theproblem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. I prayyou, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden ther