The Negro in the new world / by Harry H. Johnston ; maps by J.W. Addison.

  • Johnston, Harry H. (Harry Hamilton), Sir, 1858-1927.
Date:
1910
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Credit: The Negro in the new world / by Harry H. Johnston ; maps by J.W. Addison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (I had previously been the guest of Dr. H. B. Frissell, at Hampton.) What I have learnt from and through the Principal of 1 uskegee and his staff (especially from Dr. Robert E. Park) is set forth in the chapters dealing with the Education of the Negro, as is also my indebtedness to Mr. J. O. Thompson and Mr. W. 1 hompson, well-known landowners in Alabama, whose acquaintance I made at I uskegee, and who showed me so much of industrial and agricultural Alabama. All Louisiana—the most interesting of the Southern States, as Alabama is the most beautiful—was thrown open to my inquiring gaze by the introductions of the Honble. Pearl White; and I shall long remember the hospitality of Mr. McCall on his estate by the banks of the Mississippi. Whatever it may have lacked in the “ ante-bellum ” days, the hospitality of the “South” is now a very delightful reality. My sincere thanks are also due to Mrs. J. Perrin (to whom I was introduced by Mr. McClure), who resides for a part of the year on the Mississippi Delta, and who with one of her friends acted as my cicerone in visiting negro settlements in that region. Mr. Pearl White’s introductions carried me through Florida to Cuba, where the Honble. R. Hawley [who supervises most of the great sugar estates of that island], together with the British Minister (Mr. A. C. Grant Duff) and the managers of the English railways, enabled me to see a good deal of Cuba at a minimum of time and ex- pense. To Mr. Theodore Brooks, British Vice-Consul at Guantanamo, I feel excep- tionally indebted. In Haiti, thanks especially to the American Minister, Dr. H. W. Furniss, I was enabled to see more of the country and people in a relatively short space of time than any preceding traveller (I should think). I am also indebted to Captain Alexander Murray, the British Consul-General in that Republic, and to the courtesy and kindness of the Haitian officials; to Mr. C. Lyon Hall, a well-known British resident and banker at Port-au-Prince, and to Mrs. Lyon Hall; to the Messrs. Peters, British concessiomiciires in Haiti; to the German Consul-General and the German residents at Port-au-Prince; and last, but not least, to the French priests and seminarists of the Haitian Church and Educational department. [As showing the wide scope of the Roman propaganda, it was interesting to me to renew acquaintance in Haiti with Catholic missionaries whom I had last seen in East Africa and Uganda.] In Jamaica Sir Sydney Olivier obtained for me every facility for sight-seeing and study which could save time and expense and procure for me the information I wanted. The kindly help of other Jamaican officials is acknowledged in loco; but I should like specially to thank Mr. W. Harris, Mr. H. H. Cousins, and Miss H. A. Wood for their initiation into the wonders and beauties of the Jamaican flora. Unfortunately I have only been able to use in the present work a fiftieth part of their information and pictures. President Taft allowed me to accompany his tour of inspection over the Panama Canal zone in February, 1909. The facilities most kindly offered me by the Royal Mail Steamship Company enabled me to avail myself of this invitation and to visit the Spanish Main and the islands of Trinidad and Barbados. Other journeys to and through the New World were carried out under the cegis of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son, to whose agent in New York I tender my sincere thanks.