The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 412, Apr. 1894, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers political and civil right, then Nature is false, God is false, the teachings of Christ are false, everything is false. Have we made any progress? Let the reading of the two subjoined business notices answer. (Newspaper notice, December 2, ~ 843. ~ Public SALE OF VERY VA~uAs~E NEGROES AND STOCK ''The subscriber will offer for sale at his residence, on the 20th of December next, if a fair day, or the next fair day, 45 car 50 very valuable young negroes, consisting of men, women, boys and girls. At the same time he wild offer for sale his entire stock of blood horses, together with some farm stock. Sale to commence at ~ o o'clock A.M.'' SELMA, ALABAMA (Newspaper notice, February 7, ~ 894. ~ ''At a public auction yesterday, a large tract of land at Cahaba, Ala., which was formerly the State Capital of Alabama, and on which the capital building once stood, was sold to a colored man by the name of John Smith. Years ago this tract of land contained not only the capital building, but a large number of the most aristocratic and wealthy families in Alabama resided there, and many evidences of their former wealth and prosperity are to be seen in Cahaba to-day. ''The fact that the former capital of Alabama, with the many valuable town lots and other improvements that were made in former years, have passed into the hands of a colored man, marks quite a change in the history of the State.'' Booker T. Washington A.M.E. Church Review, lo (Apr. 1894), 478-83. A shorter version anneared in the Christian Register, 73 ~ July ~ 2, 1894), 437-38. err ~ BTW's characterization of Jews as being in a separate category from the white race incurred the wrath of Isaac M. Wise, editor of the American Israelite. BTW needed ''a lesson in primary ethnology,'' Wise wrote. ''All Jewish Americans are Caucasians and when the Rev. Prof. uses such an expression as 'a Jew or a white man' he commits a scientific blunder.'' Wise suggested that BTW harbored ''the secret malice that invariably marks a servile nature seeking to assume a feeling of equality with something higher, which it does not possess.'' American Israelite, [July 26, 1894], 4.) 4I2