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Title: Shadow and light; an autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: Washington, D. C.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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badoes, Washington, D. As a duty, mingled with pleasure, bythis humble means I reproduce a record ofthe names of men who in the last centurywere intent upon every occasion to promotethe welfare of the race, many of whom wereconspicuous in their battle for justice andthe betterment of their fellow man, thusfitting themselves for harmonies of a higherclime, have now ^^quiet sleep within thegrave, while with the residue lifes shad-OAvs are meeting and will ere long be lostto sight, with, let us hope, their memoryonly dimmed by greater activity and deeperconsecration by their successors for theideals they cherished. Ever loj^al, weshould not— Kob the dead of their sweet heritage.Their myrrh, their wine, their sheet oflead and trophies buried—but— Go get them where they got them, whenalive, And as resolutely dig or dive. With the departed was Hon. B. K. Bruce,who, living to manhood under the blight-ing influences of slavery, by honesty, nativeability and persevering study, placed his
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SHADOW AND LIGHT. 205- name iu the forefront, leaving his careeras a model. With an astuteness of percep-tion for the retention of friends, he hadsnavity of manner for the palliation offoes; with diligence and faithfulness win-ning a constituency that honored him witha seat in the United States Senate. The conference called at New Orleans,La., to promote industrial education, abovereferred to, failed to be fruitful. Membersof different religious organizations, with-out suggestion that their particular sectwould furnish a modicum of the large ex-penditure necessary to the establishmentof such ^^schools of trade, strove to havethe movement inaugurated, and launchedunder some particular denominational con-trol. Mr. Brown, whose only object in desiringto have a conference, was to elicit an ex-pression from leading colored men, an ear-nest desire for such ^schools of trade, andhelpful suggestions, looked on the need-less strife with amazement and regret, andfinally determined, as unity of

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