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1893.] Document No. 27. 3
Greensboro will make a most excellent educational centre.
We have here splendid water, an equable climate, fine rail-road
facilities, connecting the town with every section of the
State, and a social influence not surpassed elsewhere in the
State. Fur the colored people no other place in the State
could have offered greater inducements than Greensboro.
Here the pleasant relations between the two races are pro-verbial,
and the social progress among the colored people
themselves is in a high degree commendable.
It is hardly necessary to discuss the great advantages
which the Agricultural and Mechanical College will offer to
the colored people of the State. It is a fact patent to all that
industrial education intended to benefit the masses has been
tar too much neglected, even among the white people. And,
if this be true of the whites, it is a hundred-fold truer as
applied to the colored people, by whom the great bulk of
manual labor in the South must, from the very nature of the
situation, be performed.
Notwithstanding the many improvements made in agri-cultural
implements, and the high degree attained by experi-ments
in scientific farming, yet it must be acknowledged
that some of the best and oldest farms in the State have
proven unremunerative. Plantations, famous before the
war for great crops, have been ruined since, not so much by
the lazy and careless neglect of the tenant as by his wretched
ignorance of proper agricultural methods, by which much
that was otherwise useless might have been utilized, both to
improve the soil and to reduce the cost of production to the
minimum.
When correctly viewed, this is not so much the fault of
the colored man as it is his misfortune. Before the war he
was not requin d to think or plan for the future crop, the care
of the plantation, and the cost of production. Since his
manumission, and since he became a tenant, and a mechanic,
doing business for himself, he has had imposed upon him
the new and more r sponsible duty of planning and direct-
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| Full Text | 1893.] Document No. 27. 3 Greensboro will make a most excellent educational centre. We have here splendid water, an equable climate, fine rail-road facilities, connecting the town with every section of the State, and a social influence not surpassed elsewhere in the State. Fur the colored people no other place in the State could have offered greater inducements than Greensboro. Here the pleasant relations between the two races are pro-verbial, and the social progress among the colored people themselves is in a high degree commendable. It is hardly necessary to discuss the great advantages which the Agricultural and Mechanical College will offer to the colored people of the State. It is a fact patent to all that industrial education intended to benefit the masses has been tar too much neglected, even among the white people. And, if this be true of the whites, it is a hundred-fold truer as applied to the colored people, by whom the great bulk of manual labor in the South must, from the very nature of the situation, be performed. Notwithstanding the many improvements made in agri-cultural implements, and the high degree attained by experi-ments in scientific farming, yet it must be acknowledged that some of the best and oldest farms in the State have proven unremunerative. Plantations, famous before the war for great crops, have been ruined since, not so much by the lazy and careless neglect of the tenant as by his wretched ignorance of proper agricultural methods, by which much that was otherwise useless might have been utilized, both to improve the soil and to reduce the cost of production to the minimum. When correctly viewed, this is not so much the fault of the colored man as it is his misfortune. Before the war he was not requin d to think or plan for the future crop, the care of the plantation, and the cost of production. Since his manumission, and since he became a tenant, and a mechanic, doing business for himself, he has had imposed upon him the new and more r sponsible duty of planning and direct- |
