Excerpt from Overshadowed: A Novel The task assigned to the Negroes of the United States is unique in the history of mankind. He whose grandfather was a savage and whose father was a slave has been bidden to participate in a highly complex civilization on terms of equality with the most cultured, aggressive and virile type of all times, the Anglo-Saxon. The stupendous character of the task is apparent when it is called to mind that the civilization...
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