Quincy Ewing

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  1. The Heart of the Race Problem

    “The problem, How to maintain the institution of chattel slavery, ceased to be at Appomattox; the problem, How to maintain the social, industrial, and civic inferiority of the descendants of chattel slaves, succeeded it, and is the race problem of the South at the present time. There is no other.”

    A black and white illustration: James T.S. Taylor, an African-American Union Army veteran, represented Albemarle County at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867-68, one of 24 black men among the 104 delegates who reformed the state constitution after the Civil War.
    New York Public Library