CHAPTER XXII THE NEGRO AND CRIME I WAS told in New Orleans that I took too favourable a view of the Negro in the South. The usual stories were related about the vicious con- ditions of his life, his drunkenness, fondness for gambling, excessive addiction to sexual pleasures, the insulting attitude… … 377- THE AUTHOR ON THE MISSISSIPPI the number, herself a widely travelled woman and a native of Tennessee — I was enabled to visit a number of outlying Negro villages along the Mississippi River near its mouth ; and again, later, other Negro villages in the western part of Louisiana. The people…
Blacks · Slavery
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