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Title: The Conservation of Races
The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2

Author: W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

Release Date: February 11, 2010 [EBook #31254]

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The American Negro Academy

Occasional Papers, No. 2.

The Conservation of Races.

BY
W. E. BURGHARDT Du BOIS.

WASHINGTON, D. C.
Published by the Academy.
1897.

Baptist Magazine Print,
Washington, D. C.

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Announcement

The American Negro Academy believes that upon those of the race who have
had the advantages of higher education and culture, rests the
responsibility of taking concerted steps for the employment of these
agencies to uplift the race to higher planes of thought and action.

Two great obstacles to this consummation are apparent: (_a_) The lack of
unity, want of harmony, absence of a self-sacrificing spirit, and no
well-defined line of policy seeking definite aims; and (_b_) The
persistent, relentless, at times covert opposition employed to thwart
the Negro at every step of his upward struggles to establish the
justness of his claim to the highest physical, intellectual and moral
possibilities.

The Academy will, therefore, from time to time, publish such papers as
in their judgment aid, by their broad and scholarly treatment of the
topics discussed the dissemination of principles tending to the growth
and development of the Negro along right lines, and the vindication of
that race against vicious assaults.

THE CONSERVATION OF RACES.

The American Negro has always felt an intense personal interest in
discussions as to the origins and destinies of races: primarily because
back of most discussions of race with which he is familiar, have lurked
certain assumptions as to his natural abilities, as to hi