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Twentieth Century Negro Literature
Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664613950
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THE EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHY, BY WALTER I. LEWIS.
TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE.
THE EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHY, BY WALTER I. LEWIS.
Daniel Wallace Culp, compiler and editor of this book, was born about forty-seven years ago, of slave parents, four miles from Union Court House in South Carolina. His mother, Marilla by name, was an excellent type of the devout Christian woman of her day; she believed firmly in that God, whose inscrutable wisdom directed the ways of her race through paths that were truly hard. She hesitated not to teach her son Daniel to love, fear and obey the God in whom she trusted, using whatever light she had.
Christopher Brandon, to whom Daniel and his mother belonged, was one of those slave-holders in South Carolina who did not believe in the institution of slavery, but being uncertain as to whether his slaves would be better off if he freed them, he held them, establishing a sort of patrimony in which his slaves were allowed such superior opportunities and advantages that the less favored neighbors styled them "Brandon's free Negroes." This distinction carried with it its disadvantages as well, for on account of the ease and
