{"product_id":"one-common-country-for-one-common-people-paperback","title":"One Common Country for One Common People - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary E. C. Drew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The negro will not be alarmed at the unjust talk against him, as is often uttered by Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina. He will not be sent to the island of the sea to please Mr. Graves, of Georgia. The negro is here to stay, to work, to learn, to obey, to pray and to accumulate property and to become a responsible factor in his own country and nation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 25, 1903\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John J. Smallwood is the most eloquent negro orator that has ever spoken in Steubenville. He is dark in complexion, rather fine looking, a plain but substantial dresser, unassuming in his manners, a profound scholar, and a master of the pure English. He has a full round voice, very eloquent as a speaker, logical, graceful, and convincing. Upon the subject of the \"Negro Problem\" he has no equal in this country.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Steubenville Weekly Herald Star\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 25, 1903\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His style of oratory, which is dignified and graceful, is suggestive of that of Hon., Frederick Douglass, and his friends, of whom he has a host, numbering among them some of the leading men and women in New England, say that in time he will surpass Douglass.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Boston Globe November 16, 1890\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"On my return to America, on the question of labor, I learned that a colored man could better represent his race upon such issues when they came before the public.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. John Jefferson Smallwood\u003cbr\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003cbr\u003eNovember 16, 1890\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"But through the broader knowledge which cultivated intelligence brings, Dr. Smallwood has not stopped at the race question, but has entered upon the agitation of temperance and labor, topics affecting American citizens, white and colored.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003eNovember 16, 1890\u003cbr\u003eThe Boston Gl\u003cbr\u003e\"I was only twelve years of age when I ran away from my birthplace of Rich Square, NC . . . I walked sixty miles from N.C. into the town of Franklin  VA] where my poor, slave-born father and mother once lived and where my great but misguided grandfather was executed Aug.  1831]. I speak of my grandfather (Nat Turner) who led the Southampton Insurrection in  1831] as being \"great.\" I do not mean in a foolish, unselfish way but as a fact.\" November 16, 1890\u003cbr\u003eDDDDr. John Jefferson Smallwood, \u003cbr\u003eDecember 26, 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42740167213119,"sku":"9781462887194","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/30a815f744596625a6bb2ca31f0abdb2.webp?v=1765159130","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/one-common-country-for-one-common-people-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}