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Born in Snow Hill, in 1869, William J. Edwards graduated in 1893 from Tuskegee Institute, then under the direction of Booker T. Washington, and set out to find a way to use in his own life the values he had learned at Tuskeegee. He did not have to look far. Edwards toured Wilcox,...

""Twenty-Five Years In The Black Belt"" is a memoir written by William J. Edwards, detailing his experiences living and working in the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Edwards was a white man who moved to Alabama in the 1890s to work as a teacher...





Excerpt: ... to life and liberty as any other man. "While it was great joy for me to be in school, I was woefully unprepared to remain there. Really, I am unable to tell the many obstacles that confronted me while in school. But one of my many difficulties was to get sufficient...


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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for...


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""Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt"" is a memoir written by William J. Edwards about his experiences living and working in the Black Belt region of Alabama from 1890 to 1915. The Black Belt was a predominantly African American region of the South that was characterized by...