The Leading Afro-Americans of Vicksburg, Miss.
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Excerpt from The Leading Afro-Americans of Vicksburg, Miss.: Their Enterprises, Churches, Schools, Lodges and Societies A City set upon a hill can not be hid. Vicksburg has been in the front ranks of publicity for the past sixty years. It was the home of a race of statesmen before the war of the rebellion. It was the home town of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Southern Confederacy. It was the home of many of the reconstruction leaders. It was here that the first colored man attempted to manage a community. No reference need he had to the success or failure of those who took upon themselves this most serious task. But the Carters and Cardozas, and others whose names were household words when the present generation of active people were in kilts and short skirts, have left conflicting memories. In the very earliest days this city attracted a number of brilliant and energetic colored people from abroad. Vicksburg became the center from which radiated the spirit and intelligence which attempted the management of the commonwealth. It was inevitable that it should have afterward been the theater in which was played the tragedy of the second revolution. Its white people came from a race of men who had sent the Southrons to win glory at Beuna Vista, and afterwards at Gettysburg and in the Wilderness, and whose valor in defense of its rugged heights added a new and brilliant chapter to American arms. Colored people are imitative of the best as well as the worst in their white neighbors and compatriots, and they aspired to try their hands at taking part in the game of politics as they had seen the masters play it. But not in the political field has the colored citizen of Vicksburg been shown at his best. In the gentler walks of private and business life he has won for himself a name for integrity as well as ability. The first colored physician who ever practiced in the state made Vicksburg his home. A lawyer who had won honors in Queen´s College. Oxford, John D. S. Perrier, made great progress in his profession in this city, maintaining the dignity and grace which his training in England had impressed upon him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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