Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — The Destiny of the Negro. [ARTICLE]

The Destiny of the Negro.

■What is the destiny of the American negro? Extinction, emigration or amalgamation? In answer to this question Bishop W. J. Gaines, who Is no mean authority on the subject, says: “The black race is surely and gradually becoming absorbed by the white; that, in the run of years, the black face will disappear, the evolution being reached through a process of graded mulatto tints and constantly lessening African characteristics.”