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THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY

VOL.  I—­APRIL, 1916—­No. 2

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY

CONTENTS

KELLY MILLER:  The Historic Background of the Negro Physician

W. B. HARTGROVE:  The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution

C. G. WOODSON:  Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America

A. O. STAFFORD:  Antar, the Arabian Negro Warrior, Poet and Hero

DOCUMENTS: 
  Eighteenth Century Slaves As Advertised By Their Masters: 
    Learning a Modern Language;
    Learning to Read and Write;
    Educated Negroes;
    Slaves in Good Circumstances;
    Negroes Brought from the West Indies;
    Various Kinds of Servants;
    Negro Privateers and Soldiers Prior to The American Revolution;
    Relations Between the Slaves and the British During The Revolutionary
        War;
    Relations Between the Slaves And the French During The Colonial Wars;
    Colored Methodist Preachers Among the Slaves;
    Slaves in Other Professions;
    Close Relations of the Slaves and Indentured Servants.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS: 
     DUBOIS’S The Negro;
     ROMAN’S The American Civilization and the Negro;
     HENRY’S The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina;
     STEWARD AND STEWARD’S Gouldtown.

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THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY

VOL.  I—­APRIL, 1916—­No. 2

THE HISTORIC BACKGROUND OF THE NEGRO PHYSICIAN

In a homogeneous society where there is no racial cleavage, only the selected members of the most favored class occupy the professional stations.  The element representing the social status of the Negro would, therefore, furnish few members of the coveted callings.  The element of race, however, complicates every feature of the social equation.  In India we are told that the population is divided horizontally by caste and vertically by religion; but in America the race spirit serves both as horizontal and vertical separations.  The Negro is segregated and shut in to himself in all social and semi-social relations of life.  This isolation necessitates separate ministrative agencies from the lowest to the highest rounds of