Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 3

24. Thomas Nelson Page. “The Negro: The Southerner’s Problem: First Paper, Slavery and the Old Relation between the Southern Whites and Blacks,” McClure’s Magazine (March 1904): 548-54.

Praise for the establishment of a caste system in the South that returned African Americans to a subservient status vis-à-vis white Southerners with an emphasis on white paternalism in the ante-bellum South. The frontispiece for this issue of McClure’s Magazine is a metaphorical charcoal drawing illustrating this article.