Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 79

48. Charles Francis Adams, “Reflex Light from Africa,” Century Magazine (May 1906): 101-11.

Reflections on a trip to Khartoum with comparisons between the natives in Sudan and African Americans in the States. The author believes that, after having seen native Africans first hand, the notion that African Americans can compete with European Americans intellectually and culturally “is the sheerest of delusions.”