Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race

Abstract

The Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Which Has Brought Together In London Men of All Races and Climes, And Of Almost Every Degree Of Civilisation, Has Been the Immediate Occasion-Not the Cause-Of The Publication of This Volume, And It. Is Hoped That the Interest in West Africa Which May Have Been Awakened By the "Exhibits" From This Part Of The World May Lend Many, Who Might Not Otherwise Have Been Attracted By The Subject, To a Perusal of Its Pages The chapters which it contains have, many of them. Appeared, at various times, in the shape of article in English periodicals, or in those of the United State They are all attempt to deal with the grave questions which affect Africa and the Negro race-to set forth to Africans and to their foreign he1pers, secular and religious, some of the conditions of the problem before them, as they have presented themselves to an African who has enjoyed exceptional opportunities of travel and observation in the Eastern and western hemispheres-in Central Africa, in Egypt and Syria, in Europe, in north and South America, and in the West Indies.