Excerpt from The Vengeance of the Gods: And Three Other Stories of Real American Color Line Life But the process of um-educating one's self from Old habits and false notions and prejudices of many centuries is most difficult. People thus affected are frequently found reversing themselves. It is a work of slow growth and almost interminable. They need light and more of it every day. Writers who devote their talent in furnishing material to meet this condition render double service: they help the blind out of his dungeon and build up hope and expectation of a brighter day in the breast of the sufferer. They are entitled to the encourage ment and respect of those whom they serve. The colored people must learn more and more to sup port them and, by that means, hasten the dawn of the social and spiritual redemption of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.