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Dark Merit
by
Kathryne
Favors
SLAVERY
During slavery, many Negroes
made independent efforts to
^ establish business and to become
independent. An epoch of the
American Negro came during the
American Revolutionary War.
Many schools were opened for
Negroes and various churches
gave them opportunity to put
their ideas into practice.
Soon there appeared many Ne
gro teachers. These tbachers
taught not only members of their
race but also members of the
white race. At that time there
was caste discrimination more
than race or color discrimination.
A negro teacher was in the same
class as a white teacher. “In
* 1773, according to Jonathan
Boucher, two-thirds of the school
teachers in Maryland were the
brought from Europe to serve
here as indentured servants.”
In 1740, there was a Negro in
Pennsylvania advertised as quali
fied to bleed and draw teeth,
“pretending to be a great doctor.”
In 1797, there was another in
South Carolina who served as a
doctor there. James Derham
learned the medical profession
from his master by helping him
compound medicines and assist
with the patients. He was sold
as a slave to another doctor and
he developed still further in the
j| medical profession, then he was
* sold to Dr. Robert Dove of New
Orleans and soon he built up a
business in New Orleans paying
him $3,000 a year. Of him Dr.
Benjamin said: “I have conversed
with him most of the acute and
epidemic diseases of the country
where he lives and was pleased
to find him perfectly acquainted
with the modern simple mode of
practice on those diseases. I ex
pected to have suggested some
new medicines to him; but he
suggested many more to me. He
is very modest and engaging in
his manners. He speaks French
fluently and has some knowledge
of the Spanish language.”
Then Negroes became inter
ested in fraternal organizations.
Y Prince Hall was the pioneer in
developing Masonry among the
Negroes in North America.
In the religious world, many
PEOPLE OF NEBRASKA
The Mason Family of
Nehawka, Nebraska
The late Thomas Mason and
wife were married in Nebraska
City, Nebraska in 1887. To this
union were born two children,
Ella and Thomas Jr.
In 1891 the family moved to
Nehawka, where in 1917 Miss
Ella Mason and Boyd Francisco
of oAaha were united in mar
riage. To this couple one son
was born, who is living now at
Nehawka. His mother passed
away in 1928.
Thomas was married in Kan
sas City, Kansas in 1932 to Miss
Thelma Robbins, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Robbins of
that city. She had been a teacher
at the Grant School in Kansas
City for eight years prior to her
marriage. To this couple were
born two children, Elizabeth, 8,
and Thomas 6.
Mr. Mason has carried mail
in Nehawka since 1914 and re
ceived his 33rd Masonic Degree
in 1936.
The Masons are well known to
many Lincolnites.
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Negroes had a chance to develop
their ability as leaders and pas
tors of churches, “clergy of the
sects dominant during the coloni
al period were either inaccesseble
or unsympathetic toward the
Negro. The Angelieans, succeded
by the Protestant Episcopalians,^
would not countenance such a
thought as that of a Negro rector;
Catholics, more kindly disposed
to the race, did not work in that
direction; and neither did the
Presbyterians nor the Quakers
make sufficient inroads among
them to justify the elevation of
Negroes to commanding positions
in these respective circles. In
the case of the Methodist and
Baptist churches, however, the
Negro had a better chance.”
—Woodson, Carter G. The Negro
in Our History
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