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Excerpt from The Oasis My purpose is a simple and honest one. I wish to familiarize the public mind with the idea that colored peo ple are human beings elevated or degraded by the same circumstances that elevate or degrade other men. Perhaps there are few who will openly deny this; but many have the latent feeling. If it were otherwise, we could not look upon their wrongs so coldly as we do. 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.