Twentieth Century Weekly Radical Aug 4 1892 Negro Lynch Law Frederick Douglass

Description: Combined shipping offered on multiple purchases. Offered is the August 4, 1892 (Vol. IX No. 5) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Joseph Fitzgerald (J. [James] W. Sullivan served as Associate Editor) and published by The Humboldt Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 9-1/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Joseph Fitzgerald (on various subjects, including "Lynching the Southern Negro" which begins, "In his article on Lynch Law in the South, Frederick Douglass recognizes the violation of white women by negroes as the usual occasion of resort to illegal violence against the blacks; he maintains, however, that very often that crime is wrongfully charged, as an excuse for every gratuitous outburst of popular wrath against the negro race; but even if that is so, it is none the less true that the usual provocation to lynching is outrage done by negroes to white women"); column For Justice in the State: Notes and Points; "A Single Tax Advance" (text of letter from Sheridan Webster with response from Associate Editor J.W. Sullivan); "The School of Applied Ethics" (lengthy letter from George Iles to Twentieth Century); "[Percy Bysshe] Shelley as a Freethinker" by English atheist and freethought writer J. M. Wheeler[Joseph Mazzini Wheeler]; "Musings" by Otto Wettstein (i.e., "The more abjectly ignorant people are, the more abjectly religious they are"); Correspondence (including letter from American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh James]); freethought column In and Out of the Church; news column The Working of the Yeast (i.e., "A new law in Berlin prescribes cremation, at the city's expense, for dead paupers"); column Our Weekly News-Letter; "Personality, or What a Man Is" by Arthur Schopenhauer (an excerpt from his book "The Wisdom of Life"). A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled, particularly along edge areas; light cover wear; tiny corner chips; pages age-toned.

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