On the Kansas side, he found a Negro blacksmith, with an establishment of his own.

He had come from Tennessee after emancipation.

He had not been back there and did not want to go.

He also saw black women keeping apple stalls and engaged in other such occupations so as to leave him under the impression that in the States, which he called intermediate between black and white countries the blacks evidently had no difficulty .-- See _American Journal of Social Science_, XI, pp.

32, 33.] [Footnote 21: _American Journal of Social Science_, XI, p.