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(BLACK RADICALISM.) TOBIAS, D. E. Freed, But Not Free.
EARLY BLACK RADICAL WRITER (BLACK RADICALISM.) TOBIAS, D. E. Freed, But Not Free. 60 pages. Tall 12mo, original printed wrappers, stapled; some rust at the staples; a few spots of foxing to the covers. London: S. H. Burrows, 1898
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Notes: rare. No copy located by OCLC. The New York Herald of December 24, 1911 described Tobias (born in 1872) as "a negro printer . . . a college graduate, economist, criminologist, and psychologist." He was a graduate of Brown University and in 1911, formed the Human Rights League. The first half of this little book is basically an autobiography. The second half is devoted to Tobias''s life-long effort at prison reform, citing the use of prison labor in the Southern United States as virtual slavery. He was one of a small but important group of radical African-American thinkers from this period. Like W. E. B. Du Bois, John Edward Bruce, and Hubert H. Harrison, D.E. Tobias departed from the more complacent attitude of Booker T. Washington and other "compromisers." Tobias joined Marcus Garvey''s movement early on, and was on the committee for justice for Garvey following his arrest. He was the author of a very large (973 pages) and ambitious volume titled "A Negro on the Position of the Negro in America," (1899).
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