Anti-Americanism | H. G. Wells (essay date 1906)
H. G. Wells (essay date 1906)
SOURCE: Wells, H. G. “H. G. Wells.” In Broken Image: Foreign Critiques of America, edited by Gerald Emanuel Stearn, pp. 189-201. New York: Random House, 1972.
[In the following excerpt, originally published in 1906, English author H. G. Wells reflects on the lives of black Americans living in America during the early twentieth century.]
Three unfortunate Negroes were burned to death, apparently because they were Negroes. It was a sort of racial sacrament. The edified Sunday-school children hurried from their gospel-teaching to search for souvenirs among the ashes, and competed with great spirit for a fragment of charred skull.
—H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities (New York, Harper and Brothers, 1906), pp. 185-202
Before he came to America in 1906, the English writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) had an international...
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