title: Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany
author: Ethel Morgan Smith
description: Ethel Morgan Smith is also the author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College and has published in national and international outlets. She is Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University, and has received the following awards: Fulbright-Universitat of Tubingen, Germany, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship-Bellagio, Italy, Visiting Artist-The American Academy in Rome, Reseach fellow-Brandeis University's Women's Studies Reserach Center, Dupont Fellowship-Randolph-Macon Woman's College, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Breadloaf, and other.
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  ### Edward Bellamy
  
  
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  By Edward Bellamy
  
  1898
  
  The 25th of May, 1866, was no doubt to many a quite indifferent date, but to
  two persons it was the saddest day of their lives. Charles Randall that day
  left Bonn, Germany, to catch the steamer home to America, and Ida Werner was
  left with a mountain of grief on her gentle bosom, which must be melted away
  drop by drop, in tears, before she could breathe freely again.
  
  A year before, Randall, hunting for apartments, his last term at the
  university just begun, had seen the announcement, “Zimmer zu vermiethen,” in
  the hall below the flat where the Werners lived. Ida answered his ring, for
  her father was still at his government office, and her mother had gone out to
  the market to buy the supper. She would much rather her mother had been at
  home to show the gentleman the rooms; but, knowing that they could not a