Various

“ CHAPTER IX 93 Philip A. Bell, a Veteran Editor of the "Negro Press"—British Columbia, Its Early History, Efforts for Annexation to the United States—Meeting with Lady Franklin, Widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic Explorer, in 1859—Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada in 1868, the Political Issue—Queen Charlotte Island—Anthracite Coal Company—Director, Contractor and Shipper of First Cargo of Anthracite Coal on the Pacific Coast—Indians and Their Peculiarities. ”

“ By Linda Brent CONTENTS PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL I Childhood II The New Master And Mistress III The Slaves' New Year's Day IV The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man V The Trials Of Girlhood VI The Jealous Mistress VII The Lover VIII What Slaves Are Taught To Think Of The North IX Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders X A Perilous Passage In The Slave Girl's Life. ”

“ IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION.
The duty plain and scriptural—Break every yoke—proclaim a year of Jubilee—Slavery cannot be reformed—Slaves prepared for freedom—Free people of color—Fugitives in Canada—West India emancipation—Colored people not dangerous when free—Amalgamation—Our fears originate in our guilt—Colonization scheme impracticable—Wrong—Watkins quoted—All objections mere excuses—We must emancipate to escape the judgments of God—Too long delayed—A good examplepage 206 [Pg xii]
CHAPTER XVI.
WHAT OF THE NIGHT? ”

“ THERE IS HOPE IN GOD ONLY.
The government intensely pro-slavery—Political horizon lowering—The great denominations and benevolent societies heartily supporting slavery—Ecclesiastical heavens dark—Deep prejudices in the masses of the people—Douglass quoted—God is on the side of the oppressed—He is stirring the nation—Question cannot rest—Agitation goes on—Truth is on the side of the slave—Literature coming to his aid—A pure Church arising to plead his cause—“Toil and trust.”page 219 ”

“ CHAPTER XIV 158 Arkansas Constitutional Convention and New Constitution Adopted—Augustus H. Garland Elected Governor—My Letter from Madagascar on Learning of His Demise—General Grant's Nomination in 1872 at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia—Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana—William H. Gray, of Arkansas—R. B. Elliot, of South Carolina—"Henry at Ajincourt"—Study of Obsolete Languages Versus Industrial Education—Views of Lord Rosebery, ex-Premier of England—Also of Washington Post—United States Have Supreme Advantages for the Negro. ”

“ ISAAC FORMAN, WILLIAM DAVIS AND WILLIS REDICK.
Hearts full of joy for Freedom—Very anxious for Wives in Slavery.
JOSEPH HENRY CAMP
Sold, the day he escaped, for Fourteen Hundred Dollars—Slave Trader loses his Bargain. ”

“ The Negroes of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War W. B. Hartgrove: The Story of Maria Louise Moore and Fannie M. Richards Monroe N. Work: The Passing Tradition and the African Civilization A. O. Stafford: The Mind of the African Negro as reflected in his Proverbs Documents: What the Negro was thinking during the Eighteenth Century. Letters showing the Rise and Progress of the early Negro Churches of Georgia and The West Indies. Reviews of Books: Steward's Haitian Revolution; Cromwell's The Negro in American History; Ellis's Negro Culture in West Africa ”

“ Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia John H. Paynter, A.M.: The Fugitives of the Pearl Benjamin Brawley: Lorenzo Dow Louis R. Mehlinger: The Attitude Of The Free Negro Toward African Colonization Documents: Transplanting Free Negroes to Ohio From 1815 to 1858: Blacks and Mulattoes, New Style Colonization, Freedom in a Free State, The Randolph Slaves, The Republic of Liberia. ”

“ CHAPTER XXIV 282 Cuba and the Philippines—Their Acquisition Under the Plea of Relief From Spanish Misrule—Aguinaldo, Leader of the Filipinos—The Fidelity and Bravery of the American Negro in the Spanish War—Attestation by Many Witnesses—Industrial Education—Othello's Occupation Gone When Polls are Closed. ”

“ People of Color in Louisiana, Part I William T. McKinney: The Defeat of the Secessionists in Kentucky in 1861 J. Kunst: Notes on Negroes in Guatemala During the Seventeenth Century; A Mulatto Corsair of the Sixteenth Century Documents: Travelers' Impressions of Slavery in America from 1750 to 1800: Burnaby's View of the Situation in Virginia; General Treatment of Slaves Among the Albanians--Consequent Attachment of Domestics.--Reflections on Servitude by an American Lady; Impressions of an English Traveler; Abbé Robin on Conditions in Virginia ”

“ CHAPTER XXVII 312 Leave-taking, its Jollity and Sadness—Arrival at Camp Aden, Arabia—An Elysium for the Toper—Whisky Was Plenty, But the Water Was Out—Pleasant Visit to U. S. Consul Cunningham, of Knoxville, Tenn.—Arrival at Suez—My Visit to the U. S. Cruiser "New York"—The Urbanity of Captain Rogers—Suez Canal—Port Said—"Mal de Mer"—Marseilles to Paris—Across the English Channel to London. ”

“ Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America A. O. Stafford: Antar, The Arabian Negro Warrior, Poet and Hero Documents: Eighteenth Century Slaves As Advertised By Their Masters; Learning a Modern Language; Learning to Read and Write; Educated Negroes; Slaves in Good Circumstances; Negroes Brought from The West Indies; Various Kinds of Servants; Negro Privateers and Soldiers Prior to The American Revolution; Relations Between the Slaves and the British During The Revolutionary War; Relations Between the Slaves And the French During The Colonial Wars; Colored Methodist Preachers Among the Slaves ”

“ Letter from an African Minister, Resident in Philadelphia Addressed to Dorothy Ripley. Letter from an African, resident in Philadelphia, to Dorothy Ripley Reviews of Books: Clayton's The Aftermath of the Civil War, in Arkansas; Evans's Black and White in the Southern States; Sayers's Samuel Coleridge-Taylor--Musician. His Life and Letters; Bailey's Race Orthodoxy in the South and Other Aspects of the Negro Problem ”

“ TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE NARRATIVE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP, A CITIZEN OF NEW-YORK, KIDNAPPED IN WASHINGTON CITY IN 1841, AND RESCUED IN 1853 FROM A COTTON PLANTATION NEAR THE RED RIVER, IN LOUISIANA. Buffalo: Derby, Orton And Mulligan. 1853 ”

“ Colonization
3. Slavery
CHAPTER VII THE NEGRO REPLYâ?" I: REVOLT 1. Denmark Vesey's Insurrection
2. Nat Turner's Insurrection
3. The Amistad and Creole Cases
CHAPTER VIII THE NEGRO REPLYâ?"II: ORGANIZATION AND AGITATION 1. Walker's "Appeal"
2. The Convention Movement
3. Sojourner Truth and Woman Suffrage
CHAPTER IX LIBERIA 1. The Place and the People
2. History
(a) Colonization and Settlement
(b) The Commonwealth of Liberia
(c) The Republic of Liberia
3. International Relations
4. Economic and Social Conditions
CHAPTER X THE NEGRO A NATIONAL ISSUE 1. ”

“ Redman—I go to Havana, resolved to obtain a release from Blanco, and engage in lawful commerce—Don Pedro refuses, and sends me back with a freight—A voyage with two African females revisiting their native country—Their story in Cuba; results of frugality and industry—Shiakar’s daughter—Her reception at home—Her disgust with her savage home in Africa, and return to Cuba 396 CHAP. LXV.—I find my establishment in danger, from the colonists and others—A correspondence with Lieut. ”

“ Slaves in Other Professions; Close Relations of the Slaves and Indentured Servants. Reviews of Books: Dubois's The Negro; Roman's The American Civilization and the Negro; Henry's The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina ”

“ FROM RICHMOND AND NORFOLK, VA.
William B. White, Susan Brooks, and Wm. Henry Atkinson.
FOUR ARRIVALS.
Charlotte and Harriet escape in deep Mourning—White Lady and Child with a Colored Coachman—Three likely Young Men from Baltimore—Four large and two Small Hams—U.G.R.R. Passengers Travelling with their Master's Horses and Carriage—Six Passengers on two Horses, &c.
FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON, D.C. AND SOUTH CAROLINA. CHARLES GILBERT,
Fleeing from Davis, a Negro Trader—Secreted under a Hotel—Up a Tree—Under a Floor—In a Thicket—On a Steamer. ”

“ Kind slaveholders—Examples—Excusable slaveholders—Slavery a political matter—Fault of the public corruption—Fault of the laws—Slaveholders from necessity—Slaves their property—All right ONLY this one thing—Take them in to convince them of the wrong—Mr. ”

“ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of Solomon in his Plantation Suit Scene in the Slave Pen at Washington, Separation of Eliza and her last Child, Chapin rescues Solomon from Hanging, The Staking out and Flogging of the girl Patsey, Scene in the Cotton Field, and Solomon's Delivery, Arrival Home, and first meeting with his Wife and Children,
FROM SLAVE TO COLLEGE PRESIDENT BEING THE LIFE STORY OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON By G. Holden Pike
CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. WANTED: A MAN—THE MAN FOUND 1 II. THE ERA OF FREEDOM—REALISING THAT KNOWLEDGE IS POWER 16 III. OFF TO HAMPTON—WAS HE A LIKELY CANDIDATE? ”

“ The Mistress' Garden—The Crimson and Golden Fruit—Orange and Pomegranate Trees—Return to Bayou Bœuf—Master Ford's Remarks on the way—The Meeting-with Tibeats—His Account of the Chase—Ford censures his Brutality—Arrival at the Plantation—Astonishment of the Slaves on seeing me—The anticipated Flogging—Kentucky John—Mr. ”

“ The Challenge of the Abolitionists
3. The Contest
CHAPTER XI SOCIAL PROGRESS, 1820-1860 CHAPTER XII THE CIVIL WAR AND EMANCIPATION CHAPTER XIII THE ERA OF ENFRANCHISEMENT 1. The Problem
2. Meeting the Problem
3. Reaction: The Ku-Klux Klan
4. Counter-Reaction: The Negro Exodus
5. A Postscript on the War and Reconstruction
CHAPTER XIV THE NEGRO IN THE NEW SOUTH 1. Political Life: Disfranchisement
2. Economic Life: Peonage
3. Social Life: Proscription, Lynching
CHAPTER XV "THE VALE OF TEARS," 1890-1910 1. Current Opinion and Tendencies
2. Industrial Education: Booker T. Washington
3. ”

“ CHAPTER VI 59 Gold Discovery in British Columbia—Incidents on Shipboard and Arrival at Victoria—National Unrest in 1859—"Irrepressible Conflict"—Garrison and Douglass—Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frances Ellen Harper—John Brown of Harper's Ferry—"Fugitive Slave Law"—Flight to Canada. CHAPTER VII 74 Abraham Lincoln President—Rebellion Inaugurated—Success of the Union Army—Re-Election of Lincoln—Bravery and Endurance of Negro Soldiers—Assassination of Lincoln—Lynching Denounced by Southern Governors and Statesmen—Words of Wisdom from St. ”

“ EMANUEL T. WHITE.
"Would rather Fight than Eat".
THE ESCAPE OF A CHILD FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD.
Letter from "J.B."—Letters from E.L. Stevens ... Great Anxiety and Care.
ESCAPE OF A YOUNG SLAVE MOTHER.
Baby, Little Girl and Husband left Behind—Three Hundred Dollars Reward Offered.
SAMUEL W. JOHNSON.
Arrival from the Richmond Daily Dispatch Office—"Uncle Tom's Cabin" turned Sam's Brain—Affecting Letters.
FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE.
Stephen Amos alias Henry Johnson, Harriet alias Mary Jane Johnson, and their four children, Ann Rebecca, William H., Elizabeth and Mary Ellen. ”

“ At Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England, May 12, Dr. Campbell’s Reply LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. [11] . To My Old Master, Thomas Auld THE NATURE OF SLAVERY. Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?. Extract from an Oration, at THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July THE SLAVERY PARTY. Extract from a Speech Delivered before the A. A. S. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. Extracts from a Lecture before Various FOOTNOTES ”

“ CHAPTER XVII 195 Honorary Commissioner for the Colored Exhibits of the World's Exposition at New Orleans, La.—Neglected Opportunities—Important Factors Necessary to Recognition. CHAPTER XVIII 201 Effort of Henry Brown, of Oberlin, Ohio, to Establish "Schools of Trade"—Call for a Conference of Leading Colored Men in 1885—Industrial Fair at Pine Bluff, Ark.—Captain Thompson, of the "Capital Guards," a Colored Military Company—Meeting of Prominent Leaders at New Orleans—The Late N. W. Cuney, of Texas—Contented Benefactions from Christian Churches. ”

“ The Curious Axe-Helve—Symptoms of approaching Illness—Continue to decline—The Whip ineffectual—Confined [Pg xi] to the Cabin—Visit by Dr. Wines—Partial Recovery—Failure at Cotton Picking—What may be heard on Epps' Plantation—Lashes Graduated—Epps in a Whipping Mood—Epps in a Dancing Mood—Description of the Dance—Loss of Rest no Excuse—Epps' Characteristics—Jim Burns—Removal from Huff Power to Bayou Bœuf—Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley; of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey ”

“ Levi Coffin receiving a company of fugitives in the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio Frontispiece FACING PAGE Isaac T. Hopper 17 The Runaway: a stereotype cut used on handbills advertising escaped slaves 27 Crossing-place on the Ohio River at Steubenville, Ohio 47 The Rankin House, Ripley, Ohio 47 Facsimile of an Underground Message On page 57 Barn of Seymour Finney, Detroit, Michigan 65 The Old First Church, Galesburg, Illinois 65 William Still 75 Levi Coffin 87 Frederick Douglass 104 Caves in Salem Township, Washington County, Ohio 130 House of Mrs. ”

“ CHAPTER V. MAIMED FOR LIFE. 31 Taking care of my drunken master.—His fight with an overseer.—Rescue him.—Am terribly beaten by the overseer.—My master seeks redress at law, but fails.—Sufferings then and since.—Retain my post as superintendent. CHAPTER VI. A RESPONSIBLE JOURNEY. 42 My marriage.—Marriage of my master.—His ruin.—Comes to me for aid.—A great enterprise undertaken.—Long and successful journey.—Incidents by the way.—Struggle between inclination and duty.—Duty triumphant. ”

“ IN THE TIN SHOP 300 STUDENTS CANNING FRUIT 308 STARTING A NEW BUILDING 314 Student masons laying the foundation in brick. GIRLS GARDENING 344
SHADOW and LIGHT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY With Reminiscences Of The Last And Present Century. By Mifflin Wistar Gibbs With An Introduction By Booker T. Washington CONTENTS CHAPTER I 3 Parents, School and Teacher—Foundation of the Negroes' Mechanical Knowledge—First Brick A. M. E. Church—Bishop Allen—Olive Cemetery—Harriet Smith Home—"Underground Railroad"—Incidents on the Road—William and Ellen Craft—William Box Brown. ”