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Title

History of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1880 : Negroes as slaves, as soldiers, and as citizens : together with a preliminary consideration of the unity of the human family, an historical sketch of Africa, and an account of the Negro governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia / By George W. Williams, first colored member of the Ohio Legislature, and late judge advocate of the Grand Army of the Republic, etc.

Author

Williams, George Washington, 1849-1891.

Publication

New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons : The Knickerbocker Press, 1885.

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Additional Authors

• G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher, printer.
• Knickerbocker Press, publisher.
• Western Biographical Publishing Company (Cincinnati, Ohio), printer of plates.
• E.G. Williams & Bro. (New York, N.Y.), engraver.

Description

2 v. in 1 : port.; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

History of the Negro race in America 1800 to 1880

Subjects

• Black race
• Liberia > Politics and government
• African Americans > History > 1863-1877
• Liberia > History
• Black race > History
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• African Americans > History > To 1863
• Sierra Leone > History
• Sierra Leone > Politics and government
• African American soldiers
• Black author
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Slavery > United States > History

Genre/Form

• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright, by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882."--verso of title page.
• "Press of G. P. Putnam's Sons New York."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Pagination: xix, 481, xiii, 611 p., [1] leaf of plates.
• Vol. 2 has half-title only.
• Frontispiece portrait signed: Western Biog. Pub. Co.; Eng. by E.G. Williams & Bro. N.Y.
• Includes index.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Edith Olcott, Monmouth Beach N.J. 1885." ; With the ink stamp on back of frontispiece leaf: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• v. 1. 1619 to 1800 -- v. 2. 1800 to 1880.
• v. 1. pt. 1. Preliminary considerations: ch. 1. The unity of mankind ; ch. 2. The Negro in the light of philology, ethnology, and Egyptology ; ch. 3. Primitive Negro civilization ; ch. 4. Negro kingdoms of Africa ; ch. 5.. The Ashantee empire ; ch. 6. The Negro type ; ch. 7. African Idiosyncrasies ; ch. 8. Languages, literature, and religion ; ch. 9. Sierra Leone ; ch. 10. The Republic of Liberia ; ch. 11. Résumé -- pt. 2. Slavery in the colonies: ch. 12. The colony of Virginia. 1619-1775 ; ch. 13. The colony of New York. 1628-1775 ; ch. 14. The colony of Massachusetts. 1633-1775 ; ch. 15. The colony of Massachusetts, continued. 1633-1775 ; ch. 16. The colony of Maryland, 1634-1775 ; ch. 17. The colony of Delaware. 1636-1775 ; ch. 18. The colony of Connecticut. 1646-1775 ; ch. 19. The colony of Rhode Island. 1647-1775 ; ch. 20. The colony of New Jersey, 1664-1775 ; ch. 21. The colony of South Carolina. 1665-1775 ; ch. 22. The colony of North Carolina. 1669-1775 ; ch. 23. The colony of New Hampshire. 1679-1775 ; ch. 24. The colony ofPennsylvania. 1681-1775 ; ch. 25. The colony of Georgia. 1732-1775 -- pt. 3. The Negro during the Revolution: ch. 26. Military employment of Negroes, 1775-1780 ; ch. 27. Negroes as soldiers. 1775-1783 ; ch. 28. Legal status of the Negro during the Revolution. 1775-1783 ; ch. 29. The Negro intellect. Banneker the astronomer. Fuller the mathematician. Derham the physician ; ch. 30. Slavery during the Revolution. 1775-1783 ; ch. 31. Slavery as a political and legal problem. 1775-1800.
• v. 2. pt. 4. Conservative era-- Negroes in the army and navy: ch. 1. Restriction and extension. 1800-1825 ; ch. 2. Negro troops in the War of 1812 ; ch. 3. Negroes in the navy -- pt. 5. Anti-slavery agitation: ch. 4. Retrospection and reflection, 1825-1850 ; ch. 5. Anti-slavery methods ; ch. 6. Anti-slavery efforts of free negroes ; ch. 7. Negro insurrections ; ch. 8. The "Amistad" captives -- pt. 6. The period of preparation: ch. 9. Northern sympathy and Southern subterfuges. 1850-1860 ; ch. 10. The "Black laws" of "border states" ; ch. 11. The northern Negroes ; ch. 12. Negro school laws. 1619-1860 ; ch. 13. John Brown, hero and martyr -- pt. 7. The Negro in the war for the Union: ch. 14. Definition of the war issue ; ch. 15. "A white man's war" ; ch. 16. The Negro on fatigue duty ; ch. 17. The Emancipation Proclamations ; ch. 18. Employment of negroes as soldiers ; ch. 19. Negroes as soldiers ; ch. 20. Capture and treatment of Negro soldiers -- pt. 8. The first decade of freedom: ch. 21. Reconstruction, misconstruction. 1865-1875 ; ch. 22. The results of emancipation ; ch. 23. Representative colored men ; ch. 24. The African Methodist Episcopal Church ; ch. 25. The Methodist Episcopal Church ; ch. 26. The colored Baptists of America -- pt. 9. The decline of Negro governments: ch. 27. Reaction, peril, and pacification. 1875-1880 ; ch. 28. The exodus, cause and effect ; ch. 29. Retrospection and prospection.

Call Number

Sc 973-W (Williams, G. History of the Negro race in America. 1885)

OCLC

• 6510556
• NYPGR6510556-B

Author

Williams, George Washington, 1849-1891.

Title

History of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1880 : Negroes as slaves, as soldiers, and as citizens : together with a preliminary consideration of the unity of the human family, an historical sketch of Africa, and an account of the Negro governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia / By George W. Williams, first colored member of the Ohio Legislature, and late judge advocate of the Grand Army of the Republic, etc.

Imprint

New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons : The Knickerbocker Press, 1885.

Edition

Popular edition / two volumes in one.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973-W (accession no. B526706) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Edith Olcott, Monmouth Beach N.J. 1885." ; With the ink stamp on back of frontispiece leaf: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher, printer.

Knickerbocker Press, publisher.

Western Biographical Publishing Company (Cincinnati, Ohio), printer of plates.

E.G. Williams & Bro. (New York, N.Y.), engraver.

Olcott, Edith (of Monmouth Beach, N.J.), former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 973-W (Williams, G. History of the Negro race in America. 1885)

Sc Rare 973-W (Williams, G. History of the Negro race in America. 1885)