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A school history of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1890 : with a short introduction as to the origin of the race : also a short sketch of Liberia
- Title
- A school history of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1890 : with a short introduction as to the origin of the race : also a short sketch of Liberia / by Edward A. Johnson, L.L.B., principal of the Washington School, Raleigh, N.C.
- Author
- Johnson, Edward A. (Edward Austin), 1860-1944.
- Publication
- [Raleigh, N.C.? : s.n., c1891?]
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Details
- Description
- 200 p. : ill., ports.; 20 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Participation, African American
- African American soldiers > History
- Black author
- African Americans > History > Textbooks
- Liberia
- Slavery > United States > History
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Genre/Form
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Note
- "Copyright, 1891, by Edward A. Johnson, LL.B., Raleigh, N.C."--verso of title page.
- Includes index.
- Provenance (note)
- with the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Beginning of slavery in the colonies -- ch. 3. The New York colony -- ch. 4. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut -- ch. 5. New Hampshire and Maryland -- ch. 6. Delaware and Pennsylvania -- ch. 7. North Carolina -- ch. 8. South Carolina -- ch. 9. Georgia -- ch. 10. Habits and customs of the southern colonies -- ch. 11. Negro soldiers in Revolutionary times -- ch. 12. Negro heroes of the Revolution -- ch. 13. The War of 1812 -- ch. 14. Efforts for freedom -- ch. 15. Frederick Douglass -- ch. 16. Liberia -- ch. 17. Nat. Turner and others who struck for freedom -- ch. 18. Anti-slavery agitation -- ch. 19. Examples of underground railroad work -- ch. 20. Slave population of 1860 -- ch. 21. The War of the Rebellion -- ch. 22. Employment of Negro soldiers -- ch. 23. Fort Pillow -- ch. 24. Around Petersburg -- ch. 25. The Crater -- ch. 26. Incidents of the war -- ch. 27. The end of the war -- ch. 28. Reconstruction, 1865-68 -- ch. 29. Progress since freedom -- ch. 30. Religious progress -- ch. 31. Educational progress -- ch. 32. Financial progress -- ch. 33. Some noted Negroes -- ch. 34. Free people of color in North Carolina -- ch. 35. Conclusion -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 973-J (Johnson, E. School history of the Negro race in America. 1891)
- OCLC
- 6660818
- NYPGR6660818-B
- Author
- Johnson, Edward A. (Edward Austin), 1860-1944.
- Title
- A school history of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1890 : with a short introduction as to the origin of the race : also a short sketch of Liberia / by Edward A. Johnson, L.L.B., principal of the Washington School, Raleigh, N.C.
- Imprint
- [Raleigh, N.C.? : s.n., c1891?]
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 973-J (accession no. B526286) with the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 973-J (Johnson, E. School history of the Negro race in America. 1891)