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Additional authors

1. Williams, Fannie Barrier.
2. Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton), 1857-1933.

Description

1. 428 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. African American women > Societies and clubs
2. Slavery > United States > History
3. African Americans > History
4. United States > Race relations > History
5. African Americans > Social conditions > History
6. Bookplates (Provenance)
7. African American soldiers > History
8. Black author
9. Spanish-American War, 1898 > Participation, African American
10. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

1. Bookplates (Provenance)
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. ch. 1. Causes of the Spanish-American War -- ch. 2. Afro-American volunteers and regiments sent to the Philippines -- ch. 3. Afro-American regulars in Cuba -- ch. 4. Afro-American regulars in Cuba (continued) -- ch. 5. The peace treaty -- ch. 6. Afro-American education -- ch. 7. Slavery in the colonies -- ch. 8. Negro soldiers in the Revolution -- ch. 9. Slavery and the Constitution and Declaration of Independence -- ch. 10. Slavery unmasked -- ch. 11. Underground Railroads -- ch. 12. Heroes and martyrs -- ch. 13. Black Phalanx in the Rebellion -- ch. 14. Exodus and settlement in the north and west -- ch. 15. Kentucky's hospitality -- ch. 16. Fathers to the race -- ch. 17. The club movement among colored women in America -- ch. 18. The clubs and their location in all the states of the National Association of Colored Women and their mission.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 973-N (New Negro for a new century)

Note

1. First frontispiece listed in "Illustrations" (p. 9), "Buildings and grounds of Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial Institute", not included in publication?
2. "Copyright by J.E. MacBrady. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; 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.

Author

1. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.

Title

1. A new Negro for a new century : an accurate and up-to-date record of the upward struggles of the Negro race : the Spanish-American War, causes of it : vivid descriptions of fierce battle : superb heroism and daring deeds of the Negro soldier : "colored officers or no colored soldiers" the closing of the war and the peace treaty : education, industrial schools, colleges, universities, and their relationship to the race problem / by Prof. Booker T. Washington ; Reconstruction and industrial advancement by N.B. Wood, the historian ; The colored woman and her part in race regeneration, the names and location of the clubs in the National Association of Colored Women of the United States and their benefits to our sisters in black, by famous club woman, writer and author Fannie Barrier Williams ; magnificently illustrated.

Imprint

1. Chicago, Ill. : American Publishing House 352, 354, 356 Dearborn Street, [1900]

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 973-N (accession no. B526365) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; 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

Local note

1. Copy in Sc Rare 973-N imperfect; lacking frontispiece leaf of plate with portrait of Booker T. Washington. NN

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
2. Full text available via HathiTrust (Emory University copy)

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Williams, Fannie Barrier.
2. Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton), 1857-1933.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

LCCN

1. 00005252

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 973-N (New Negro for a new century)