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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

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 of Ohio, etc. ; in two volumes ; volume I, 1619-1800[-volume II, 1800-1880].
Author: Williams, George Washington, 1849-1891.
Publication: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 27 and 29 West 23rd Street, 1882-1883.

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.

Description

2 v. : port.; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

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Note

Vol. 1: xix, [1], 481, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [2], xiii, [1], 611, [1] p.

Indexed In (note)

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

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

Vol. 1. pt. 1. Preliminary considerations. The unity of mankind -- The Negro in the light of philology, ethnology, and Egyptology -- Primitive Negro civilization -- Negro kingdoms of Africa -- The Ashantee Empire -- The Negro type -- African idiosyncrasies -- Languages, literature, and religion -- Sierra Leone -- The Republic of Liberia -- pt. 2. Slavery in the colonies. The colony of Virginia, 1619-1775 -- The colony of New York, 1628-1775 -- The colony of Massachusetts, 1633-1775 -- The colony of Massachusetts, continued, 1633-1775 -- The colony of Maryland, 1634-1775 -- The colony of Delaware, 1636-1775 -- The colony of Connecticut, 1646-1775 -- The colony of Rhode Island, 1647-1775 -- The colony of New Jersey, 1664-1775 -- The colony of South Carolina, 1665-1775 -- The colony of North Carolina, 1669-1775 -- The colony of Pennsylvania, 1681-1775 -- The colony of Georgia, 1732-1775 -- pt. 3. The Negro during the Revolution. Military employment of negroes, 1775-1780 -- Negroes as soldiers, 1775-1783 -- Legal status of the Negro during the Revolution, 1775-1783 -- The Negro intellect, Banneker the astronomer, Fuller the mathematician, Derham the physician -- Slavery during the Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Slavery as a political and legal problem, 1775-1800.
Vol. 2 pt. 4. Conservative era. Negroes in the Army and Navy. Restriction and extension, 1800-1825 -- Negro troops in the War of 1812 -- Negroes in the Navy -- pt. 5. Anti-slavery agitation. Retrospection and reflection, 1825-1850 -- Anti-slavery methods -- Anti-slavery efforts of free Negroes -- Negro insurrectionists -- The "Amistad" captives -- pt. 6. The period of preparation. Southern sympathy and southern subterfuge, 1850-1860 -- The "Black laws" of "border states" -- The northern Negroes -- Negro school laws, 1619-1860 -- John Brown, hero and martyr -- pt. 7. The Negro in the war for the Union. Definition of the war issue -- "A white man's war" -- The Negro on fatigue duty -- The emancipation proclamations -- Employment of Negroes as soldiers -- Negroes as soldiers -- Capture and treatment of Negro soldiers -- pt. 8. The first decade of freedom. Reconstruction, misconstruction, 1865-1875 -- The results of emancipation -- Representative colored men -- The African Methodist Episcopal Church -- The Methodist Episcopal Church -- The colored Baptists of America -- pt. 8. The decline of Negro governments. Reaction, peril and pacification, 1875-1880 -- The exodus, cause and effect -- Retrospection and prospection.

Call Number

Sc Rare 973-W (Williams, G.W. History of the Negro race...1883)

LCCN

09003580

OCLC

3590160

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 of Ohio, etc. ; in two volumes ; volume I, 1619-1800[-volume II, 1800-1880].

Imprint

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 27 and 29 West 23rd Street, 1882-1883.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 11238

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973-W (accession nos B526333, B526323) 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

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.

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

Other Form:

Online version: Williams, George Washington, 1849-1891. History of the Negro race in America from 1619 to 1880. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883 (OCoLC)651779430

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 973-W (Williams, G.W. History of the Negro race...1883)

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