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Additional authors

1. Lee and Shepard, publisher.
2. Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.

Description

1. xvi, 380 p.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Participation, African American
2. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans
3. African American soldiers > History
4. Black author
5. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American
6. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > African Americans

Contents

1. ch. 1. Blacks in the Revolutionary War and in 1812 -- ch. 2. The South-Carolina fright -- ch. 3. The Nat Turner insurrection -- ch. 4. Slave revolt at sea -- ch. 5. Growth of the slave-power -- ch. 6. The John Brown raid -- ch. 7. The first gun of the rebellion -- ch. 8. The Union and slavery both to be preserved -- ch. 9. Intelligent contrabands -- ch. 10. Proclamations of Fremont and Hunter -- ch. 11. Heroism of Negroes on the high seas -- ch. 12. General Butler at New Orleans -- ch. 13. The District of Columbia free -- ch. 14. The black brigade of Cincinnati -- ch. 15. Proclamation of freedom -- ch. 16. The new policy -- ch. 17. Arming the blacks -- ch. 18. Battle of Milliken's Bend -- ch. 19. Raising black regiments at the North -- ch. 20. Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment -- ch. 21. Blacks under fire in South Carolina -- ch. 22. Freedmen under fire in Mississippi -- ch. 23. Battle of Port Hudson -- ch. 24. General Banks in Louisiana -- ch. 25. Honors of the noble dead -- ch. 26. The northern wing of the rebellion -- ch. 27. Assault on Fort Wagner -- ch. 28. The slave-martyr -- ch. 29. Battle of Olustee, Florida -- ch. 30. Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas -- ch. 31. The massacre at Fort Pillow -- ch. 32. Injustice to colored troops -- ch. 33. Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina -- ch. 34. Before Petersburg and Richmond -- ch. 35. Wit and humor of the war -- ch. 36. A thrilling incident of the war -- ch. 37. Progress and justice -- ch. 38. Fourth-of-July celebration at the home of Jeff. Davis -- ch. 39. Gallantry, loyalty, and kindness of the Negro -- ch. 40. Fall of the Confederacy, and death of President Lincoln -- ch. 41. President Andrew Johnson -- ch. 42. Ill treatment of colored people south -- ch. 43. Protection for the colored people --ch. 44. Caste -- ch. 45. Sixth Regiment United-States Volunteers.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 973.7-B (Brown, W. W. Negro in the American rebellion)

Note

1. "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by William Wells Brown, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
2. "Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printers and stereotypers."--printer statment, verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

1. The Negro in the American rebellion : his heroism and his fidelity / by William Wells Brown, author of "Sketches of places and people abroad," "The black man," etc.

Imprint

1. Boston : Lee & Shepard, 149 Washington Street, 1867.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1731

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 973.7-B (accession no. B593847) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Lee and Shepard, publisher.
2. Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. nuc87383297

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 973.7-B (Brown, W. W. Negro in the American rebellion)