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The Journal of Negro History.by Various.VOL 1.THE NEGROES OF CINCINNATI PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR The study of the history of the Negroes of Cincinnati is unusually important for the reason that from no other annals do we get such striking evidence that the
- 101 In the press and periodicals of our country we read that the cla.s.sics are doomed and about to pa.s.s out of our lives, but the cla.s.sics can never die. I sometimes dream of a magical time when the sun and moon will be larger than now and the sky more b
- 102 Hemingway, was an a.s.sured fact. The Democrats, however, had decided that the time had come for the State to be "_redeemed_," peaceably and fairly if possible, violently and unfairly if necessary. With George M. Buchanan as the Republican candidate, it
- 103 We receive no mulatto consuls or black amba.s.sadors. And why? Because the peace of eleven states in this Union will not permit the fruits of a successful Negro insurrection to be exhibited among them.... Who are to advise and sit in judgment upon it? Fiv
- 104 [436] _Congressional Globe_, 25th Congress, 3d Session, p. 219.[437] _Ibid._, p. 220.[438] _Ibid._, p. 241, March 4, 1839.[439] _Ibid._, 26th Congress, 1st Session, p. 164.[440] Garrison and Garrison, "Life of Garrison," Vol. 2, p. 248._Liberator_, 9:3.
- 105 With the exception of a few noteworthy individuals, conscious literary effort on the part of the Negro in America is, of course, a matter of comparatively recent years. Decades before Emanc.i.p.ation, however, there were those who yearned toward poetry as
- 106 [477] This paper was read at the biennial meeting of the a.s.sociation held in Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C., on August 29, 1917.CATHOLICS AND THE NEGRO In order to understand and to gain an adequate idea of what Catholics and their ancient Church have done for t
- 107 [479] Aristotle, "Politics," I, 3-4.[480] Plato, "The Laws," VI, p. 233.[481] Cardinal Gibbons, "Our Christian Heritage," pp. 416-420.[482] Cardinal Gibbons, "Our Christian Heritage," p. 432.[483] Cardinal Gibbons, "Our Christian Heritage," pp.
- 108 "_Gentlemen_, "The difficulty of getting waggoners and the enormous wages given them would tempt one to try any expedient to answer the end of easier and cheaper terms. Among others it has occurred to me whether it would not be eligible to hire negroes
- 109 The Dutch government has declared that it will not abolish slavery without indemnifying the owners, and for this reason it has not given any formal sanction to the liberty which the Dutch governor of St. Martin's (with the consent of the planters) found
- 110 [530] Knox, "An Historical Account of St. Thomas, West Indies," pp.255-261.[531] This doc.u.ment and the Will of Robert Pleasants were collected by Mr. M. N. Work.[532] Annual Cyclopedia, 1867, pp. 19, 20.REVIEWS OF BOOKS _History of South Africa from 1
- 111 _La Revista Bimestre Cubana_ has published Los _Negros Esclavos_, a study in sociology and public law by Fernando Ortiz, professor in the University of Havana.The United States Bureau of Education in cooperation with the Phelps-Stokes Fund has published i
- 112 The Journal of Negro History.by Various.Volume III 1918 THE STORY OF JOSIAH HENSON[1]No one ever uttered a more forceful truth than Frederika Bremer when she said in speaking to Americans: "The fate of the Negro is the romance of your history." The sket
- 113 BENJAMIN BRAWLEY FOOTNOTES: [8] For the inscription we are indebted to the Cambridge edition of the poems of Mrs. Browning, edited by Harriet Waters Preston, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, p. xii. Translation: Here wrote and died Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wh
- 114 FOOTNOTES: [16] Bourne, "_Spain in America_," 271.[17] _California Miscellany_, I, 9.[18] Bancroft, "_History of California_," I, 175; _Place Notices_, I, 151.[19] Hittell, "_History of California_," II, 115.[20] Garrison, "_Westward Extension_,"
- 115 SAMUEL GRANTHAN to ALECK LONG STATE OF CALIFORNIA ELDORADO COUNTY Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Grantham of the county and state aforesaid, acting by power of Attorney vested in me by S. Oliver Grantham of St Louis, State of Missouri, actin
- 116 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. } Before the Hon. Benjamin Hayes, Judge of the District Court of the 1st Judicial District, State of California, County of Los Angeles.[47]In the matter of Hannah and her children, Ann (and Mary, child of Ann), Lawrence, Nathaniel,
- 117 In his _Notes on Virginia_ Jefferson discusses all of the phases of slavery as they appeared to him at that time. He took up the justification of the inst.i.tution of slavery among the Romans, the enslavement of the Indian and the Negroes, the cause of th
- 118 The General a.s.sembly (of Virginia) shall not have power to ...permit the introduction of any more slaves to reside in this State, or the continuance of slavery beyond the generation which shall be living on the 31st day of December, 1800; all persons bo
- 119 Whatever may have been the circ.u.mstances which influenced our forefathers to permit the introduction of personal bondage into any part of these States, and to partic.i.p.ate in the wrongs committed on an unoffending quarter of the globe, we may rejoice
- 120 [61] To General Chastellux, who had proposed to publish in a French scientific paper certain extracts from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, he wrote the following in 1785: The strictures on slavery (in the Notes on Virginia) ... I do not wish to have made
- 121 [110] _Ibid._, V, p. 296.[111] _Ibid._, VI, p. 349.[112] Ford edition of _Jefferson's Writings_, VII, p. 168.[113] _Ibid._, VII, p. 167.[114] _Ibid._, VIII, p. 340.[115] Ford edition of _Jefferson's Writings_, VIII, p. 104.[116] _Ibid._, VIII, p. 162.[1
- 122 In the discussion of a program for educational development, it is pointed out that the public school authorities are responsible for elementary education and that so long as the elementary school facilities are insufficient, every phase of education above
- 123 As a boy at school young Banneker is said to have spent very little, if any, of his time in the games and frolics that const.i.tute so large a part of the school life of the average youth. He was unusually fond of study, devoting by far the larger part of
- 124 B. Latrobe in _Maryland Historical Society Publications_, I, p. 8.[148] Ford edition of _Jefferson's Writings_, V, p. 379.[149] In the memoir of Banneker, above mentioned, read before the Maryland Historical Society in 1845, and in another memoir of Bann
- 125 As a youth George Liele had a natural fear of G.o.d, holding constantly in mind His condemnation of sin. Liele was converted through the preaching of the Reverend Matthew Moore,[188] who later baptized him.Desiring then to prove the sense of his obligatio
- 126 [204] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1798-1801, p. 368. _Ibid._, 1790-1793, p. 339.[205] Benedict, _History of the Baptists_, pp. 790-791.FIFTY YEARS OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY PART I[206]Howard University, in common with nearly all the larger private inst.i.tu
- 127 Later, when the new Freedmen's Hospital was about to be erected on that site the ground was transferred back to the University. The ground is now leased by the government from Howard University for a rental of one dollar a year.[222] William M. Patton, _
- 128 "The judiciary," the expert a.s.serts, "was the best department of government under Reconstruction in Mississippi," and yet the Judges were all appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. It goes without saying that if
- 129 GOVERNOR COLES TO RICHARD FLOWERS _Dear Sir_:--I would have made my acknowledgments to you long since for your kind letter of 13th of February, but for my having been prevented from writing by the bearer of it, from the haste with which he took his depart
- 130 If the least benefit results from this humble effort, it will administer to my happiness, which will be augmented by the reflection, that it owes its origin to thy own emphatic summons for aid, in a cause which demands the exercise of every generous and p
- 131 You have a circle at Vandalia chiefly, I fear, of the wrong sort in regard to the vital question, which circ.u.mstance must detract from your social enjoyment, where at best it could ill be spared.The cause in which you are engaged so heartily is so thoro
- 132 EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM GOVERNOR COLES TO JOHN RUTHERFORD I give you many thanks, my dear Sir, for your long and truly affectionate letter of February, and a.s.sure you, I feel great contrition for having so long delayed the expression of them, and of
- 133 Interesting from other points of view are the reproductions of the remarkable collection of Benin antiquities at the Peabody Museum, of the celebrated Vai syllabary, and of an interesting poem of 100 lines in the Suaheli language said to have been dictate
- 134 A group of Southern folks have organized a Southern Publicity Committee to advertise among themselves some of the South's constructive work in racial matters. They propose to furnish Southern daily papers with brief and accurate accounts of things actual
- 135 On March 4, 1780, soon after the establishment of the new system, he appeared at the land office in Richmond, Virginia, and was given three treasury warrants, each for four hundred acres of land in Kentucky.The first and third of these warrants were not r
- 136 FOR SALE A negro man, a first rate farm hand, about 27 years of age; and a very likely woman, the wife of the man, about 22 years of age, a good house servant. They will not be sold separately, or to any person wis.h.i.+ng to take them out of the State. E
- 137 [239] _Ibid._, Book 8, p. 228. [240] Shalers _Autobiography_, p. 33. [241] Michaux (Thwaites Reprint), _Travels to the West of the Allegheny Mountains_, Vol. 3, p. 237. [242] Shaler, N. S., _Kentucky_, p. 196. [243] Includes 182 Indians. [244] Includes 33
- 138 THE LEGAL STATUS OF SLAVERY Slavery in its more economic form naturally spread to the Kentucky district as the western frontier of Virginia became settled. Of the 293,427 slaves which were held in the State of Virginia in the year 1790, however, only 11,8
- 139 Although the abolitionists had looked forward to some advanced const.i.tutional provisions on emanc.i.p.ation and the inclusion of the law of 1833 in the organic law of the State they were astounded to be met with the virtual repeal of that statute by the
- 140 The actual number of manumissions which took place in Kentucky will no doubt never be known. Among the few statistics are those of the federal census for 1850 and 1860 and they include only the figures for the one census year. According to this source in
- 141 [329] _Ibid._, p. 85.[330] _Ibid._, p. 103.[331] Fairbank, pp. 144, 149.[332] _American Anti-slavery Society Report_, 1839, p. 90.[333] _American Anti-slavery Society Report_, 1839, pp. 93-94.[334] Chaddock, F. E., _Ohio before 1850_, p. 86.[335] McMaster
- 142 One would infer from this observation of apparently fair-minded men that slave unions were not very sacred affairs and that any disruption of them would amount to little, but in the same doc.u.ment these Presbyterian preachers give a back-handed complimen
- 143 [360] _Ibid._, September 27, 1848.[361] _Ibid._, May 16, 1849.[362] _Ibid._, December 10, 1851.[363] _Ibid._, December 22, 1852.[364] _Lexington Gazette_, April 12, 1806.[365] The best contemporary treatment of this subject in general is by Dr. R. J. Spur
- 144 In the year 1797 the same organization decided that slavery was a moral evil but on the question of whether those persons holding slaves were guilty of a moral evil they decided in the negative. As to what persons were guilty they were unable to decide an
- 145 We have seen that the general trend of public opinion from about 1798 had been progressively in favor of gradual emanc.i.p.ation provided it was coupled with some form of colonization which would remove the liberated Negroes from the State. Public sentime
- 146 [431] _Louisville Weekly Journal_, September 26, 1849.[432] _Niles' Register_, May 9, 1849. Clay, Ca.s.sius, _Memoirs_, pp.175-178. Collins, _History of Kentucky_, Vol. 1, p. 59.[433] Clay endeavored in his plan to be fair to all parties concerned, not o
- 147 Dr. H. K. W. k.u.mm's history of modern missionary work has appeared with imprint of MacMillan with the t.i.tle _African Missionary Heroes and Heroines_.Doubleday, Page and Company announce the appearance of _Education and Life_, by Doctor Francis Greenw
- 148 Persons who professed seriously to consider the future of slavery, therefore, saw that miscegenation and especially the general connection of white men with their female slaves introduced a mulatto race whose numbers would become dangerous, if the affecti
- 149 [479] _The Spirit of the Times_, October 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 1849.[480] Harriet Martineau, _Views of Slavery and Emanc.i.p.ation_, p. 10.[481] Hart, _Slavery and Abolition_, p. 182; _Censuses of the United States_.[482] Abdy, _North America_, I, p. 16
- 150 The Buxton, or Elgin a.s.sociation Settlement, in Kent county, western Ontario, was in many respects the most important attempt made before the Civil War to found a Negro refugee colony in Canada. In population, material wealth and general organization it
- 151 Carefully administering the affairs of the inst.i.tution, Dr. Patton was able to restore confidence in the minds of the public and of Congress.This accomplished, he was justified in arguing for federal aid on the ground that through this means alone was i
- 152 WHAT THE FRAMERS OF THE FEDERAL CONSt.i.tUTION THOUGHT OF THE NEGRO The first important discussion in the Convention of 1787 to reflect the att.i.tude of the framers of the Federal Const.i.tution toward the Negro, was whether or not slaves should be consi
- 153 it pa.s.sed in the affirmative. (Ayes--10; noes--1.) On the question to agree to Mr Wilson's motion It pa.s.sed in the affirmative (Ayes--9; noes--2.) It was then moved by Mr Wilson seconded by Mr Hamilton to adopt the following resolution, namely, "res
- 154 Resolved That at the end of ____ years from the meeting of the Legislature of the United-States and at the expiration of every ____ years thereafter the Legislature of the United States be required to apportion the representation of the several States acc
- 155 "Provided always that direct Taxation ought to be proportioned according to representation"which pa.s.sed unanimously in the affirmative.It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the first clause in the report from the first grand Commi
- 156 Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them Citizens & let them vote? Are they property? Why then is no other property included? The Houses in this City (Philada.) are worth more than all
- 157 McHenry has the following note on slavery for the twenty-second of August: Committed the remainder of the 4 sect. with the 5 and 6.The 4 sect promitting the importation of Slaves gave rise to much desultory debate.Every 5 slaves counted in representation
- 158 (58) This clause was the subject of a great diversity of sentiment in the convention. As the system was reported by the committee of detail, the provision was general, that such importation should not be prohibited, without confining it to any particular
- 159 The Committee of Style reported: No person legally held to service or labour in one state, escaping into another, shall in consequence of regulations subsisting therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the pa
- 160 [570] Elliot, _Debates_, IV, pp. 277-286.[571] Robertson, _Debates of the Convention of Virginia_, pp. 321-345.[572] _Annals of Congress_, 1st session, I, pp. 339-340.[573] Elliot, _Debates_, IX, pp. 72-104.[574] _Annals of Congress_, 1st session, II, pp.
- 161 ORVILLE HOLLIDAY._The American Cavalryman._ By HENRY F. DOWNING. The Neale Publis.h.i.+ng Company, New York, 1917. Pp. 306. Price $1.50.This is a Liberian romance written by Henry F. Downing, a colored man who evidently spent some years in Liberia. The di
- 162 _Lincoln, the Politician_, by T. Aaron Levy, and _Latest Lights on Abraham Lincoln_, and _War Time Memories_, works published by Badger and Revell respectively, are two important volumes throwing light on the Civil War. Among the Was.h.i.+ngton University
- 163 The Journal of Negro History.by Various.Volume IV 1919 PRIMITIVE LAW AND THE NEGRO The psychology of large bodies of men is a surprisingly difficult topic and it is often true that we are inclined to seek the explanation of phenomena in too recent a perio
- 164 Lemuel Haynes was a patriot of the Revolution. He early imbibed those great principles respecting "the rights of man," in defense of which the colonies fought Great Britain. In 1774 he enlisted as a minute man. Under the regulations of this enlistment h
- 165 The Society of Canada continued active right through the fifties and early sixties, not resting until the aim for which it had been founded had been accomplished. With the close of the Civil War there was a large emigration of Negroes back to their own la
- 166 LONDON, 10 April, 1773._Reverend Sir_, Desirous of being revived in your memory, I take this opportunity, by my good friend Mrs. Blacker, of sending you a printed piece, and a ma.n.u.script, both on a subject you and I frequently conversed upon with concu
- 167 HISTORICUS.[5]FOOTNOTES: [1] _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_, II, p. 517.[2] _Ibid._, II, pp. 518-519.[3] _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_, II, pp. 519-520.[4] _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_, II, pp. 520-521.[5] _Ibid._, II, p. 521.THE PROCEEDINGS OF A
- 168 WAs.h.i.+NGTON LETTER TO _New York Herald_.Gorgeously illuminated chromo-lithographs of Kansas scenes have been distributed among the blacks. The gentleman who has seen some of these chromos writes that the most ravis.h.i.+ng presentment of rural life in
- 169 REPORT OF THE MINORITY _The undersigned, a minority of the committee appointed under resolution of the Senate of December 15, 1879, to investigate the causes which have led to the emigration of Negroes from the Southern to the Northern States, submit the
- 170 The climate is mild and pleasant.Winters short and require little food for stock.Fine grazing country; stock can be grazed all winter.The population is enterprising, towns and villages spring up rapidly and great profits arise from all investments.Climate
- 171 LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI The States of Louisiana and Mississippi have furnished the larger portion of the migration to Kansas, and as the conditions which caused the exodus are the same in both of these States, we may speak of them together. No single ac
- 172 We protest against the dire necessities that have impelled this exodus, and against the violation of common right, natural and const.i.tutional, proven to be of most frequent occurrences in places named; and we ask such action at the hands of our represen
- 173 There he must wait until the white children had recited. If the cold became _too_ intense to endure, he must ask permission of the teacher, stand by the fire a few minutes to warm and then return to the same cold corner. I have sat in an old log school ho
- 174 The part of the book most interesting to students of Negro history, however, is the chapter on African colonization, a subject which engaged the attention of Latrobe for many years and for which he became an influential promoter in serving as correspondin
- 175 Finally we have societies growing up, as in the United States, by immigration. These immigrants, coming as they do from all parts of the world, bring with them fragments of divergent cultures. Here again the process of a.s.similation is slow, often painfu
- 176 It is interesting to note in this connection that nowhere in these songs do we discover the slightest references to Africa. They reflect no memories of a far off happier land. Before the Negro gained his emanc.i.p.ation Africa had, so far as he was concer
- 177 Beginning with 1561 Queen Elizabeth lent her influence and a.s.sistance to a series of voyages to the African coast. Not only did she permit the use of four royal vessels for the first expedition but she spent five hundred pounds in provisioning them for
- 178 Up to this time there had been no uniformity about the amounts invested, and no definite times at which the several amounts subscribed, were due. It was a.s.sumed that money would be forthcoming from the members whenever it was needed to dispatch s.h.i.+p
- 179 [21] The earl of Clarendon declares in his History of Charles II that, upon the return of the s.h.i.+ps from the first expedition, the company "compounded" with Sir Nicholas Crispe for his "propriety" in the fort at Kormentine. This is untrue, since i
- 180 [67] A. C. R., 75: 94.[68] C. O. 268: I, charter of the Royal African Company, September 27, 1672.[69] In the previous April a bill had been introduced into the House of Lords to incorporate the company by act of Parliament. On account of the various plan
- 181 At this time the English had factories and settlements at Kormentine, Komenda, Tacorary, Anto, Anashan, Ardra, and Wiamba. The forts and lodges of the two companies were all located within a few miles of one another and for either company to increase the
- 182 (Aitzema, Lieuwe van, _Historie of Verhael van Saken van Staet en Oorlogh_.) [9] See the oath taken by Holmes' men dated March 7, 1660/1, enclosed in the letter of Na.s.sau and others to the estates of H. and W. F.(Holland and West Friesland), January 17
- 183 [54a] Clar. St. Paps., 106, f. 192, Downing to Clarendon, September 18, 1663. O. S.; S. P., Holland, 167, ff. 271, 272, Downing to Bennet.[55] Add. MSS., 22,920, f. 22, Royal Company to Downing, September 25, 1663.[56] Clar. St. Paps., 106, f. 223, Downin
- 184 [102] P. C. R., Charles II, 4: 122; S.P., Dom., Charles II, 99, f.170, pet.i.tion of the Royal Company for a convoy for its s.h.i.+ps. It was also reported that the duke of York was fitting out a frigate at his own expense to send to Guinea. C. S. P., Dom
- 185 223-265. A short contemporary English account may be found in C.O. 1: 19, ff. 88, 89.[152] S. P., Holland, 182, ff. 246, 247. The Dutch had entertained some hopes of inducing the English to surrender Cape Corse, as is evident from negotiations which they
- 186 The history of the slave trade to Jamaica from 1660 to 1672 does not present the varied number of problems which arose during the same time in Barbadoes. Jamaica was as yet more spa.r.s.ely settled than Barbadoes and therefore unable to take as large a nu
- 187 [20] C. O. 1: 22, f. 191, Willoughby to Privy Council, May 30, 1668.[21] _Ibid._, 20, f. 149, Willoughby to the king, May 32, 1666.[22] _Ibid._, 21, f. 170, Willoughby to the king, July, 1667.[23] C. O. 1: 21, f. 222, Willoughby to Williamson, September 1
- 188 1: 18, f. 86, Modyford and Colleton to (the Royal Adventurers), March 31, 1664.[70] C. O. 1: 19, f. 124, Willoughby to the king, May 20, 1665.[71] C. O. 1: 16, f. 112, additional instructions to Lord Windsor, governor of Jamaica, April 8, 1662.[72] C. S.
- 189 NOTES To increase our circulation and the members.h.i.+p of the a.s.sociation the management has employed as Field Agent Mr. J. E. Ormes, formerly connected with the business department of Wilberforce University. Mr.Ormes will appoint agents to sell books
- 190 [4] Secretary Seddon, War Department, wrote: "They [the Negroes] have, besides, the homes they value, the families they love, and the masters they respect and depend on to defend and protect against the savagery and devastation of the enemy."--_Official
- 191 THE LEGAL STATUS OF FREE NEGROES AND SLAVES IN TENNESSEE In 1790, the free colored population of Tennessee was 361, while the slave numbered 3,417.[1] In 1787, three years previous, Davidson County, which then, as now, comprised the most important and thi
- 192 [7] See paper of E. E. Hoss, Tenn. Hist. Soc., Nashville.[8] Greely, Horace, _The American Conflict_, p. 79, New York, 1864.[9] _Journal of The Const.i.tutional Convention_, State of Tennessee, 1834.[10] _Journal of Const.i.tutional Convention_, 1834.[11]
- 193 V, p. 191.[56] _Ibid._, pp. 191-192.[57] Personal Testimony, B. S.; J. P. Q. E.; E. S. M. Nashville, 1912.[58] {Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote text in original.} NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY IN OUR SCHOOLS The study of the ethnology and the history of th
- 194 His master died. By his will he left Angelo to the Prince Wenceslas de Lichtenstein, who for a long time, had desired to have him. This man asked Angelo if he were satisfied with this arrangement and if he were willing to come to his home. To this Angelo
- 195 VICKSBURG, MISS., May the 5th, 1917._Sir_: Just wants you to give me a few words of enfermation of labor situations in your city or south Dakota grain farms what is their offers and their adress. Will thank you for any enfermation given of same.FULLERTON,
- 196 Seeking a Northern Home. If this is true Kindly inform me by next mail the next best thing to do Being a poor man with a family to care for, I am not coming to live on flowry Beds of ease for I am a man who works and wish to make the best I can out of lif
- 197 PENSACOLA, FLA., 4-29/17._Dear Sir_: I was looking over The Chicago Defender & I saw where you wanting mins to work & the meantime was advanceing transportation if it is so i would thank you kindly if you will aid me with a Transportation that i may come
- 198 _Dear Sir_: I saw your add in the Chicago Defender papa and me being a firman and a all around man I thought I would write you.prehaps You might could do me lots of good, and if you can use me any way write me and let me No. in my trade or in foundry work
- 199 I am 42 years old, married, wife and four children and a public school teacher and printer by profession and trade. Will accept any kind of work with living wages, on tobacco farm or factory. I am a sober, steady worker and shall endeavor to render satisf
- 200 _dear sir:_ I am writing to you for information concerning a Job I have a wife and 2 children and who so ever my employer may Be I would ask that they may send trancipertation for me and my family and I will pay as i work I am a come laber man my wife is