The Negro in Our History [Facsimile Edition]

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Wildside Press LLC, 01.06.2008 - 412 Seiten
A facsimile of the 1922 edition of "The Negro in Our History," by Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D. An essential book for African American libraries and collections.

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THE FREE NEGRO
124
BLAZING THE WAY
138
COLONIZATION
153
ABOLITION
169
FURTHER PROTEST
182
SLAVERY AND THE CONSTITUTION
195
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT
208
THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR
221

THE PUNISHMENT OF A RUNAWAY SLAVE
45
THE NEGRO AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN
51
THE DEATH OF CRISPUS ATTUCKS IN THE BOSTON MASSACRE
59
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
68
REACTION
71
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
74
A DECLINING ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT
86
ECONOMIC SLAVERY
99
THE RECONSTRUCTION
239
FINDING A WAY OF ESCAPE
260
ACHIEVEMENTS IN FREEDOM
280
THE NEGRO IN THE WORLD WAR
305
THE NEGRO AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
329
APPENDIX 243
342
INDEX
373
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Seite 367 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done.
Seite 360 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Seite 367 - I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament which teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them.
Seite 66 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 216 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Seite 367 - I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
Seite 367 - Considering all the circumstances, it has been more generous than I expected. But I feel no consciousness of guilt. I have stated from the first what was my intention, and what was not. I never had any design against the life of any person, nor any disposition to commit treason, or excite slaves to rebel, or make any general insurrection. I never encouraged any man to do so, but always discouraged any idea of that kind.
Seite 353 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.

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