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
George Washington Williams (Author), G.P. Putnam's Sons (Publisher), Knickerbocker Press (Printer)
Print Book, English, 1885
Popular edition, two volumes in one View all formats and editions
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London, 1885
History
2 volumes in 1 (xix, 481; xiii, 611 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : portrait ; 24 cm
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Part. 1. Preliminary considerations. Chapter I. The unity of mankind
Chapter II. The Negro in the light of philology, ethnology, and Egyptology
Chapter 3. Primitive Negro civilization
Chapter IV. Negro kingdoms of Africa
Chapter V. The Ashantee Empire
Chapter VI. The Negro type
Chapter VII. African idiosyncrasies
Chapter VIII. Languages, literature, and religion
Chapter IX. Sierra Leone
Chapter X. The Republic of Liberia
Chapter XI. Résumé
Part II. Slavery in the colonies. Chapter XII. The Colony of Virginia, 1619-1775
Chapter XIII. The Colony of New York, 1628-1775
Chapter XIV. The Colony of Massachusetts, 1633-1775
Chapter XV. The Colony of Massachusetts, continued, 1633-1775
Chapter XVI. The Colony of Maryland, 1634-1775
Chapter XVII. The Colony of Delaware, 1636-1775
Chapter XVIII. The Colony of Connecticut, 1646-1775
Chapter XIX. The Colony of Rhode Island, 1647-1774
Chapter XX. The Colony of New Jersey, 1664-1775
Chapter XXI. The Colony of South Carolina, 1665-1775
Chapter XXII. The Colony of North Carolina, 1669-1775
Chapter XXIII. The Colony of New Hampshire, 1679-1775
Chapter XXIV. The Colony of Pennsylvania, 1681-1775
Chapter XXV. The Colony of Georgia, 1732-1775
Part III. The Negro during the revolution. Chapter XXVI. Military employment of Negroes, 1775-1780
Chapter XXVII. Negroes as soldiers, 1775-1783
Chapter XXVIII. Legal status of the Negro during the revolution, 1775-1783
Chapter XXIX. The Negro intellect, Banneker the astronomer, Fuller the mathmetician, Derham the physician
Chapter XXX. Slavery during the revolution, 1775-1783
Chapter XXXI. Slavery as a political and legal problem, 1775-1800. Part 4. Conservative era, Negroes in the Army and Navy. Chapter I. Restriction and extension, 1800-1825
Chapter II. Negro troops in the War of 1812
Chapter III. Negroes in the Navy
Part. 5. Anti-Slavery Agitation. Chapter IV. Retrospection and reflection, 1825-1850
Chapter V. Anti-slavery methods
Chapter VI. Anti-slavery efforts of free negroes
Chapter VII. Negro insurrections
Chapter VIII. The "Amistad" captives
Part 6. The period of preparation. Chapter IX. Northern sympathy and Southern subterfuges
Chapter X. The "Black laws" of "Border states"
Chapter XI. The northern Negroes
Chapter XII. Negro school laws, 1619-1860
Chapter XIII. John Brown, hero and martyr
Part 7. The Negro in the war for the Union. Chapter XIV. Definition of the war issue
Chapter XV. "A white man's war"
Chapter XVI. The Negro on fatigue duty
Chapter XVII. The Emancipation Proclamations
Chapter XVIII. Employment of Negroes as soldiers
Chapter XIX. Negroes as soldiers
Chapter XX. Capture and treatment of Negro solidiers
Part 8. The first decade of freedom. Chapter XXI. Reconstruction, misconstruction, 1865-1875
Chapter XXII. The results of emancipation
Chapter XXIII. Representative colored men
Chapter XXIV. The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Chapter XXV. The Methodist Episcopal Church
Chapter XXVI. The colored Baptists of America
Part 9. The decline of Negro governments
Chapter XXVII. Reaction, peril, and pacification, 1875-1880
Chapter XXVIII. The Exodus, cause and effect
Chapter XXIX. Retrospection and prospection
Volume two has half-title page only
Plate is a frontispiece portrait of the author