A History of the American Negro
By BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY, A. M.
Dean and Professor of English in Atlanta Baptist College
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On this, the fiftieth anniversary of negro emancipation, it is quite fitting that a book setting forth the main facts of negro history in this country should be published. Dr. Brawley’s aim has been to deal with different phases of the life of the negro—political, economic, social, religious, cultural—with some degree of proportion; but because of the great importance of education since the Civil War special attention has been given to this feature. Beginning with a study of the earliest slavery in the colonies, he takes up in turn Beginnings of Slavery in the Colonies, Early Social and Economic Aspects of Slavery, The Revolutionary Epoch, The Institution of Slavery, Slavery a National Issue, Negro Effort for Freedom and Culture, Emancipation, Enfranchisement, Missionary Endeavor, The Tuskegee Idea, The Negro Church, Self-Help in Negro Education, Disfranchisement, The Negro as a Soldier, and Negro Achievement in Literature, Art, and Invention.
Those writings which are of permanent historical value and which are essential to a comprehension of the man in all his private and public relations only are chosen for this notable collection. Nothing has been suppressed by the editor which can contribute to this main purpose. John Quincy Adams led a very eventful life, more than fifty years of it having been passed in public service. He was at all times a prolific writer and correspondent, and has left behind him a great mass of material. A discriminating selection from this will be of the utmost value, not only because of the light which it throws upon one of the leaders of our early democracy, but also in that it will serve to vivify the social customs of an age that is past. The years covered by the first volume are 1779–1796.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
