The American Negro, his history and literature
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This book contains testimony of many, if not all the inhumane ways slaves were treated. Subjects included; workload and hours, lack of food, proper clothing and housing. Also included are the cruel ways slaves were treated treated, and the tortures they were "punished" with. Many very religious leaders; men and women, along with prominent politicians owned and passionately mistreated "their" slaves. Newspaper clippings are also included. The names of the contributors, or names of people willing to vouch for those who witnessed the incidents are included. This is a painful book to read. It should be required reading.
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American Slavery as it is
This book contains testimony of many, if not all the inhumane ways slaves were treated. Subjects included; workload and hours, lack of food, proper clothing and housing. Also included are the cruel ways slaves were treated treated, and the tortures they were "punished" with. Many very religious leaders; men and women, along with prominent politicians owned and passionately mistreated "their" slaves. Newspaper clippings are also included. The names of the contributors, or names of people willing to vouch for those who witnessed the incidents are included. This is a painful book to read. It should be required reading.
Report on the Condition of the South (American Negro His History and Literature No 3)
An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans
Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's Appeal provided the abolitionist movement with its first full-scale analysis of race and slavery. Indeed, so comprehensive was its scope, surveying the institution from historical, political, economic, legal, racial, and moral perspectives, that no other antislavery writer ever attempted to duplicate Child's achievement. The Appeal not only denounced slavery in the South but condemned racial prejudice in the free North and refuted racist ideology as a whole. Child's treatise anticipated twentieth-century inquiries into the African origins of European and American culture as well as current arguments against school and job discrimination based on race. This new edition - the first oriented toward the classroom - is enhanced by Carolyn L. Karcher's illuminating introduction. Included is a chronology of Child's life and a list of books for further reading.
Recollections of seventy years
Payne's experiences from his childhood as an orphan in South Carolina to his maturity as an influential leader in the A.M.E. Church. Emphasizes the religious aspects of his life, as well as touches on other important issues including education, racial prejudice, music, and literature. He began his career as a high school teacher for African-Americans (both enslaved and free) in South Carolina until laws forbade their education so he migrated north to New York and Philadelphia and became involved with the A.M.E. ministry. Also notable are Payne's descriptions of his trips to Europe as a representative to the Ecumenical Council.
Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, 1864
"During the last summer, the United States Freedmen's Inquiry Commission made an investigation, through one of its members, of the condition of the colored population of Canada West"--Pref.
The living is easy
"No one is safe from Cleo Jericho Judson's manipulations, and no one can stand in the way of her determination to win a place for her daughter and her sisters' children in Boston's black society. Yet forces larger than Cleo eventually wrench the control of events from her and threaten her dream of a time and place where the living is easy."--Back cover.
On lynchings
"Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to Blacks, their social oppression continued long afterward. The most virulent form of this ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than one hundred African Americans per year were lynched, and in 1892 alone the toll of murdered men and women reached a peak of 161.". "In that awful year, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), the editor of a small newspaper for Blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, raised one lone voice of protest, charging that White businessmen had instigated three local lynchings against their Black competitors. In retaliation, her editorial office was ransacked and she was forced to flee the South and move to New York City.". "So began a crusade against lynching that became the focus of Wells-Barnett's long, active, and very courageous life. In New York she published Southern Horrors, her first pamphlet on the subject. Later, after moving to Chicago and marrying lawyer Ferdinand Barnett, she brought out the pamphlets. A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans. Anticipating possible accusations of distortion, she was careful to present factually accurate evidence and she deliberately relied on Southern White sources as well as statistics gathered by the Chicago Tribune." "All three of these documents are here collected. Wells-Barnett's work remains important to this day not only as a cry of protest against injustice but also as valuable historical documentation of terrible crimes that must never be forgotten."--BOOK JACKET.
The Walls of Jericho (Black Classics)
Lawyer Ralph Merrit buys a house in a white neighborhood bordering Harlem.