The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African DescentJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1914 - 284 pages |
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... hand , the A. M. E. Church has grown rapidly from the begin- ning . In 1912 it had a membership of 620,234.2 The A. M. E. Zion Church , established largely for the same reasons in 1820 , had the same year a membership of 547,216 ...
... hand , the A. M. E. Church has grown rapidly from the begin- ning . In 1912 it had a membership of 620,234.2 The A. M. E. Zion Church , established largely for the same reasons in 1820 , had the same year a membership of 547,216 ...
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... hand did not keep faith with the Compromise of 1820 , which by her solid delegation in Congress , aided by a strong contingent from the North she defied by the enactment in 1854 , of the Kan- sas - Nebraska Act . Here was an ...
... hand did not keep faith with the Compromise of 1820 , which by her solid delegation in Congress , aided by a strong contingent from the North she defied by the enactment in 1854 , of the Kan- sas - Nebraska Act . Here was an ...
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... Hand Funds , and in later years the General and the Southern Educational Board and the Jeanes Educational Fund . The common schools of the South came into being with the reconstruction of the new State governments , and may be said to ...
... Hand Funds , and in later years the General and the Southern Educational Board and the Jeanes Educational Fund . The common schools of the South came into being with the reconstruction of the new State governments , and may be said to ...
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... hands of local officers . These officers having full discretion have uniformly admitted all white men but disfranchised nearly all colored men , re- gardless of whether they do or do not conform to 48 THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
... hands of local officers . These officers having full discretion have uniformly admitted all white men but disfranchised nearly all colored men , re- gardless of whether they do or do not conform to 48 THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
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... hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever fail to defend the rights of the men who have given their blood for me and my country that day and for their race forever . ' And , God helping me , I will ...
... hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever fail to defend the rights of the men who have given their blood for me and my country that day and for their race forever . ' And , God helping me , I will ...
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A. M. E. Church Absalom Jones African Alexander Crummell American Negro Andrew Johnson anti-slavery appointed Banneker became Benjamin Blyden Booker Boston Bruce career Chapin's Farm citizens Civil colonies colored youth Congress Constitution Convention Covey Crummell Cuffè death delegates dollars early elected Elliott eloquence Emancipation emigration England Episcopal Church followed Frederick Douglass Freedmen's friends Garrison George Hampton held Henry Henry Highland Garnet honor House hundred James John JOHN MERCER LANGSTON labor land Langston Liberia Lincoln literary Maryland ment movement National never North Oberlin officers Ohio orator organization Philadelphia Phillis Phillis Wheatley President pupils race received reconstruction regiments Republican Rochester Samuel Ringgold Ward Senate slave slavery Society Sojourner Sojourner Truth South Carolina teacher Thomas tion Troop Tuskegee United Virginia visited Washington West Wheatley William William Lloyd Garrison William Whipper York
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Page 78 - Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die.
Page 185 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 94 - I can add with truth, that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition both of their body and mind to what it ought to be, as fast as the imbecility of their present existence, and other circumstances which cannot be neglected, will admit.
Page 94 - I have taken the liberty of sending your Almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic society, because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them.
Page 83 - I may be of such encomium and panegyric, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents; in honor of which and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the poem had I not been apprehensive that, while I only meant to give the world this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of vanity.
Page 112 - Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Page 93 - This calculation is the production of my arduous study, in this my advanced stage of life; for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein, through my own assiduous application to Astronomical Study, in which I need not recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages which I have had to encounter.
Page 91 - feel gratified in the opportunity of presenting to the public, through their press, what must be considered as an extraordinary effort of genius — a complete and accurate Ephemeris for the year 1792, calculated by a sable descendant of Africa.
Page 94 - Nobody wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men; and that the appearance of the want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Page 56 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.