A Social History of the American Negro

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Author

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939

Title

A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

Credits

Suzanne Shell, Leonard D Johnson and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Language

English

LoC Class

E151: History: America: United States

Subject

Liberia -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

12101

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12101

Release Date

April 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE American Negro — A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES — INCLUDING A HISTORY AND STUDY OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA — by BENJAMIN BRAWLEY 1921 — TO THE MEMORY OF — NORWOOD PENROSE HALLOWELL — PATRIOT 1839-1914
2. 2.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I — THE COMING OF NEGROES TO AMERICA — CHAPTER II — THE NEGRO IN THE COLONIES — CHAPTER III — THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA — CHAPTER IV — THE NEW WEST, THE SOUTH, AND THE WEST INDIES — CHAPTER V — INDIAN AND NEGRO — CHAPTER VI — EARLY APPROACH TO THE NEGRO PROBLEM — CHAPTER VII — THE NEGRO REPLY—I: REVOLT — CHAPTER VIII — THE NEGRO REPLY—II: ORGANIZATION AND AGITATION — CHAPTER IX — LIBERIA — CHAPTER X — THE NEGRO A NATIONAL ISSUE — CHAPTER XI — SOCIAL PROGRESS, 1820-1860 — CHAPTER XII — THE CIVIL WAR AND EMANCIPATION — CHAPTER XIII — THE ERA OF ENFRANCHISEMENT — CHAPTER XIV — THE NEGRO IN THE NEW SOUTH — CHAPTER XV — "THE VALE OF TEARS," 1890-1910 — CHAPTER XVI — THE NEGRO IN THE NEW AGE — CHAPTER XVII — THE NEGRO PROBLEM
3. 3.PREFACE — SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO
4. 4.CHAPTER I — THE COMING OF NEGROES TO AMERICA — 1. African Origins — 2. The Negro in Spanish Exploration — 3. Development of the Slave-Trade — 4. Planting of Slavery in the Colonies — 5. The Wake of the Slave-Ship
5. 5.CHAPTER II — THE NEGRO IN THE COLONIES — 1. Servitude and Slavery — 2. The Indian, the Mulatto, and the Free Negro — 3. First Effort for Social Betterment — 4. Early Insurrections
6. 6.CHAPTER III — THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA — 1. Sentiment in England and America — 2. The Negro in the War — 3. The Northwest Territory and the Constitution — 4. Early Steps toward Abolition — 5. Beginning of Racial Consciousness
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — THE NEW WEST, THE SOUTH, AND THE WEST INDIES — 1. The Cotton-Gin, the New Southwest, and the First Fugitive Slave Law — 2. Toussaint L'Ouverture, Louisiana, and the Formal Closing of the Slave-Trade — 3. Gabriel's Insurrection and the Rise of the Negro Problem
8. 8.CHAPTER V — INDIAN AND NEGRO — 1. Creek, Seminole, and Negro to 1817: The War of 1812 — 2. First Seminole War and the Treaties of Indian Spring and Fort Moultrie — 3. From the Treaty of Fort Moultrie to the Treaty of Payne's Landing — 4. Osceola and the Second Seminole War
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — EARLY APPROACH TO THE NEGRO PROBLEM — 1. The Ultimate Problem and the Missouri Compromise — 2. Colonization — 3. Slavery
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — THE NEGRO REPLY, I: REVOLT — 1. Denmark Vesey's Insurrection — 2. Nat Turner's Insurrection — 3. The "Amistad" and "Creole" Cases
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — THE NEGRO REPLY, II: ORGANIZATION AND AGITATION — 1. Walker's "Appeal" — 2. The Convention Movement — 3. Sojourner Truth and Woman Suffrage
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — LIBERIA — 1. The Place and the People — 2. History — 3. International Relations — 4. Economic and Social Conditions
13. 13.CHAPTER X — THE NEGRO A NATIONAL ISSUE — 1. Current Tendencies — 2. The Challenge of the Abolitionists — 3. The Contest
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — SOCIAL PROGRESS, 1820-1860 177
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — THE CIVIL WAR AND EMANCIPATION
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — THE ERA OF ENFRANCHISEMENT — 1. The Problem — 2. Meeting the Problem — 3. Reaction: The KuKlux Klan — 4. Counter-Reaction: The Negro Exodus — 5. A Postscript on the War and Reconstruction
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — THE NEGRO IN THE NEW SOUTH — 1. Political Life: Disfranchisement — 2. Economic Life: Peonage — 3. Social Life: Proscription, Lynching
18. 18.CHAPTER XV — "THE VALE OF TEARS," 1890-1910 — 1. Current Opinion and Tendencies — 2. Industrial Education: Booker T. Washington — 3. Individual Achievement: The Spanish-American War — 4. Mob Violence; Election Troubles; The Atlanta Massacre — 5. The Question of Labor — 6. Defamation: Brownsville
19. 19.I
20. 20.II — 7. The Dawn of a To-morrow
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE NEGRO IN THE NEW AGE — 1. Character of the Period — 2. Migration; East St. Louis — 3. The Great War — 4. High Tension: Washington, Chicago, Elaine — 5. The Widening Problem
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — THE NEGRO PROBLEM — 1. World Aspect — 2. The Negro in American Life — 3. Face to Face
23. 23.SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY — SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY — I. General References — II. INDIVIDUAL WORKS — III. Special Lists

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