The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War

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Author

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paoluccci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

LC: Education: Special aspects of education

Subject

African Americans -- Education

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Text

eBook-No.

11089

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11089

Release Date

February 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS — CHAPTER
4. 4.CHAPTER I
5. 5.CHAPTER II
6. 6.CHAPTER III
7. 7.CHAPTER IV
8. 8.CHAPTER V
9. 9.CHAPTER VI
10. 10.CHAPTER VII
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII
12. 12.CHAPTER IX
13. 13.CHAPTER X
14. 14.CHAPTER XI
15. 15.CHAPTER XII
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII
17. 17.APPENDIX — EDIT DU ROI — A PROPOSITION FOR ENCOURAGING THE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION OF INDIAN, NEGRO, AND MULATTO CHILDREN AT LAMBETH, VIRGINIA, 1724 — PASTORAL LETTER OF BISHOP GIBSON OF LONDON — ANOTHER PASTORAL LETTER OF BISHOP GIBSON OF LONDON — AN EXTRACT FROM A SERMON PREACHED BY BISHOP SECKER OF LONDON IN 1741 — EXTRACTS FROM THE SERMONS OF REV. THOMAS BACON ADDRESSED TO MASTERS AND SERVANTS ABOUT 1750 — EXTRACT FROM THE APPENDIX OF BENJAMIN FAWCETT'S "ADDRESS TO THE CHRISTIAN NEGROES IN VIRGINIA" — EXTRACT FROM JONATHAN BOUCHER'S "A VIEW OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"(1763) — BOUCHER ON AMERICAN EDUCATION IN 1773 — A PORTION OF AN ESSAY OF BISHOP PORTEUS TOWARD A PLAN FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL CIVILIZATION AND CONVERSION OF THE NEGRO SLAVES ON THE TRENT ESTATE IN BARBADOES BELONGING TO THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. (WRITTEN IN 1784) — EXTRACT FROM "THE ACTS OF DR. BRAY'S VISITATION HELD AT ANNAPOLIS IN MARYLAND, MAY 23, 24, 25, ANNO 1700" — EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS…. — FROM THE MINUTES OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF PHILADELPHIA AND NEW JERSEY, 1779 — FROM THE MINUTES OF THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF CHESTER — FROM THE MINUTES OF THE HADDONFIELD QUARTERLY MEETING — FROM THE MINUTES OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF VIRGINIA IN 1757 AND 1773 — EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE METHODIST CONFERENCE, 1785 — A PORTION OF AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN 1800. — AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN 1801 — PLAN FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE FREE BLACKS — EXTRACT FROM THE "ADDRESS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION OF DELEGATES FROM THE ABOLITION SOCIETIES, 1795" — A PORTION OF THE "ADDRESS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION OF DELEGATES TO THE FREE AFRICANS AND OTHER FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR, 1796" — A PORTION OF THE ADDRESS TO THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR BY THE AMERICAN CONVENTION FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, 1819 — THE WILL OF KOSCIUSZKO — FROM WASHINGTON'S WILL — THIS INTERESTING DIALOGUE WAS WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN ABOUT 1800 — A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A PIOUS NEGRO — LETTER TO ABBÉ GRÉGOIRE, OF PARIS, 1809 — PORTION OF JEFFERSON'S LETTER TO M.A. JULIEN, JULY 23, 1818 — FROM MADISON'S LETTER TO MISS FRANCES WRIGHT, SEPTEMBER 1, 1825 — FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S PAPER, 1853: "LEARN TRADES OR STARVE" — EDUCATION OF COLORED PEOPLE — FROM A MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA, CIRCULATED AMONG THE CITIZENS OF THAT STATE IN 1855, TO SECURE THE MODIFICATION OF CERTAIN LAWS REGULATING SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR. — A LAWYER FOR LIBERIA — STATE OF MARYLAND,
18. 18.BIBLIOGRAPHY — BOOKS ON EDUCATION — BOOKS OF TRAVEL BY FOREIGNERS — LETTERS — BIOGRAPHIES — AUTOBIOGRAPHIES — GENERAL HISTORIES — STATE HISTORIES — CHURCH HISTORIES — SERMONS, ORATIONS, ADDRESSES — REPORTS ON THE EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE — STATISTICS — CHURCH REPORTS — REPORTS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION, 1794-1831 — REPORTS OF ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETIES — REPORTS OF COLONIZATION SOCIETIES — MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS — MAGAZINES — NEWSPAPERS — LAWS, DIGESTS, CHARTERS, CONSTITUTIONS, AND REPORTS — STATE
19. 19.INDEX

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