Research Catalog

Title

The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavment, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America / prepared at the special request of the Philanthropic Christian Public of England and America by Rev. P. Thomas Stanford, A.M., M.D., D.D., LL.D.

Author

Stanford, P. Thomas (Peter Thomas)

Publication

North Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. : [publisher not identified], [1900?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Wood, Frank (Printer)

Description

[10], xvii, [1], 253, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States
• African Americans > Social conditions
• United States > Race relations
• African Americans > History
• Slavery > United States > History
• Lynching > United States
• Black author

Note

• An additional edition statement, "Editor's edition", precedes imprint on title page.
• Place of publication on title page preceded by address: "101 and 103 Dudley Street", and followed by text: "Where all communications should be addressed."
• "Copyrighted by Rev. P. Thomas Stanford, A.M., M.D., D.D., LL.D. Boston, 1897. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.
• "Frank Wood printer Boston."--page [6], 1st count.
• Illustrated plates included in pagination, with the exception of the plates facing page 78 and page 80.
• Last page blank.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Preface -- Extracts of letters from reviewers of "The tragedy of the Negro in America," and newspaper comments -- ch. 1. Introductory -- ch. 2. Africa: and how the Negro was brought thence, and why -- ch. 3. America: and what befell the Negro therein from A.D. 1619 to A.D. 1712 -- ch. 4. How the Negro was treated down to 1844 -- ch. 5. John Brown -- ch. 6. Immediately before and after emancipation -- ch. 7. The beginning of better days, and of progress -- ch. 8. Lynchings -- ch. 9. The Negro in the North -- ch. 10. The Negro in the South -- ch. 11. The Negro in the South, and his friends -- ch. 12. Conclusion -- Appendix. 13. The Georgia convicts. A colored critic of the apology for the lease system; Boston Transcript, March 5, 1898 -- 14. A white woman of the South defends the Negro, and praises him; New York Sun, December 4, 1898 -- 15. Is the Negro a man? The Rev. William M. Brundage, of the First Unitarian Church, standing for his social as well as political equality; Albany Evening Journal, June 25, 1900. -- 16. When I gits home.

Call Number

Sc Rare 973-S (Stanford, P. T. Tragedy of the Negro in America)

OCLC

• 2905488
• NYPGR2905488-B

Author

Stanford, P. Thomas (Peter Thomas)

Title

The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavment, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America / prepared at the special request of the Philanthropic Christian Public of England and America by Rev. P. Thomas Stanford, A.M., M.D., D.D., LL.D.

Publisher

North Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. : [publisher not identified], [1900?]

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973-S (accession no. B571181) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 973-S has impression statement "Tenth Thousand" following "Second Edition" in edition statement at head of title page.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Wood, Frank (Printer), printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 973-S (Stanford, P. T. Tragedy of the Negro in America)