Chapter XXIII: Representative Colored Men

Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.--The Legal Destruction
of Slavery and a Constitutional Prohibition.--Fifteenth Amendment
granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro.--President
Grant's Special Message upon the Subject.--Universal Rejoicing
among the Colored People.--The Negro in the United States Senate
and House of Representatives.--The Negro in the Diplomatic
Service of the Country.--Frederick Douglass--His Birth,
Enslavement, Escape to the North, and Life as a Freeman.--Becomes
an Anti-slavery Orator.--Goes to Great Britain.--Returns to
America.--Establishes the "North Star."--His Eloquence,
Influence, and Brilliant Career.--Richard Theodore Greener.--His
Early Life, Education, and Successful Literary Career.--John P.
Green.--His Early Struggles to obtain an Education.--A Successful
Orator, Lawyer, and Useful Legislator.--Other Representative
Colored Men.--Representative Colored Women 419

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Its Origin, Growth, Organization, and Excellent Influence.--Its
Publishing House, Periodicals, and Papers.--Its Numerical and
Financial Strength.--Its Missionary and Educational
Spirit.--Wilberforce University 452

CHAPTER XXV.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Founding of the M. E. Church of America in 1768.--Negro Servants
and Slaves among the First Contributors to the Erection of the
First Chapel in New York.--The Rev. Harry Hosier the First Negro
Preacher in the M. E. Church in America.--His Remarkable
Eloquence as a Pulpit Orator.--Early Prohibition against
Slave-holding in the M. E. Church.--Strength of the Churches and
Sunday-schools of the Colored Members in the M. E. Church.--The
Rev. Marshall W. Taylor, D.D.--His Ancestors.--His Early Life and
Struggles for an Education.--He Teaches School in Kentucky.--His
Experiences as a Teacher.--Is ordained to the Gospel Ministry and
becomes a Preacher and Missionary Teacher.--His Settlement as
Pastor in Indiana and Ohio.--Is given the Title of Doctor of
Divinity by the Tennessee College.--His Influence as a Leader,
and his Standing as a Preacher 465

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE COLORED BAPTISTS OF AMERICA.

The Colored Baptists an Intelligent and Useful People.--Their
Leading Ministers in Missouri, Ohio, and in New England.--The
Birth, Early Life, and Education of Duke William Anderson.--As
Farmer, Teacher, Preacher, and Missionary.--His Influence in the
West.--Goes South at the Close of the War.--Teaches in a
Theological Institute at Nashville, Tennessee.--Called to
Washington.--Pastor of 19th Street Baptist Church.--He occupies
Various Positions of Trust.--Builds a New Church.--His Last
Revival.--His Sickness and Death.--His Funeral and the General
Sorrow at his Loss.--Leonard Andrew Grimes, of Boston,
Massachusetts.--His Piety, Faithfulness, and Public Influence for
Good.--The Completion of his Church.--His Last Days and Sudden
Death.--General Sorrow.--Resolutions by the Baptist Ministers of
Boston.--A Great and Good Man Gone 475

Part 9.

_THE DECLINE OF NEGRO GOVERNMENTS._