Chapter I: Front Matter

[Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Most notably, in Issue No. 2, April, 1923, spelling errors found in Paul Cuffe's own writings (e.g., travel journals, letters, will, etc.) are left as published. Text that has been changed is noted at the end of this ebook.]

THE JOURNAL

OF

NEGRO HISTORY

CARTER G. WOODSON
EDITOR

VOLUME VIII

1923

THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE
AND HISTORY, INC.

LANCASTER, PA., AND WASHINGTON, D. C.
1923

LANCASTER PRESS, INC.
LANCASTER, PA.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII

NO. 1. JANUARY, 1923

L. P. JACKSON: _The Educational Efforts of the Freedmen's
Bureau and Freedmen's Aid Societies in South Carolina,
1862-1872_ 1
G. R. WILSON: _The Religion of the American Negro Slave: His
Attitude toward Life and Death_ 41
G. SMITH WORMLEY: _Prudence Crandall_ 72
DOCUMENTS: 81
_Extracts from Newspapers and Magazines._
_Anna Murray-Douglass--My Mother as I Recall Her._
_Frederick Douglass in Ireland._
BOOK REVIEWS: 108
BRAGG'S _The History of the Afro-American Group of the
Episcopal Church_; HAYNES'S _The Trend of the Races_;
HAMMOND'S _In the Vanguard of a Race_; The Chicago
Commission on Race Relations, _The Negro in Chicago_.
NOTES: 115
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR
THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY 116

NO. 2. APRIL, 1923

J. W. BELL: _The Teaching of Negro History_ 123
PAUL W. L. JONES: _Negro Biography_ 128
GEORGE W. BROWN: _Haiti and the United States_ 134
H. N. SHERWOOD: _Paul Cuffe_ 153
DOCUMENTS: 230
_The Will of Paul Cuffe._
BOOK REVIEWS: 233
WIENER'S _Africa and the Discovery of America_;
DETWEILER'S _The Negro Press in the United States_;
MCGREGOR'S _The Disruption of Virginia_; JOHNSTON'S
_A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages_.
NOTES: 243

NO. 3. JULY, 1923

T. R. DAVIS: _Negro Servitude in the United States_ 247
GORDON B. HANCOCK: _Three Elements of African Culture_ 284
J. C. HARTZELL: _Methodism and the Negro in the United States_ 301
WILLIAM RENWICK RIDDELL: _Notes on the Slave in Nouvelle
France_ 316
DOCUMENTS: 331
_Banishment of the Free People of Color from Cincinnati._
_First Protest against Slavery in the United States._
_A Negro Pioneer in the West._
_Concerning the Origin of Wilberforce._
COMMUNICATIONS: 338
_A Letter from Mr. J. W. Cromwell bearing on the Negro in
West Virginia._
_A Letter from Dr. James S. Russell giving Information about
Peter George Morgan of Petersburg, Virginia._
_A Letter from Captain A. B. Spingarn about early Education
of the Negroes in New York._
BOOK REVIEWS: 346
JONES'S _Piney Woods and its Story_; JOHNSON'S _American
Negro Poetry_; RHODES'S _The McKinley and Roosevelt
Administrations_; GUMMERE'S _Journal of John Woolman_.
NOTES: 351
THE SPRING CONFERENCE 353

NO. 4. OCTOBER, 1923

ALBERT PARRY: _Abram Hannibal, the Favorite of Peter the
Great_ 359
ALRUTHEUS A. TAYLOR: _The Movement of the Negroes from
the East to the Gulf States from 1830 to 1850_ 367
ELIZABETH ROSS HAYNES: _Negroes in Domestic Service in the
United States_ 384
DOCUMENTS: 443
_Documents and Comments on Benefit of Clergy as applied to
Slaves, by Wm. K. Boyd._
COMMUNICATIONS: 448
_A Letter from A. P. Vrede giving an Account of the
Achievements of the Rev. Cornelius Winst Blyd of Dutch
Guiana._
_A Letter from Captain T. G. Steward throwing Light on
various Phases of Negro History._
BOOK REVIEWS: 455
FROBENIUS'S _Das Unbekannte Africa_; OBERHOLTZER'S
_History of the United States since the Civil War_;
LUCAS'S _Partition of Africa_; JACKSON'S _Boy's Life
of Booker T. Washington_.
NOTES: 465
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR FOR THE YEAR 1922-23 466

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OF

NEGRO HISTORY

VOL. VIII., NO. 1 JANUARY, 1923.

THE EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AND FREEDMEN'S AID SOCIETIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA, 1862-1872[1]