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A Confederate Girl's Diary: INTRODUCTION: IT is perhaps due to a
chance conversation, held some 17 years ago in New York, that this
Diary of the Civil War was saved from destruction. A Philadelphian
had been talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded
to the engagement between the Essex and the Arkansas, on the
Mississippi, as a brilliant victory for the Federal navy. My mother
protested, at once; said that she and her sister Miriam, and
several friends, had been witnesses, from the levee, to the fact
that the Confederates had fired and abandoned their own ship when
the machinery broke down, after two shots had been exchanged: the
Federals, cautiously turning the point, had then captured but a
smoking hulk. The Philadelphian gravely corrected her; history, it
appeared, had consecrated, on the strength of an official report,
the version more agreeable to Northern pride. "But I wrote a
description of the whole, just a few hours after it occurred " my
mother insisted. "Early in the war I began to keep a diary, and
continued until the very end; I had to find some vent for my
feelings, and I would not make an exhibition of myself by talking,
as so many women did. I have written while resting to recover
breath in the midst of a stampede; I have even written with shells
bursting over the house in which I sat, ready to flee but waiting
for my mother and sisters to finish their preparations." "If that
record still existed, it would be invaluable," said the
Philadelphian. "We Northerners are sincerely anxious to know what
Southern women did and thought at that time, but the difficulty is
to find authentic contemporaneous evidence. All that I, for one,
have seen, has been marred by improvement in the light of
subsequent events." "You may read my evidence as it was written
from March 1862 until April 1865," my mother declared impulsively.
As William Wells Brown's first published work and his most widely
read autobiography, the 1847 Narrative occupies an important place
within not only his oeuvre but also the broader African American
literary tradition. Brown would draw directly from the text in many
of his later works, among them Clotel, The Escape, and My Southern
Home. Preceding this account of Brown's life, however, are two
letters and a preface. The first letter William Wells Brown himself
writes in thanks to "Wells Brown, of Ohio" (iii), while the second,
written by Edmund Quincy, remarks upon the variety of Brown's
experiences and praises the manuscript's "simplicity and calmness"
(vi). Following J. C. Hathaway's Preface, largely an appeal on
behalf of the abolitionist cause, Brown opens his narrative noting
that his father was the white George Higgins, a relative of his
master, and that his enslaved mother, Elizabeth, had given birth to
seven children, each with a different father. In doing so, Brown
immediately draws attention to the plight of mixed-race individuals
as well as the tenuous nature of slave families.
Within recent years new forces have swept over great nations,
crashing against the established order and, in some cases,
obliterating it. The old forces, which survived the centuries, are
struggling desperately to maintain themselves against the tides
sweeping in from several different seas. In country after country,
the old form of democratic government has been supplanted by the
new order called Fascism. In many countries where Fascism has not
been victorious, powerful movements are under way to establish it
and equally powerful movements are struggling bitterly to prevent
it. Millions of earnest and honest citizens, tired of the
disordered state of economic and political affairs, have turned to
Fascism as the only obstacle to prevent the disintegration of what
we know as civilization and a resultant chaos. Other equally
earnest and honest citizens regard this new order as the most
intolerable form of government imaginable and are fighting this new
force with all the energy they can muster, as in France and in
Spain. There the anti-Fascist forces developed tremendous power by
uniting with their own political enemies to save themselves and
their countries from Fascism.
Californians "As We See 'Em" A Volume of Cartoons and Caricatures
The Master's Slave: Elijah John Fisher A Biography
The Little Slave Girl: A True Story by Eileen Douglas
Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave 1848]. According to his
narrative, Henry Watson was born into slavery near Fredericksburg,
Virginia, in 1813. Watson's master, whom he remembers only as
"Bibb," worked primarily at raising slaves for sale. Watson's
mother, the cook in the great house, was sold when Watson was
eight. Shortly thereafter, Watson himself was sold to Parson Janer,
with whom he remained only a brief time before being sent to
auction in Richmond, Virginia. Watson was purchased by a slave
trader named Denton, who forced him to walk, along with many other
slaves, to Natchez, Mississippi. Watson was purchased by the
tyrannical Alexander McNeill, who kept Watson as a house slave for
approximately five years. When Watson refused to inform on another
slave, he was sent to work as a field hand on McNeill's farm.
Watson was purchased by Alexander McNeill's brother, William, who,
while initially kind, becomes cruel under the influence of his
controlling and sadistic wife. Watson was then sold to an unnamed
man who put him to work in a hotel dining room. Over the next few
years, Watson developed a gambling habit, stabbed another slave,
and was hired out and sold. A Northern man eventually alerted
Watson to a means of escape on a ship bound for Boston. Upon
reaching Boston at age 26, Watson met William Lloyd Garrison, who
advised him to flee the country. Watson spent a few months in
Britain but returned to the United States, where he remained, with
his unnamed wife, at the close of his narrative.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience 1911]. IT
HAS been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem a
hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I
looked upon this fact as a great misfortune. It seemed to me a
great hardship that I was born poor, and it seemed an even greater
hardship that I should have been born a Negro. I did not like to
admit, even to myself, that I felt this way about the matter,
because it seemed to me an indication of weakness and cowardice for
any man to complain about the condition he was born to. Later I
came to the conclusion that it was not only weak and cowardly, but
that it was a mistake to think of the matter in the way in which I
had done. I came to see that, along with his disadvantages, the
Negro in America had some advantages, and I made up my mind that
opportunities that had been denied him from without could be more
than made up by greater concentration and power within. Perhaps I
can illustrate what I mean by a fact I learned while I was in
school. I recall my teacher's explaining to the class one day how
it was that steam or any other form of energy, if allowed to escape
and dissipate itself, loses its value as a motive power. Energy
must be confined; steam must be locked in a boiler in order to
generate power. The same thing seems to have been true in the case
of the Negro. Where the Negro has met with discriminations and with
difficulties because of his race, he has invariably tended to get
up more steam. When this steam has been rightly directed and
controlled, it has become a great force in the upbuilding of the
race. If, on the contrary, it merely spent itself in fruitless
agitation and hot air, no good has come of it. Paradoxical as it
may seem, the difficulties that the Negro has met since
emancipation have, in my opinion, not always, but on the whole,
helped him more than they have hindered him. BOOKER T WASHINGTON
1911].
BIOGRAPHY OF A SLAVE: BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF REV. CHARLES
THOMPSON, A PREACHER
How To Know Period Styles in Furniture by W.L. Kimerly 1913.]
The life of Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington. 1907].
PREFACE: The chance or destiny which brought to this land of ours,
and placed in the midst of the most progressive and the most
enlightened race that Christian civilization has produced, some
three or four millions of primitive black people from Africa and
their descendants, has created one of the most interesting and
difficult social problems which any modern people has had to face.
The effort to solve this problem has put to a crucial test the
fundamental principles of our political life and the most widely
accepted tenets of our Christian faith. Frederick Douglass's career
falls almost wholly within the first period of the struggle in
which this problem has involved the people of this country, the
period of revolution and liberation. That period is now closed. We
are at present in the period of construction and readjustment. Many
of the animosities engendered by the conflicts and controversies of
half a century ago still survive to confuse the councils of those
who are seeking to live in the present and the future, rather than
in the past. But changes are rapidly coming about that will remove,
or at least greatly modify, these lingering animosities.
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
At a time when Capitalism is openly reproached as an exploitation
of Labor, back into which it should be resolved and integrated at
the expense of individual ambition, initiative and comprehensive
genius; when vulgar equality and fraternity are rated above
aesthetic excellence and distinction, as if man could live by bread
alone, this brief treatise is obviously issued as a protest against
what is deemed and exalted as the "ideal " of Socialism - but which
the author regards rather as an inconsequential dream that does not
realize its own meaning-and also as a defense of the Capitalist
class from objurgations born of prejudice and ignorant
inexperience.
The Story of The Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery, Volume 1
by Booker T. Washington.
HITLER'S SPIES AND SABOTEURS: BASED ON THE GERMAN SECRET-SERVICE
WAR DIARY of GENERAL LAHOUSEN
Slavery and The Race Problem in The South. With Special Reference
to the State of Georgia (1906)
What's The Matter With Mexico? By Caspar Whitney, 1916].
Through Afro-America, An English Reading of the Race Problem By
Archer, William, 1856-1924
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100 Things You Should Know About Communism. Forty years ago,
Communism was just a plot in the minds of a very few peculiar
people. Today, Communism is a world force governing millions of the
human race and threatening to govern all of it. Who are the
Communists? How do they work? What do they want? What would they do
to you? For the past lo years your committee has studied these and
other questions and now some positive answers can be made. Some
answers will shock the citizen who has not examined Communism
closely. Most answers will infuriate the Communists. These answers
are given in five booklets, as follows: 1. One Hundred Things You
Should Know About Communism in the U. S. A. 2. One Hundred Things
You Should Know About Communism and Religion. 3. One Hundred Things
You Should Know About Communism and Education. 4. One Hundred
Things You Should Know About Communism and Labor. 5. One Hundred
Things You Should Know About Communism and Government. These
booklets are intended to help you know a Communist when you hear
him speak and when you see him work.
Booker T. Washington Educator And Interracial Interpreter by Basil
Mathews
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