The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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The Journal of Negro History was founded on January 1, 1916 as a quarterly research journal. It was published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History founded in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland. In 2002, The Journal of Negro History became The Journal of African American History. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) was born in New Canton, Virginia. He was an African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. He is considered the first to conduct a scholarly effort to popularize the value of Black History. Woodson re...
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- The Journal of Negro History
- Volume II
- 1917
- The Journal of Negro History
- Vol. II—January, 1917—No. 1
- Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
- I. The Origin and Extent of Slavery in the Several Economic Zones of Africa
- II. The Slave Trade of West Africa and the Desert of Sahara
- III. Region of Northwest Africa and the Desert of Sahara. Hardship of the Desert Route
- Footnotes:
- The Negro in the Field of Invention
- Footnotes:
- Anthony Benezet
- Footnotes:
- People of Color in Louisiana
- Part II
- Footnotes:
- Notes on Connecticut as a Slave State
- Documents
- LETTERS OF ANTHONY BENEZET
- Reviews Of Books
- Footnotes:
- Notes
- The Journal of Negro History
- Vol. II—April, 1917—No. 2 I The Evolution of the Slave Status in American Democracy
- Footnotes:
- John Woolman's Efforts in Behalf of Freedom
- Footnotes:
- The Tarik É Soudan
- Footnotes:
- From a Jamaica Portfolio—Francis Williams[210]
- Footnotes:
- Notes on the Nomolis of Sherbroland
- Documents
- Observations on the Negroes of Louisiana
- Considerations sur l'esclavage; Nègres libres; Mulâtres de la Louisiane, 1801
- Observations of Berquin Duvallon on the Freed People Of Colour in Louisiana in 1802
- Observations on the Negro Slave
- Timothy Flint's Recollections of Conditions in Louisiana in 1826
- The Observations of Bernard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, in New Orleans
- From Charles Gayarré's Unpublished Manuscript on the People of Color in Louisiana
- Caswall's Account of Bishop Polk's Efforts in Louisiana in 1854
- Olmsted's Observations in Louisiana in 1860
- Footnotes:
- The Conditions against which Woolman and Anthony Benezet Inveighed
- Impressions of Jasper Danckaerts in 1679-1680
- Observations of Campbell in 1745-1746
- Impressions of Priscilla Wakefield
- Book Reviews
- Notes
- Father Uncles of Baltimore
- More about Negro Soldiers
- "Only Freemen Wanted in Army
- "Many Colored Men Enrolled
- "Permitted Their Enlistment
- "Rewards Held Up
- "Jackson Praised Troops
- "Attorney General's Opinion
- "All Requirements Fulfilled
- The Journal of Negro History
- Vol. II—July, 1917—No. 3 The Formation of the American Colonization Society
- Footnotes:
- The Evolution of Slave Status in American Democracy
- II
- Footnotes:
- History of the High School for Negroes in Washington
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- Our New Possessions—The Danish West Indies
- Footnotes:
- Documents
- Relating to the Danish West Indies
- A short Description of the Islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, in the Possession of the Danes, in 1769
- II Danish Colonization in the West Indies in 1798
- III Santa Cruz in General in 1838
- IV A Letter from an American Visiting Santa Cruz in 1840
- V Stadthauptmand Chamberlain Von Scholten's Narrative of the Insurrection of 1848
- VI Chamberlain Irminger's Account of the Insurrection of 1848
- VII St. Thomas as Seen by an Observer in 1858
- VIII The Labor Act
- Footnotes:
- Reviews of Books
- Notes
- The African Origin of the Grecian Civilization[401]
- Footnotes:
- The Journal of Negro History
- Vol. II—October, 1917—No. 4 Some Historical Errors of James Ford Rhodes
- Footnotes:
- The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics
- Footnotes:
- Three Negro Poets: Horton, Mrs. Harper, and Whitman[477]
- Footnotes:
- Catholics and the Negro
- Footnotes:
- Documents
- Letters of George Washington Bearing on the Negro
- Petition for Compensation for the Loss of Slaves by Emancipation in the Danish West Indies[530]
- An Extract from the Will of Robert Pleasants Dated February 6, 1800, and Admitted to Probate in Henrico County, Virginia, April 6, 1801
- Proceedings of a Reconstruction Meeting[531]
- Footnotes:
- Reviews of Books
- Notes
- The First Biennial Meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History at Washington
- THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY
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