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Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth
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Charles Alexander |
"In this book is written the marvelous and inspiring life-story of a
man of the Negro race who rose up from the most abject condition of birth and
environment to dignity and honor, power and authority, before the snows of the
winter age had whitened his head."
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Frederick Douglass
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt |
"Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part on
the world's stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of the size of this,
to do more than touch upon the salient features of his career, to suggest the
respects in which he influenced the course of events in his lifetime, and to
epitomize for the readers of another generation the judgment of his
contemporaries as to his genius and his character."
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The Story of Archer Alexander
by
William Greenleaf Eliot |
"The following narrative was prepared without intention of publication;
but I have been led to think that it may be of use, not only as a reminiscence
of the "war of secession," but as a fair presentation of slavery in the Border
States for the twenty or thirty years preceding the outbreak of hostilities. I
am confirmed in this view by the fact, that, on submitting the manuscript to a
leading publishing-house in a Northern city, it was objected to, among other
reasons, as too tame to satisfy the public taste and judgment. But, from
equally intelligent parties in a city farther south, the exactly opposite
criticism was made, as if a too harsh judgment of slavery and slave-holders
was conveyed, so that its publication would be prejudicial to those
undertaking it."
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Frederick Douglass the Colored Orator
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Frederic May Holland |
"The invitation to write this life was readily accepted, partly because
I hoped it would in some degree reduce the color-prejudice, with other
prejudices also, and partly because I have always felt an admiration for Mr.
Douglass, which has increased as I have come to know him thoroughly. His
consent was cordially given in a letter, where he says: 'If you can say
anything of me that the public does not already know, by all means tell it. I
am sure you cannot say anything of me which will not be pretty strongly
colored, but go ahead.'"
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
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William Cooper Nell |
"The colored race have been generally considered by their enemies, and
sometimes even by their friends, as deficient in energy and courage. Their
virtues have been supposed to be principally negative ones. This little
collection of interesting incidents, made by a colored man, will redeem the
character of the race from this misconception, and show how much injustice
there may often be in a generally admitted idea."
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