[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
THE JOURNAL
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]