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BIOGRAPHIES
BIRNEY, CATHERINE H. _The Grimke Sisters; Sara and Angelina Grimke, the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights_.
(Boston, 1885.) Mentions the part these workers played in the secret education of Negroes in the South.
BIRNEY, WILLIAM. _James G. Birney and His Times_. (New York, 1890.) A sketch of an advocate of Negro education.
BOWEN, CLARENCE W. _Arthur and Lewis Tappan_. A paper read at the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, October 2, 1883. An honorable mention of two promoters of the colored manual labor schools.
CHILD, LYDIA MARIA. _Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life_. (Boston and Cleveland, 1853.)
CONWAY, MONCURE DANIEL. _Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Astronomer_.
(London, 1864.)
(COOPER, JAMES F.) _Notions of the Americans Picked up by a Traveling Bachelor_. (Philadelphia, 1828.) General.
DREW, BENJAMIN. _A North-side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada_. Related by themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. (New York and Boston, 1856.)
GARRISON, FRANCIS AND WENDELL P. _William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879.
The Story of his Life told by his Children_. Four volumes. (Boston and New York, 1894.) Includes a brief account of what he did for the education of the colored people.
HALLOWELL, A.D. _James and Lucretia Mott; Life and Letters_. (Boston, 1884.) These were ardent abolitionists who advocated the education of the colored people.
JOHNSON, OLIVER. _William Lloyd Garrison and his Times_. (Boston, 1880. New edition, revised and enlarged, Boston, 1881.)
LOSSING, BENSON J. _Life of George Was.h.i.+ngton, a Biography, Military and Political_. Three volumes. (New York, 1860.) Gives the will of George Was.h.i.+ngton, who provided that at the stipulated time his slaves should be freed and that their children should be taught to read.
MATHER, COTTON. _The Life and Death of the Reverend John Elliot who was the First Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America_. The third edition carefully corrected. (London, 1694.) Sets forth the att.i.tude of John Elliot toward the teaching of slaves.
MOTT, A. _Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color; with a Selection of Pieces of Poetry_. (New York, 1826.) Some of these sketches show how ambitious Negroes learned to read and write in spite of opposition.
SIMMONS, W.J. _Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising, with an Introductory Sketch of the Author by Reverend Henry M. Turner_.
(Cleveland, Ohio, 1891.) Accounts for the adverse circ.u.mstances under which many ante-bellum Negroes acquired knowledge.
SNOWDEN, T.B. _The Autobiography of John B. Snowden_. (Huntington, W.
Va., 1900.)
WIGHTMAN, WILLIAM MAY. _Life of William Capers, one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; including an Autobiography_.
(Nashville, Tenn., 1858.) Shows what Capers did for the religious instruction of the colored people.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
ASBURY, BISHOP FRANCIS. _The Journal of the Reverend Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, from August 7, 1781, to December 7, 1815_. Three volumes. (New York, 1821.)
COFFIN, LEVI. _Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, reputed President of the Under Ground Railroad_. (Second edition, Cincinnati, 1880.) Mentions the teaching of slaves.
DOUGLa.s.s, FREDERICK. _Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla.s.s, as an American Slave_. Written by himself. (Boston, 1845.) Gives several cases of secret Negro schools.
---- _The Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s from 1817 to 1882_.
Written by himself. Ill.u.s.trated. With an Introduction by the Right Honorable John Bright, M.P. Edited by John Loeb, F.R.G.S., of the _Christian Age_, Editor of _Uncle Tom's Story of his Life_. (London, 1882.) Contains Dougla.s.s's appeal in behalf of vocational training.
FLINT, TIMOTHY. _Recollections of the last Ten Years_. A series of letters to the Reverend James Flint of Salem, Ma.s.sachusetts, by T.
Flint, Princ.i.p.al of the Seminary of Rapide, Louisiana. (Boston, 1826.) Mentions the teaching of Negroes.
GENERAL HISTORIES
BANCROFT, GEORGE. _History of the United States_. Ten volumes.
(Boston, 1857-1864.)
HART, A.B., Editor. _American History told by Contemporaries_. Four volumes. (New York, 1898.)
---- _The American Nation; A history, etc_. Twenty-seven volumes. (New York, 1904-1908.) The volumes which have a bearing on the subject treated in this monograph are Bourne's _Spain in America_, Edward Channing's _Jeffersonian System_, F.J. Turner's _Rise of the New West_, and Hart's _Slavery and Abolition_.
HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, ANTONIO DE. _Historia General de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas i tierra firme del mar oceano. Escrito por Antonio herrera coronista mayor de Sr. M. de las Indias y si coronista de Castilla. En Quatro decadas desde el ano de 1492 hasta el de 1554. Decada primera del rey Nuro Senor_. (En Madrid en la Imprenta real de Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, ano 1726-1727.)
MCMASTER, JOHN B. _History of the United States_. Six volumes. (New York, 1900.)
RHODES, J.F. _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule in the South_. (New York and London, Macmillan & Company, 1892-1906.)
VON HOLST, HERMAN. _The Const.i.tutional and Political History of the United States of America_. (Seven volumes. Chicago, 1877.)
STATE HISTORIES
ASHE, S.A. _History of North Carolina_. (Greensboro, 1908.)
BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE. _History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530-1888_.
(San Francisco, 1890.)
BEa.r.s.e, AUSTIN. _Reminiscences of Fugitive Slave Days in Boston_.
(Boston, 1880.)
BETTLE, EDWARD. "Notices of Negro Slavery as Connected with Pennsylvania." Read before the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, 8th Mo., 7th, 1826. _Memoirs of Historical Society of Pennsylvania_.
BRACKETT, JEFFREY R. _The Negro in Maryland_. Johns Hopkins University Studies. (Baltimore, 1889.)
COLLINS, LEWIS. _Historical Sketches of Kentucky_. (Maysville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, 1847.)
JONES, CHARLES COLc.o.c.k, JR. _History of Georgia_. (Boston, 1883.)
MCCRADY, EDWARD. _The History of South Carolina under the Royal Government, 1719-1776_, by Edward McCrady, a Member of the Bar of South Carolina and President of the Historical Society of South Carolina, Author of _A History of South Carolina under the Proprietary Government_. (New York and London, 1899.)
STEINER, B.C. _History of Slavery in Connecticut_. (Johns Hopkins University Studies, 1893.)
STUVe, BERNARD, and Alexander Davidson. _A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1783_. (Springfield, 1874.)