The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His AchievementsCosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 312 pages "The Black man: his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements was originally published in 1865"--Title page verso. |
Contents
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THE BLACK MAN HIS GENIUS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS | 51 |
NAT TURNER | 59 |
MADISON WASHINGTON | 75 |
HENRY BIBB | 86 |
TOUSSAINT LOuverture | 92 |
CRISPUS ATTUCKS | 106 |
PHILLIS WHEATLEY | 138 |
HENRY HIGHland GarnetT | 149 |
JOHN MERCER Langston | 235 |
JOHN S ROCK | 266 |
ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS | 272 |
A MAN WITHOUT A NAME | 278 |
SAMUEL R WARD | 284 |
JAMES LAWSON | 291 |
IRA ALDRIDGE | 118 |
JOSEPH CINQUE | 124 |
HENRI CHRISTOPHE | 132 |
CAPT CALLIOUX | 297 |
CAPT JOSEPH Howard | 308 |
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Page 18 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.