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Welcome to
Black
History & Genealogy

The Story of the Negro
The
Rise of the Race from Slavery

by
Booker T. Washington
VOL. I.
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1909

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CONTENTS

  PREFACE  

PART I.
THE NEGRO IN AFRICA

Chapter.   Page
I. - First Notions of Africa - Started 3/9/2020 3
   
II. - The American Negro and the Native African 18
   
III. - The African at Home 36
   
IV. - The West Coast Background of the American Negro 57
   


PART II.
THE NEGRO AS A SLAVE

V. - The First and Last Slave Ship 85
   
VI. - The First Slaves 107
   
VII. - The Indian and the Negro 125
   
VIII. - The Negro's Life in Slavery 144
   
IX. - Slave Insurrections and the Negro "Peril" 171
   
X. - The Free Negro in Slavery Days 192
   
XI. - Fugitive Slaves 215
   
XII. - Negro Settlements in Ohio and the Northwest Territory - Started 3/10/2020 233
   
XIII. - The Negro Preacher and the Negro Church 251
   
XIV. - The Negro Abolitionists 279
   
XV. - The Negro Soldier's Fight for Freedom 310
   


PART III
THE NEGRO AS A FREEMAN

 
I. - The Early Days of Freedom - FINISHED 3/10/2020 3
     
II. - The Rise of the Negro Land-owner 30
     
III. - The Negro Labourer and the Mechanic in Slavery and Freedom 57
     
IV. - Negro Crime and Racial Self-help 85
     
V. - The Negro Teacher and the Negro School 114
     
VI. - The Negro Secret Societies 148
     
VII. - The Negro Doctor and the Negro Professional Man 171
     
VIII. - The Negro Disfranchisement and the Negro in Business 190
     
IX. - The Negro Bank and the Moral Uplift 211
     
X. - Negro Communities and Negro Homes 234
     
XI. - Negro Poetry, Music and Art 259
     
XII. - Negro Women and Their Work - Started 3/10/2020 297
     
XIII. - The Social and Mission Work of the Negro Church 332
     
XIV. - Law and Order and the Negro 356
     
XV. - The Negro's Place in American Life 383
     
  INDEX 403

 

 

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