. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. THE NEGROIN AMERICAN HISTORY MEN AND WOMEN EMINENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN OF AFRICAN DESCENT BY JOHN W. CROMWELL Secretary of the American Negro Academy,Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON THE AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY 1914 ? i r5;M Kf:w tORK!*miC LlBiUllY 5888bB , LKSOX .?VSDTlUiaN FOCNUATloNSK 1940 L Copyright, 1914, byJOHN W. CROMWELL J. F. TAPLEY YORK DEDICATION Oh! Sing it in the light of freedoms mom,Tho tyrant wars have made the earth a grave;The good, the


. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. THE NEGROIN AMERICAN HISTORY MEN AND WOMEN EMINENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN OF AFRICAN DESCENT BY JOHN W. CROMWELL Secretary of the American Negro Academy,Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON THE AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY 1914 ? i r5;M Kf:w tORK!*miC LlBiUllY 5888bB , LKSOX .?VSDTlUiaN FOCNUATloNSK 1940 L Copyright, 1914, byJOHN W. CROMWELL J. F. TAPLEY YORK DEDICATION Oh! Sing it in the light of freedoms mom,Tho tyrant wars have made the earth a grave;The good, the great, and true, are, if so, bom,And so with slaves, chains do not make the slave!If high-souled birth be what the mother gave,—If manly birth, and manly to the core,—Whateer the test, the man will he behave!Crush him to earth, and crush him oer and oer,A MAN hell rise at last and meet you as before. -A. A. Whitman. O >< GC TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I Discovery, Colonization, Slavery 1 II The Slave Code 6 III National Independence and Emancipation ... 10 IV Slave Insurrections 12 V Some Early Strivings 17negroinamericanh00crom


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