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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in 'The Builder' library means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. The Webmaster BY BENJAMIN BRAWLEY YOUR NEGRO NEIGHBOR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO 1 A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO Being A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES Including A HISTORY AND STUDY OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA BY BENJAMIN BRAWLEY iQeto gorfe THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 192 All Rights Reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ^ .\y Copyright, 1921, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and printed. Published September, 1921. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company- New York, U. S. A. TO THE MEMORY OF NORWOOD PENROSE HALLOWELL PATRIOT 1839-I914 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. / K A O ^ *'l Norwood Penrose Hallowell was born in Philadelphia April 13, 1839. He inherited the tradition of the Quakers and grew to man- hood in a strong anti-slavery atmosphere. The home of his father, Morris L. Hallowell—the "House called Beautiful," in the phrase of Oliver Wendell Holmes—was a haven of rest and refreshment for wounded soldiers of the Union Army, and hither also, after the assault upon him in the Senate, Charles Sumner had come for succor and peace. Three brothers in one way or another served the cause of the Union, one of them, Edward N. Hallowell, succeeding Robert Gould Shaw in the Command of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massa- chusetts Volunteers. Norwood Penrose Hallowell himself, a natural leader of men, was Harvard class orator in 1861 ; twenty-five years later he was the marshal of his class; and in 1896 he delivered the Me- morial Day address in Sanders Theater. Entering the Union Army with promptness in April, 1861, he served first in the New England Guards, then as First Lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts, won a Captain's commission in November, and within the next year took part in numerous engagements, being wounded at Glendale and even more severely at Antietam. On April 17, 1863, he became Lieu- tenant-Colonel of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, and on May 30 Colonel of the newly organized Fifty-Fifth. Serving in the invest- ment of Fort Wagner, he was one of the first to enter the fort after its evacuation. His wounds ultimately forced him to resign his com- mission, and in November, 1863, he retired from the service. He engaged in business in New York, but after a few years removed to Boston, where he became eminent for his public spirit. He was one of God's noblemen, and to the last he preserved his faith in the Negro whom he had been among the first to lead toward the full heritage of American citizenship. He died April 11, 1914. PREFACE In the following pages an effort is made to give fresh treat- ment to the history of the Negro people in the United States, and to present this from a distinct point of view, the social. It is now forty years since George W. Williams completed his History of the Negro Race in America, and while there have been many brilliant studies of periods or episodes since that important work appeared, no one book has again attempted to treat the subject comprehensively, and meanwhile the race has passed through some of its most critical years in America. The more outstanding political phases of the subject, especially in the period before the Civil War, have been frequently con- sidered; and in any account of the Negro people themselves the emphasis has almost always been upon political and military features. Williams emphasizes this point of view, and his study of legal aspects is not likely soon to be superseded. A noteworthy point about the history of the Negro, however, is that laws on the statute-books have not necessarily been re- garded, public opinion and sentiment almost always insisting on being considered. It is necessary accordingly to study the actual life of the Negro people in itself and in connection with that of the nation, and something like this the present work endeavors to do. It thus becomes not only a Social History of the race, but also the first formal effort toward a History of the Negro ProblerrTTn America. With this aim in mind, in view of the enormous amount of material, we have found it necessary to confine ourselves within very definite limits. A thorough study of all the questions relating to the Negro in the United States would fill volumes, for sooner or later it would touch upon all the great problems of American life. No attempt is made to perform such a task; rather is it intended to fix attention upon the race itself as definitely as possible. Even with this limitation there are ix ; x PREFACE some topics that might be treated at length, but that have al- ready been studied so thoroughly that no very great modifica- tion is now likely to be made of the results obtained. Such are many of the questions revolving around the general subject of slavery. Wars are studied not so much to take note of the achievement of Negro soldiers, vital as that is, as to record the effect of these events on the life of the great body of people. Both wars and slavery thus become not more than incidents in the history of the ultimate problem. In view of what has been said, it is natural that the method of treatment should vary with the different chapters. Some- times it is general, as when we touch upon the highways of American history. Sometimes it is intensive, as in the con- sideration of insurrections and early effort for social progress and Liberia, as a distinct and much criticized experiment in government by American Negroes, receives very special atten- tion. For the first time also an effort is now made to treat consecutively the life of the Negro people in America for the last fifty years. This work is the result of studies on which I have been en- gaged for a number of years and which have already seen some light in A Short History of the American Negro and The Negro in Literature and Art; and acquaintance with the ele- mentary facts contained in such books as these is in the present work very largely taken for granted. I feel under a special debt of gratitude to the New York State Colonization Society, which, cooperating with the American Colonization Society and the Board of Trustees of Donations for Education in Li- beria, in 1920 gave me opportunity for some study at first hand of educational and social conditions on the West Coast of Africa; and most of all do I remember the courtesy and helpfulness of Dr. E. C. Sage and Dr. J. H. Dillard in this con- nection. In general I have worked independently of Williams, but any student of the subject must be grateful to that pioneer, as well as to Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, who has made contributions in so many ways. My obligations to such scholarly dissertations as those by Turner and Russell are manifest, while to Mary Stoughton Locke's Anti^Slavery in America—a model mon- PREFACE xi ograph—I feel indebted more than to any other thesis. Within the last few years, of course, the Crisis, the Journal of Negro History, and the Negro Year-Bo ok have in their special fields become indispensable, and to Dr.
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