The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 Part 42

MAGAZINES

_The Abolitionist, or Record of the New England Anti-Slavery Society_.

Edited by a committee. Appeared in January, 1833.

_The African Methodist Episcopal Church Review_. Valuable for the following articles:

"The Colored Public Schools of Was.h.i.+ngton," by James Storum, vol. v., p. 279.

"The Negro as an Inventor," by R.R. Wright, vol. ii., p. 397. "Negro Poets," vol. iv., p. 236.

"The Negro in Journalism," vols. vi., 309, and xx., 137.

_The African Repository_. Published by the American Colonization Society from 1826 to 1832. A very good source for the development of Negro education both in this country and Liberia. Some of its most valuable articles are: "Learn Trades or Starve," by Frederick Dougla.s.s, vol. xxix., pp. 136 and 137. Taken from Frederick Dougla.s.s's Paper.

"Education of the Colored People," by a highly respectable gentleman of the South, vol. x.x.x., pp. 194,195, and 196.

"Elevation of the Colored Race," a memorial circulated in North Carolina, vol. x.x.xi., pp. 117 and 118.

"A Lawyer for Liberia," a sketch of Garrison Draper, vol. x.x.xiv., pp.

26 and 27.

Numerous articles on the religious instruction of the Negroes occur throughout the foregoing volumes. Information about the actual literary training of the colored people is given as news items.

_The American Museum_, or _Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, etc., Prose and Poetical_. Vols. i.-iv. (First and second editions, Philadelphia, 1788. Third edition, Philadelphia, 1790.) Contains some interesting essays on the intellectual status of the Negroes, etc., contributed by "Oth.e.l.lo," a free Negro.

_The Colonizationist and Journal of Freedom_. The author has been able to find only the volume which contains the numbers for the year 1834.

_The Crisis_. A record of the darker races published by the National a.s.sociation for the Advancement of Colored People.

_The Maryland Journal of Colonization_. Published as the official organ of the Maryland Colonization Society. Among its important articles are: "The Capacities of the Negro Race," vol. iii., p. 367; and "The Educational Facilities of Liberia," vol. vii., p. 223.

_The Non-Slaveholder_. Two volumes of this publication are now found in the Library of Congress.

_The School Journal_.

_The Southern Workman_. Volume x.x.xvii. contains Dr. R.R. Wright's valuable dissertation on "Negro Rural Communities in Indiana."

NEWSPAPERS

District of Columbia.

_The Daily National Intelligencer_.

Louisiana _The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin._

Maryland.

_The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser._ _The Maryland Gazette._ _Dunlop's Maryland Gazette_ or _The Baltimore Advertiser._

Ma.s.sachusetts.

_The Liberator._

New York.

_The New York Daily Advertiser._ _The New York Tribune._

North Carolina.

_The State Gazette of North Carolina._ _The Newbern Gazette._

Pennsylvania.

_The Philadelphia Gazette._

South Carolina.

_The City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser._ _The State Gazette of South Carolina._ _The Charleston Courier._ _The South Carolina Weekly Advertiser._ _The Carolina Gazette._ _The Columbian Herald._

Virginia.

_The Richmond Enquirer._ _The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald._ _The Virginia Herald._ (Fredericksburg.) _The Norfolk and Portsmouth Chronicle._

LAWS, DIGESTS, CHARTERS, CONSt.i.tUTIONS, AND REPORTS

GENERAL

Code Noir ou Recueil d'edits, declarations et arrets concernant la Discipline et le commerce des esclaves Negres des isles francaises de l'Amerique (in Recueils de reglemens, edits, declarations et arrets, concernant le commerce, l'administration de la justice et la police des colonies francaises de l'Amerique, et les engages avec le Code Noir, et l'addition audit code). (Paris, 1745.)

GOODELL, WILLIAM. _The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Ill.u.s.trative Facts._ (New York, 1853.)

PETERS, RICHARD. _Condensed Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States._ Six volumes. (Philadelphia, 1830-1834.)

THORPE, F.N. _Federal and State Const.i.tution, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies now or heretofore Forming the United States of America. Compiled and Edited under an Act of Congress, June 30, 1906._ (Was.h.i.+ngton, 1909.)

STATE

Alabama.

_Acts of the General a.s.sembly Pa.s.sed by the State of Alabama._ CLAY, C.C. _Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama to 1843._ (Tuscaloosa, 1843.)

Connecticut.

_Public Acts Pa.s.sed by the General a.s.sembly of Connecticut._

Delaware.

_Laws of the State of Delaware Pa.s.sed by the General a.s.sembly._

District of Columbia.

BURCH, SAMUEL. _A Digest of the Laws of the Corporation of the City of Was.h.i.+ngton, with an Appendix of the Laws of the United States Relating to the District of Columbia._ (Was.h.i.+ngton, 1823.)

Florida.

_Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida._ _Acts and Resolutions of the General a.s.sembly of the State of Florida._