The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 / A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
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The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
C.G. Woodson.
1919
About two years ago the author decided to set forth in a small volume the leading facts of the development of Negro education, thinking that he would have to deal largely with the movement since the Civil War. In looking over documents for material to furnish a background for recent achievements in this field, he discovered that he would write a much more interesting book should he confine himself to the ante-bellum period. In fact, the accounts of the successful strivings of Negroes for enlightenment under most adverse circumstances read like beautiful romances of a people in an heroic age.
Interesting as is this phase of the history of the American Negro, it has as a field of profitable research attracted only M.B. Goodwin, who published in the Special Report of the United States Commissioner of Education of 1871 an exhaustive History of the Schools for the Colored Population in the District of Columbia . In that same document was included a survey of the Legal Status of the Colored Population in Respect to Schools and Education in the Different States . But although the author of the latter collected a mass of valuable material, his report is neither comprehensive nor thorough. Other publications touching this subject have dealt either with certain localities or special phases.
Yet evident as may be the failure of scholars to treat this neglected aspect of our history, the author of this dissertation is far from presuming that he has exhausted the subject. With the hope of vitally interesting some young master mind in this large task, the undersigned has endeavored to narrate in brief how benevolent teachers of both races strove to give the ante-bellum Negroes the education through which many of them gained freedom in its highest and best sense.
Carter Godwin Woodson
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
APPENDIX
EDIT DU ROI
A PROPOSITION FOR ENCOURAGING THE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION OF INDIAN, NEGRO, AND MULATTO CHILDREN AT LAMBETH, VIRGINIA, 1724
PASTORAL LETTER OF BISHOP GIBSON OF LONDON
ANOTHER PASTORAL LETTER OF BISHOP GIBSON OF LONDON
AN EXTRACT FROM A SERMON PREACHED BY BISHOP SECKER OF LONDON IN 1741
EXTRACTS FROM THE SERMONS OF REV. THOMAS BACON ADDRESSED TO MASTERS AND SERVANTS ABOUT 1750
EXTRACT FROM THE APPENDIX OF BENJAMIN FAWCETT'S "ADDRESS TO THE CHRISTIAN NEGROES IN VIRGINIA"
EXTRACT FROM JONATHAN BOUCHER'S "A VIEW OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"(1763)
BOUCHER ON AMERICAN EDUCATION IN 1773
A PORTION OF AN ESSAY OF BISHOP PORTEUS TOWARD A PLAN FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL CIVILIZATION AND CONVERSION OF THE NEGRO SLAVES ON THE TRENT ESTATE IN BARBADOES BELONGING TO THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. (WRITTEN IN 1784)
EXTRACT FROM "THE ACTS OF DR. BRAY'S VISITATION HELD AT ANNAPOLIS IN MARYLAND, MAY 23, 24, 25, ANNO 1700"
EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS….
FROM THE MINUTES OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF PHILADELPHIA AND NEW JERSEY, 1779
FROM THE MINUTES OF THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF CHESTER
FROM THE MINUTES OF THE HADDONFIELD QUARTERLY MEETING
FROM THE MINUTES OF THE YEARLY MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF VIRGINIA IN 1757 AND 1773
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE METHODIST CONFERENCE, 1785
A PORTION OF AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN 1800.
AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN 1801
PLAN FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE FREE BLACKS
EXTRACT FROM THE "ADDRESS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION OF DELEGATES FROM THE ABOLITION SOCIETIES, 1795"
A PORTION OF THE "ADDRESS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION OF DELEGATES TO THE FREE AFRICANS AND OTHER FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR, 1796"
A PORTION OF THE ADDRESS TO THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR BY THE AMERICAN CONVENTION FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, 1819
THE WILL OF KOSCIUSZKO
FROM WASHINGTON'S WILL
THIS INTERESTING DIALOGUE WAS WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN ABOUT 1800
A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A PIOUS NEGRO
LETTER TO ABBÉ GRÉGOIRE, OF PARIS, 1809
PORTION OF JEFFERSON'S LETTER TO M.A. JULIEN, JULY 23, 1818
FROM MADISON'S LETTER TO MISS FRANCES WRIGHT, SEPTEMBER 1, 1825
FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S PAPER, 1853: "LEARN TRADES OR STARVE"
EDUCATION OF COLORED PEOPLE
FROM A MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA, CIRCULATED AMONG THE CITIZENS OF THAT STATE IN 1855, TO SECURE THE MODIFICATION OF CERTAIN LAWS REGULATING SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR.
A LAWYER FOR LIBERIA
STATE OF MARYLAND,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS ON EDUCATION
BOOKS OF TRAVEL BY FOREIGNERS
LETTERS
BIOGRAPHIES
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
GENERAL HISTORIES
STATE HISTORIES
CHURCH HISTORIES
SERMONS, ORATIONS, ADDRESSES
REPORTS ON THE EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE
STATISTICS
CHURCH REPORTS
REPORTS OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION, 1794-1831
REPORTS OF ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETIES
REPORTS OF COLONIZATION SOCIETIES
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
MAGAZINES
NEWSPAPERS
LAWS, DIGESTS, CHARTERS, CONSTITUTIONS, AND REPORTS
STATE
INDEX