The Freedmen's Book

by Lydia Maria Child

TO
THE LOYAL AND BRAVE
CAPTAIN ROBERT SMALL,
Hero of the Steamboat Planter,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
L. MARIA CHILD.

TO THE FREEDMEN.

I have prepared this book expressly for you, with the hope that those of you who can read will read it aloud to others, and that all of you will derive fresh strength and courage from this true record of what colored men have accomplished, under great disadvantages.

I have written all the biographies over again, in order to give you as much information as possible in the fewest words. I take nothing for my services; and the book is sold to you at the cost of paper, printing, and binding. Whatever money you pay for any of the volumes will be immediately invested in other volumes to be sent to freedmen in various parts of the country, on the same terms; and whatever money remains in my hands, when the book ceases to sell, will be given to the Freedmen's Aid Association, to be expended in schools for you and your children.

Your old friend,
L. MARIA CHILD.

CONTENTS.

	Author.	Page
Ignatius Sancho	L. Maria Child	[1]
Extract from the Tenth Psalm		[12]
Prejudice Reproved	Lydia H. Sigourney	[13]
Benjamin Banneker	L. Maria Child	[14]
Ethiopia	Frances E. W. Harper*	[24]
The Hour of Freedom	William Lloyd Garrison	[25]
William Boen	L. Maria Child	[26]
Anecdote of General Washington		[31]
Prayer of the Slave	Bernard Barton	[32]
Toussaint l'Ouverture	L. Maria Child	[33]
The Aspirations of Mingo	Mingo, a Slave*	[84]
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances E. W. Harper*	[85]
Phillis Wheatley	L. Maria Child	[86]
A Pertinent Question	Frederick Douglass*	[93]
The Works of Providence	Phillis Wheatley*	[94]
The Dying Christian	Frances E. W. Harper*	[96]
Kindness to Animals	L. Maria Child	[97]
James Forten	L. Maria Child	[101]
The Meeting in the Swamp	L. Maria Child	[104]
A Reasonable Request	Peter Williams*	[110]
The Slave Poet	George Horton, a Slave*	[111]
Ratie	Mattie Griffith	[114]
The Kingdom of Christ	James Montgomery	[123]
Progress of Emancipation in the British West Indies	L. Maria Child	[124]
The Last Night of Slavery	James Montgomery	[146]
Madison Washington	L. Maria Child	[147]
Extract from the Virginia Bill of Rights		[154]
Praise of Creation	George Horton*	[155]
Frederick Douglass	L. Maria Child	[156]
How the Good Work goes on		[176]
Dedication Hymn	J. M. Whitefield*	[177]
A Prayer	John G. Whittier	[178]
William and Ellen Crafts	L. Maria Child	[179]
Spring	George Horton*	[205]
The Good Grandmother	Harriet Jacobs*	[206]
The Colored Mother's Prayer		[219]
William Costin		[220]
Education of Children	L. Maria Child	[221]
Thank God for Little Children	Frances E. W. Harper*	[226]
Sam and Andy	Harriet Beecher Stowe	[227]
John Brown	L. Maria Child	[241]
The Air of Freedom	Frances E. W. Harper*	[243]
Emancipation in the District of Columbia	James Madison Bell*	[244]
The Laws of Health	L. Maria Child	[246]
President Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation	Frances E. W. Harper*	[250]
New-Year's Day on the Islands of South Carolina	Charlotte L. Forten*	[251]
Song of the Negro Boatmen at Port Royal, S. C.	John G. Whittier	[257]
Extract from Speech to Colored People in Charleston	Hon. Henry Wilson	[259]
Extract from Speech to Colored People in Charleston	Hon. Judge Kelly	[261]
Black Tom	A Yankee Soldier	[263]
Letter from a Freedman	Jourdon Anderson*	[265]
Colonel Robert G. Shaw	Eliza B. Sedgwick	[268]
Advice from an Old Friend	L. Maria Child	[269]
Day of Jubilee	A. G. Duncan	[277]