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CONTENTS—Volume I

PART I
THE NEGRO IN AFRICA

         
Chapter  Page 
I.  First Notions of Africa 
II.  The American Negro and the Native African  18 
III.  The African at Home  36 
IV.  The West Coast Background of the American Negro  57 

PART II
THE NEGRO AS A SLAVE

                     
V.  The First and Last Slave Ship  85 
VI.  The First Slaves  107 
VII.  The Indian and the Negro  125 
VIII.  The Negro's Life in Slavery  144 
IX.  Slave Insurrections and the Negro "Peril"  171 
X.  The Free Negro in Slavery Days  192 
XI.  Fugitive Slaves  215 
XII.  Negro Settlements in Ohio and the Northwest
Territory 
233 
XIII.  The Negro Preacher and the Negro Church  251 
XIV.  The Negro Abolitionists  279 
XV.  The Negro Soldier's Fight for Freedom  310 


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