The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-01
C0LoRED PATRIOTS
OF THE

yEY OF THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS
OF CoLoRED AMERICANS.
BY WILLIAM C. NELL.
1896 pages. Price 81. Postage 10 cents.
This work has been compiled as means of en-
tightening public sentiment on an interesting but
much neglected department of American History
and is graced with an introduction by Mrs Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, and illustrated by engravings
of Crispus Attucks the first martyr in the Boston
massacre of March 9Th, 1770 Peter Salem, on
Bunker Hill, and fac-simile autograph eertif-
cate of General Washington, rendered to q coiored
soldier. The increasing interest on the general
subject OF Slavery invests this book with rare at
traction at the present time, for throughout ita
pages are exhibited various phases of the "peeu-
bar institution interviewer with incidents Of BAT
riotlsm and bravery of colored Americans " in the
days that tried mems souls" From several COM
mandatory notices of the press, the following are
selections:
This neat volume of nearly 400 pages is a very
curious and interesting book, not only as regards
the character of its contents but as being the pro-
duction of young colored man, native of and
educated in, Boston. 1t purports to be an effort
to stem the tide OF prejudice against the colored
race, and to show that they are fit for something
higher than the mental drudgery to which they
are generally doomed.
Mr.. Nell has gathered many interesting facts, and
woven them together in very effective manner.
He has extended his researches into the local his
tories of seventeen of the States of the Union and
presents great mass of testimony In behalf of
the military services of the colored people, which
will astonlsh those who have not heretofore given
the subject thought. He very properly COM
menees with the story of Crispus Attacks, the mu.
latto who fell at the time of the Boston Massa-
ere and records very many deeds of prowess not
forgetting of course, those of the coored -veter-
ans at the battle of New Orleans. He has also
obodi ad a.
condition and prospects of the colored American,
and in the Appendix. Salem Register,
"This work is an enlargement, and an improve
ment as well, of a valuable pamphlet published by
Mr.. Nell several years ago, and which had gone
entirely out of print. 1t is record of striking
facts, which, they illustrate the important SER
vices rendered by colored men in the stru, gle
this nation with the mother country, it has too
ten been the policy of our white historians to g-
more or conceal. Mr.. Nells industry in compiling
this volume is equalled only by his modest esti-
mate of the value of his labors. He deserves the
thanks of every friend of impartial liberty, and his
book should find place in every Antl-Slavery
household 1t is well calculated to put our spuri-
Gus Christianity and our sham Democracy alike
to the blush of shame for the cruel prejudice
against the colored people, to which they so in
sanely cling, and for denying to them the rights
and privileges of manhood, and booming them to
social prescription ana virtual outlawry, IN land
for whose deliverance from oppression their faith
ers freely shed their blood.-AntiSiaueryS Standard.
The title o the native colored people of this
country to be considered as men and brethren"
of the whites, has been often contested by ungen-
erous men, who are willing to consider the negro
as "person," but reject his claims to citizen
ship. In this volume, the heroism which was dis.
played by some of the colored men whose blood
mingled with that of their white compatriots, in
the Revolution, is commemorated, together with
the testimonials which those who lived in the
times when the services of black men were neither
rejected unrecognized, paid to the colored de-
tenders of our country and homes. 1t is a timely
work, well written, and full of historic facts Of
value to every GENERALIZATION Democrat