The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-06
BOOKS.

subject of Slavery invests this book with rare att
traction at the present time, for throughout its,
pages are exhibited various phases Of the pecu-
liar institution" interviewer with incidents of pat
riotism and bravery of colored Americans " in the
days that tried mems souls" From several com
selections
MS neat volume of nearly 400 pages is very
curious and interesting book, not only as regards
the character OF its contents but as being the pro-
ductlon OF young eolored man. a native Of and
educated IN, Boston 1t purports to be an effort
to stem the tide of prejudice against the eolored
race, and to show that they are fit for something
higher than the menal drudgery to which the2
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 a great mass of testimony in behalf of
the military services of the ,red people, which
will astonish those who hav, 1T heretofore given
the subject a thought. He very properly com
mences with the story of Crispus Attueks, 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 eolored veter-
ans at the battle of New Orleans. He has also
embodied much information in the chapters on the
condition and prospects of the colored American
and In the Appendix. .''--Salem Register,
Inns NoIh - an enlargement, ana an improve
ment as WELL of a valuable pamphlet published by
Mr. Nell several years ago, and which had gone
entirely cut of print 1t is record of striking
facts, which, as they illustrate the important SER
vices rendered by colored men in the STRUGGLE of
this nation with the mother country it has too Of
ten been the policy of our white historians to To-
more conceal. Mr.. Nell's 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 Anti-Slavery
household. 1t is well calculated to put our spuri-
ous 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 and virtual outlawry in land
for whose deliverance from oppression their faith
ers freely shed their blood.--4nti Slarerv Stand
ard
The title of 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 eolored 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 nor unrecognized, paid to the eolored de-
tenders of our country and homes. 1t is a timely
work, well written, and full of historic facts of
value to every reader.-Rochester Democrat