The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-08
COLoRED PATRIOTS
OF THE
A M ERICAN REVOLUTION.
WITH SKETCHES OF SEVERAL DISTINGUISHED cor opvn
PERSONS; TO WHICH IS ADDED A BRIEF SUR
yEY OF THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS
OF coLoRED AMERICANS.
BY WILLIAM G. NELL


OF coLoRED AMERICANS.
BY WILLIAM C. NELL.
1896 pages Price 81. Postage 10 cents.
This work has been compiled as a 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 Beeeher Stowe and illustrated by engravinps
OF Crispus Attucks, the first martyr in the Boston
massacre of March 9Th, 1770; Peter Salem, on
bunker Hill, and facsimile autograph certifi-
cate OF General Washington, rendered to a colored
soioier. The Increasing interest on the general
SUBJECT OF Slavery invests this book with rare at
tractlon at the present time, for throughout it's
pages are exhibited various phases of the "pecu-
mar insutution' interviewer with incidents of pat
riotisn ana bravery OF colored Americans in the
days that tried mems souls" FROM several com
mend tory 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
MIR. 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 astonish those who have not heretofore given
the subject thought He very properly COM
mences with the story of Crispus Attacks, the mu-
latto who fell at the time of the Boston Massa-
cre,' and records very many deeds of proves, not
forgetting, of course those of the colored 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,
"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, as they illustrate the important SER
vices rendered by colored men in the struggle
this nation with the mother country, it has too
ten been the policy of white historians to ig-
more or conceal. Mr.. Nell's industry in compiling
this volume is equalled only by his modest est
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 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 and virtual outlawry, in land
for whose deliverance from oppression their faith
ers freely shed their blood.-AntiStauery Standard
The title 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 commeulorated, together with
the testimonials which those who lived in the
times when the services of black men were neither
rejected nor unreeognized, 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 reader.-Rochester Democrat