The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-09-17
COLORED PATRIOTS

AMERICAN REVOLUTION;
WITH SKETCHES OF SEVERAL DISTINGUISHED CoLoRED
PERSONS; TO WHICH IS ADDED A BRIEF SUR
vEY OF THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS
OF CoLORED AMERICANS.
BY WILLIAM c. NELL.
896 pages. Price ST. 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 Beecher Stowe, and illustrated by engravings
of Crispus Attucks the first martyr in the Boston
massacre of March 5th, 1770; Peter Salem, on
Bunker Hill, and fac-simile autograph eertif-
cate of General Washington, rendered to a colored
soldier. The increasing interest on the general
subject of Slavery invests this book with rare at
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
mandatory notices of the press, the following are
selections:
This neat volume of nearly 400 pages is very
curious and interesting book, not only as regards
the character of its contents but 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 eolored
race, and to show that they 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 coored people, which
will astonish those who have not heretofore given
the subject thought. He very properly COM
mences with the story Of Crispus Attucks, 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 eolored American
and in the Appendix. ''--Salem Register,
''This work is an enlargement, and an improve
ment as well, of valuable pamphlet published by
Mr.. Nell several years ago. and which had gone
entirely out of print 1t is a record of striking
facts, which, az they illustrate the important
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 ig-
more or conceal. Mr.. Nell industry in compiling
this volume is equaled 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 q place in every Antl-Slayery
household. 1t is wei 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 and virtual outlawry, IN land
for whose deiverance from oppression their latn'
ers freely shed their blood-AntiS lasery Standard
The title the native colored people OF thu
country to be considered as men and brethren
of the whites, has been often contested by ungen
| geus men, who are willing to consider the negr'