The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-07-23

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396 pages Price 81. Postage 19 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 hv Mrs Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, and illustrated BY engravings
of Crispus Attucks, the first martyr in the Boston
massacre of March 9th, ITO; Peter Salem, on
Bunker Hill, and facsimile autograph certifi-
cate of General Washington, rendered to 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 men S souls" From several com
mandatory notices of the press the following are
selections
"This neat volume Of nearly 400 pages is a verv
curious and interesting book, not only as regards
the character of its contents but being the pro-
duction OF young eolored 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 menial 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 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-
ere, and records very many deeds of prowess, not
forgetting, of course, those of the cofored 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. ."-Saiem Register,
''This work is 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 struggle of
this nation with the mother country it has too Of
ten been the policy of our white historians to 10
more or conceal Mr. Nell's industry in compiling
this volume is equalled only by his modest esti-
mate of the value of his laborsl He deserves the
thanks of every friend of impartial liberty and his
book should find place in every Antl-SIavery
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 looming them to
social prescription and virtual outlawry, in a land
for whose dehyerance from oppression their faith
ers freely shed their blood.-Anti- Slarerq 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
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 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 o.
value to every reader Rochester Democrat