Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-02-04

VI lHe ocHllHoleS, through the Negroes
. Dyes and learn that the Indian and tho
, Negro raised among the Indians
fought shoulder to shoulder against
the efforts to make them migrate. Mr..
Brawley concludes his chapter on tho
Indian Wars with the statement: an
the course OF the Seminole wars Tire
rights OF Indian and Negro alike were
ruthlessly disregarded There was re.
dress for neither before tho courts, ana
ut the end in dealing with them every
honorable principle Of men and nations
, was violated The desire to get bach
runaway slaves who we're received By
the Indians and treated by them with
far more humanity than they wcru
treated by the whites. was u control
ling motive in the desire Of the people
Of FLORIDA and Alabama to force the
Indians to migrate.
Mr.. BrGwloy gives great. and deserv
: eddy great, Importance to the slave in
: surrectiOns OF Denmark Vesey and Nat
Turner. The terror that these men,
, especially Nat Turner implanted in
. the heart Of the southern slave holder
led to harsh Legislation especially
against tho free Negro. but in lifelong
run the Negro gained. Every time no
. made his hidcous status know he help
, Cd the cause OF anti-slavcry.
J Another matter, new in the recita
cf the nn!i-slavery agitation as We
, have read it in white histories. is the
: story of the convention Of Negroes held
: In philadelphia September Is. 1890.
three years before the founding Of the
! American Anti-Slavery Society. One
! roads here Of great names Of Bishop
! Allen Of Pennington Shadd and 9TH
} ers. And al these first conferences
! were the white champions OF freedom
! GARRISON. Tanpan, JOcclyn. The book
brings out with great clcarncrs the re
/ ho!lious Negro both slave and freeman
! Tho characteristics that We applaud
! when we see them in the Negro youth
today, their revolt against prejudice
, and oppression. Mr.. Brawley shows
vcry clearly were not missing in the
much more dangerous and dihlcuit
davs OF slavery.
, There Is All important chapter upon
; hheria, a story Of q brave group Of
=; prisoners whose difficulties were far
worse than those that the Puritan
; fathers ever encountered. There were
not only the immense hordcs Of nativ--
; rs. unfriendly from the first. but the
| EnroD"an movers. foremost among
, them the British. ready to seize any
unfair advantage and to steal from
| tlNe new republic whenever they found
! 1t safe. The marvel is that Liberia has
survived at oil. 49,. .-a
have said that Mr.. Rrawley IL un-
emotional, but one chepter. that on or
. ganization md agitation ends with the
wonderful story Of Soujourner Truth
speaking at the Woman's Suffrage Con
vention. Dat little man in black dar"
nnd Souiourncr Truth points her long
finger at him. "he say women cam.
have RS much rights as man.. cause
. Christ weren't woman. But what dii
Christ como from9" Raising her voice
she repeated, what did Christ como
: from? From God and n woman. Man
he'd nothing to do with him." How
witch we have missed who have nevei
, reen Soiourner Truth! But her words
| can still thunder through the centuries
and make the quiet historians page
aelow with spiritual flame.
! There is much In the latter part Of
} tho hook upon lynching and peonage
and tho author ends with an appeal
for order and law. 1t is a pretty big
task to COMPRESS tire story Of the Ne.
gro In the United States from 1876 to
! the prefent day in one hundred pages,
and If Mr.. Brawley seems less success
full here than in the earlier part of his
. book it Is not strange. 1t Is always
[ more difficult to deal with the nenr
times THIN with those far away. Wit
ness Mr.. Wells, whose Outline of His
; tory is at It's hest before man appears
upon the earth! But On the whole we
have an important. much needed work
that contains great deal Of material.
, some Of IT new, with which we should
all he familiar. 1t is book that wish
might be in every white Americans
library, and that should think no
colorcd American could afford to have
'ssing from his shelves