The tragedy of the Negro in America
Subtitle: a condensed history of the enslavement, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America
By: Stanford, P. Thomas
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; History; Slavery; Slaves; Emancipation; Lynching; Social conditions; Black people; Race relations; Progress
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Distinguishes between the "authorized" tragedy of the enslavement of blacks and the "unauthorized" tragedy of the treatment of blacks under ante-bellum injustice. Discusses the beginning and growth of the slave trade and condemns the false Christianity that perpetuated it, while praising the good deeds of some sects like the Quakers and the practices of the Northern states. He describes the suffering of the freedmen after the war, blaming Andrew Johnson and the justice system for failing to control racist legislation after the war. He gives statistics for the number of lynchings in the 1890s and catalogs the horrors of everyday life for Southern blacks, finally looking forward towards a continued remediation of their situation.
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Transcribed from: The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavement, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America / by Rev. P. Thos. Stanford., D.D., LL. D., pastor of Zion Congregational Church, Haverhill, Massachusetts: late pastor of the Wilberforce Memorial Church, Birmingham, England. Boston, Mass. : Charles A. Wasto, 1897. [8], xvi, 230 p. : ill., facsim., ports. ; 20 cm.

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