Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860

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Title: Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860
This edition: "The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860" . Ed. Carter G. Woodson. Washington, DC: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1926. xxxii+672 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations: • Repr. New York: Russell & Russell, 1969. xxxii+672 pp.
• Repr. with Intro. Bob Blaisdell. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2013. xlix+672 pp. [Google Books limited preview]; Google Books (limited preview)
Online access: • HathiTrust (3 copies); HathiTrust
Table of contents: Introduction – I. Letters to the American Colonization Society – II. Letters to Antislavery Workers and Agencies – III. Letters Largely Personal or Private – IV. Miscellaneous Letters.
About the anthology: "This treasury of historically valuable correspondence contains hundreds of letters exchanged by African Americans and abolitionists in the decades preceding the Civil War. An essential reference for students of American history and politics, it recaptures the voices of slaves and freemen, lawyers, ministers, and political and philosophical leaders, including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison" (publisher's description for Dover edition; WorldCat).
Reviews and notices of anthology: • "Journal of Negro History" 11.4 (1926): 685-87. "JSTOR".
See also: • Another anthology edited by Carter G. Woodson (in 1925):; Negro Orators and Their Orations
Cited in: • Lash 1946: 723.
• [not in Kinnamon 1997]
Item Number: A0019

Item sets: Anthologies

Media: Front cover and spine; Front cover (2013 Dover ed.)

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