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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

Summary: 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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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    Electronic data (1 file : ca. 325 kilobytes).
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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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General Note:
Text scanned (OCR) by Andrew Leiter. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Richard Musselwhite and Jill Kuhn.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.
Original Version Note:
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.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; Panorama for SGML files.
Source of Description Note:
Title from TEI header.
Subject: African Americans History
African Americans Social conditions
Black people History
Enslaved persons Emancipation United States
Lynching United States
Progress
Slavery United States History
United States Race relations History 19th century

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