The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

Chapter 37

TREMAIN, MARY M.A. _Slavery in the District of Columbia_. (University of Nebraska Seminary Papers, April, 1892.)

_History of Brown County, Ohio_. (Chicago, 1883.)

"_Slavery in Illinois, 1818-1824." (Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society Collections_, volume x.)

CHURCH HISTORIES

BANGS, NATHAN. _A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church_. Four volumes. (New York, 1845.)

BENEDICT, DAVID. _A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and in Other Parts of the World_. (Boston, 1813.)

---- _Fifty Years among the Baptists_. (New York, 1860.)

DALCHO, FREDERICK. _An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, from the First Settlement of the Province to the War of the Revolution_; with notices of the present State of the Church in each Parish: and some Accounts of the early Civil History of Carolina never before published. To which are added: the Laws relating to Religious Worship, the Journal and Rules of the Convention of South Carolina; the Const.i.tution and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Course of Ecclesiastical Studies. (Charleston, 1820.)

DAVIDSON, REV. ROBERT. _History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Kentucky; with a Preliminary Sketch of the Churches in the Valley of Virginia._ (New York, Pittsburgh, and Lexington, Kentucky, 1847.)

HAMILTON, JOHN T. _A History of the Church Known as the Moravian Church, or the Unitas Fratrum, or the Unity of Brethren during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries._ (Bethlehem, Pa., 1900.)

HAWKS, FRANCIS L. _Ecclesiastical History of the United States._ (New York, 1836.)

JAMES, CHARLES P. _Doc.u.mentary History of the Struggle for Religious Liberty in Virginia._ (Lynchburg, Va., 1900.)

MATLACK, LUCIUS. _The History of American Slavery and Methodism from 1780 to 1849: and History of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. In Two Parts with an Appendix._ (New York, 1849.)

MCTYEIRE, HOLLAND N. _A History of Methodism; comprising a View of the Rise of the Revival of Spiritual Religion in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, and the Princ.i.p.al Agents by whom it was promoted in Europe and America, with some Account of the Doctrine and Polity of Episcopal Methodism in the United States and the Means and Manner of its Extension down to 1884._ (Nashville, Tenn., 1884.) McTyeire was one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

REICHEL, L.T. _The Early History of the Church of the United Brethren (Unitas Fratrum) commonly Called Moravians in North America, from 1734 to 1748._ (Nazareth, Pa., 1888.)

RUSH, CHRISTOPHER. _A Short Account of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America._ Written by the aid of George Collins. Also a view of the Church Order or Government from Scripture and from some of the best Authors relative to Episcopacy. (New York, 1843.)

SEMPLE, R.B. _History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia._ (Richmond, 1810.)

SERMONS, ORATIONS, ADDRESSES

BACON, THOMAS. _Sermons Addressed to Masters and Servants._ Published in 1743. Republished with other tracts by Rev. William Meade.

(Winchester, Va., 1805.)

BOUCHER, JONATHAN. "American Education." This address is found in the author"s volume ent.i.tled _A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution_; in thirteen discourses, preached in North America between the years 1763 and 1775: with an historical preface.

(London, 1797.)

BUCHANAN, GEORGE. _An Oration upon the Moral and Political Evil of Slavery_. Delivered at a Public Meeting of the Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Relief of Free Negroes and others unlawfully held in Bondage. Baltimore, July 4, 1791.

(Baltimore, 1793.)

CATTO, WILLIAM T. _A Semicentenary Discourse Delivered in the First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the 4th Sabbath of May, 1857_: with a History of the Church from its first organization; including a brief Notice of Reverend John Gloucester, its First Pastor. Also an appendix containing sketches of all the Colored Churches in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, 1857.) The author was then pastor of this church.

DANA, JAMES. _The African Slave Trade_. A Discourse delivered in the City of New Haven, September 9, 1790, before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom. (New Haven, 1790.) Dr. Dana was at that time the pastor of the First Congregational Church of New Haven.

FAWCETT, BENJAMIN. _A Compa.s.sionate Address to the Christian Negroes in Virginia, and other British Colonies in North America_. With an appendix containing some account of the rise and progress of Christianity among that poor people. (The second edition, Salop, printed by F. Edwards and F. Cotton.)

GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD. _An Address Delivered before the Free People of Color in Philadelphia, New York, and other Cities during the Month of June, 1831_. (Boston, 1831.)

GRIFFIN, EDWARD DORR. _A Plea for Africa_. A Sermon preached October 26, 1817, in the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York before the Synod of New York and New Jersey at the Request of the Board of Directors of the African School established by the Synod.

(New York, 1817.) The aim was to arouse interest in this school.

JONES, CHARLES COLc.o.c.k. _The Religious Instruction of Negroes_. A Sermon delivered before the a.s.sociation of the Planters in Liberty and McIntosh Counties, Georgia. (Princeton, N.J., 1832.) Jones was then engaged in the work which he was discussing.

MAYO, A.D. "Address on Negro Education." (_Springfield Republican_, July 9, 1897; and the _New England Magazine_, October, 1898.)

RUSH, BENJAMIN. _An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America upon Slave Keeping_. The second edition with observations on a pamphlet ent.i.tled _Slavery not Forbidden by the Scripture or a Defense of the West Indian Planters by a Pennsylvanian_. (Philadelphia, 1773.) The Negroes" need of education is pointed out.

SECKER, THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury. _A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts_; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St.

Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, February 20, 1741. (London 1741.) In this discourse Secker set forth his plan of teaching the Negroes to elevate themselves.

SIDNEY, JOSEPH. _An Oration Commemorative of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the United States Delivered before the Wilberforce Philanthropic a.s.sociation in the City of New York on January 2, 1809_.

(New York, 1809.) The speaker did not forget the duty of all men to uplift those unfortunates who had already been degraded.

SMITH, THOMAS P. _An Address before the Colored Citizens of Boston in Opposition to the Abolition of Colored Schools, 1849_. (Boston, 1850.)

WARBURTON, WILLIAM, Bishop of Gloucester. _A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts_; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St.

Mary-le-Bow on Friday, February 21, 1766. (London, 1766.) The speaker urged his hearers to enlighten the Indians and Negroes.

REPORTS ON THE EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE

_Report of the Proceedings at the Formation of the African Education Society_; inst.i.tuted at Washington, December 28, 1829. With an Address to the Public by the Board of Managers. (Washington, 1830.)

_Report of the Minority of the Committee of the Primary School Board on the Caste Schools of the City of Boston._ With some remarks on the City Solicitor"s Opinion, by Wendell Phillips. (Boston, 1846.)

_Report of a Special Committee of the Grammar School Board of Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts._ Abolition of the Smith Colored School. (Boston, 1849.)

_Report of the Primary School Committee, Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts._ Abolition of the Colored Schools. (Boston, 1846.)

_Report of the Minority of the Committee upon the Pet.i.tion of J.T.

Hilton and other Colored Citizens of Boston, Praying for the Abolition of the Smith Colored School._ (Boston, 1849.)

_Opinion of Honorable Richard Fletcher as to whether Colored Children can be Lawfully Excluded from Free Public Schools._ (Boston, 1846.)

_Special Report of the Commissioner of Education on the Improvement of the Public Schools in the District of Columbia_, containing M.B.

Goodwin"s "History of Schools for the Colored Population in the District of Columbia." (Washington, 1871.)

_Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the New York Public School Society, 1842._ (New York, 1842.)

STATISTICS