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Excerpt: "The calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation. They delight to descant upon the "natural inferiority" of the blacks, and claim that we were destined only for a servile condition, entitled neither to liberty nor the legitimate pursuit of happiness. The second class are those who are ignorant of the characteristics of the race, and are the mere echoes of the first. To meet and refute these misrepresentations, and to supply a deficiency, long felt in the community, of a work containing sketches of individuals who, by their own genius, capacity, and intellectual development, have surmounted the many obstacles which slavery[Pg 6] and prejudice have thrown in their way, and raised themselves to positions of honor and influence, this volume was written. The characters represented in most of these biographies are for the first time put in print. The author's long sojourn in Europe, his opportunity of research amid the archives of England and France, and his visit to the West Indies, have given him the advantage of information respecting the blacks seldom acquired. If this work shall aid in vindicating the Negro's character, and show that he is endowed with those intellectual and amiable qualities which adorn and dignify human nature, it will meet the most sanguine hopes of the writer."
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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
31WILLIAM H. SIMPSON.
2MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
32JEAN PIERRE BOYER.
3THE BLACK MAN
33JAMES M'CUNE SMITH, M. D.
4BENJAMIN BANNEKER.
34BISHOP PAYNE.
5NAT TURNER.
35WILLIAM STILL.
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6MADISON WASHINGTON.
36EDWIN M. BANNISTER.
7HENRY BIBB.
37LEONARD A. GRIMES.
8PLACIDO.
38PRESIDENT GEFFRARD.
9JEREMIAH B. SANDERSON.
39GEORGE B. VASHON.
10TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.
40ROBERT MORRIS.
11CRISPUS ATTUCKS.
41WILLIAM J. WILSON.
12DESSALINES.
42JOHN MERCER LANGSTON.
13IRA ALDRIDGE.
43WILLIAM C. NELL.
14JOSEPH CINQUE.
44JOHN SELLA MARTIN.
15ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
45CHARLES LENOX REMOND.
16HENRI CHRISTOPHE.
46GEORGE T. DOWNING.
17PHILLIS WHEATLEY.
47ROBERT PURVIS.
18DENMARK VESEY.
48JOSEPH JENKINS.
19HENRY HIGHLAND GARNETT.
49JOHN S. ROCK.
20JAMES M. WHITFIELD.
50WILLIAM DOUGLASS.
21ANDRE RIGAUD.
51ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS.
22FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS.
52J. THEODORE HOLLY.
23EX-PRESIDENT ROBERTS.
53JAMES W. C. PENNINGTON.
24ALEXANDER CRUMMELL.
54A MAN WITHOUT A NAME.
25ALEXANDRE PETION.
55SAMUEL R. WARD.
26MARTIN R. DELANY, M. D.
56SIR EDWARD JORDAN.
27ROBERT SMALL.
57JOSEPH CARTER.
28FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
58JAMES LAWSON.
29CHARLES L. REASON.
59CAPTAIN CALLIOUX.
30CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN.
60CAPTAIN JOSEPH HOWARD.
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