: Historical Romance of the American Negro by Fowler Charles Henry - African Americans History

@FreeBooks

Posted in: #FreeBooks #FreeBooksIndia #FreeBooksApp #gg

Vote Up Vote Down   0 Reactions

Login to give Reaction!

Respectfully yours--Charles H. Fowler M. D. A. M. BEULAH JACKSON. THE ESCAPE. SCENES IN NEW ORLEANS. SCENES IN BUFFALO. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BATTLE OF MILLIKEN'S BEND. BATTLE OF PORT HUDSON. JOHN BROWN. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER. A SCENE ON THE JACKSON PLANTATION. SCENES AT NIAGARA FALLS. COTTON PICKING. A RELIC OF SLAVERY DAYS. MR. JACKSON. HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED. EMANCIPATION STATUE BOSTON, MASS. HAULING COTTON TO THE GIN. FIRST READING EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. DE SOTO DISCOVERING MISSISSIPPI RIVER. IN DANGER OF THE OVERSEER'S LASH. JAMES A. GARFIELD. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. CHAS. SUMNER. WM. LLOYD GARRISON. FRED'K DOUGLASS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. SOUTHERN CHIVALRY--ARGUMENT VERSUS CLUB'S. STATUE OF LIBERTY. GRANT'S TOMB. DICKENS' OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. TOWER OF LONDON. GEN. ANTONIO MACEO. THE DEFENSE OF SANTIAGO. BATTLE OF SAN JUAN HILL. COLORED SOLDIERS AND MUSICIANS. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. THE BOSTON MASSACRE. THE GRAVE OF NICK BIDDLE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

PREFACE

For a number of years it has been on my mind to write a book regarding the principal events that have occurred to the colored race since the beginning of the agitation against slavery, going on from thence to the great Rebellion, passing through that war, and also dealing with all subjects of great importance that have arrested our attention under our glorious freedom.

At the same time it has occurred to me, as it has to many another writer, that my book would be far more interesting to the general reader, if I were to select a representative woman of our own race, and make her the mouthpiece of all I wished to say; in other words, to introduce the whole under the pleasing form of an historical romance, so that we might keep our heroine constantly before our eyes, and make her weave in a continuous tale of love, travel, war and peace, and thus portray the lady playing her own parts on that tremendous stage of Time that has been set forth for the gaze and astonishment of the whole country during the past fifty years. I hope those members of the general public who favor me by a perusal of my book will be pleased with my plan.

"Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war," and I have introduced into my book all the great advances that our race has made since the fall of Richmond, and, indeed, have brought things down to this year. The reader will find a number of things that are intended to introduce humor, and to brighten the darker portions of the story.

And as some fault-finding person may say that I have overdrawn my heroine, and made her far more clever than she could ever have naturally been, I venture to affirm that such a charge can by no means be just, for we have women among us, and men, too, who are as intelligent and clever as can be found among any other race on the face of the earth. I believe my book will prove the truth of this assertion in those cases, at least, where the heroines and heroes of the colored race are mentioned in its pages by name.

Beulah Jackson will therefore stand as a representative woman among our own people.

CHARLES H. FOWLER.

Baltimore, Md., 1902.

INTRODUCTORY.

In this period of the Negro's development so much has been wielded towards influencing him in the expression of manly sentiment, that when an unhampered and heartfelt defense is made in his behalf by one of his number, it should, and I believe will, secure a universal support by the defenders.

The eagerness to devour books is so prevalent in the present decade that the Anglo-Saxon litterateurs and publishers endeavor to withhold and suppress all that tends to prove the Negro a man and an equal, patting all of their writers and molders of public opinion on the back, who are cringing and palliating with the deceitful exclamation, "Behold, thee! thou art great!" The desire to secure this cowardly approbation has, indeed, become too numerous. Learned men, with ability to withhold the sentiments of their hearts and people, have too frequently sold the golden opportunities of their lives for paltry sums and positions to these literary hawks. But few of the public speakers and writers of these times dare utter the thoughts of Douglass, Turner, Price, Garnett, and that grand galaxy of post-bellum fighters, who knew no middle ground, but stood out for all that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution had embodied in them. They had no axe to grind, and even so, their oppressed feelings wouldn't permit them have it ground at the expense of the manhood of their four million brothers.

Free books android app tbrJar TBR JAR Read Free books online gutenberg

(0)

Login to post a comment!