Publisher's Synopsis
SOJOURNER TRUTH, THE LIBYAN SIBYL by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 RECONSTRUCTION by Frederick Douglass 14 AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS FOR IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE by Frederick Douglas 19 THE NEGRO EXODUS by James B. Runnion 24 MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY by Frederick Douglass 32 THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE by Charles W. Chesnutt 40 PO' SANDY by Charles W. Chesnutt 48 DAVE'S NECKLISS by Charles W. Chesnutt 55 THE AWAKENING OF THE NEGRO by Booker T. Washington 64 THE STORY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Charles Dudley Warner 71 STRIVINGS OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 82 THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH by Charles W. Chesnutt 86 THE BOUQUET by Charles W. Chesnutt 94 THE CASE OF THE NEGRO by Booker T. Washington 102 HOT-FOOT HANNIBAL by Charles W. Chesnutt 113 A NEGRO SCHOOLMASTER IN THE NEW SOUTH by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 123 THE CAPTURE OF A SLAVER by J. Taylor Wood 129 MR. CHARLES W. CHESNUTT'S STORIES by W. D. Howells 142 PATHS OF HOPE FOR THE NEGRO by Jerome Dowd 144 SIGNS OF PROGRESS AMONG THE NEGROES by Booker T. Washington 149 THE MARCH OF PROGRESS by Charles W. Chesnutt 158 THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 166 OF THE TRAINING OF BLACK MEN by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 177 THE FRUITS OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING by Booker T. Washington 186 THE NEGRO IN THE REGULAR ARMY by Oswald Garrison Villard 196 BAXTER'S PROCRUSTES by Charles W. Chesnutt 204 THE HEART OF THE RACE PROBLEM by Quincy Ewing 212 NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN A DEMOCRACY by Ray Stannard Baker 221 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES ------------ 229
