OF THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA FROM 1619 TO 1880 NEGROES AS SLAVES, AS SOLDIERS, AND AS CITIZENS TOGETHER WITH A PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION OF THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA BY GEORGE W. WILLIAMS FIRST COLORED MEMBER OF THE OHIO LEGISLATURE, AND LATE JUDGE ADVOCATE of the NOTE. T HIS second volume brings the HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE IN After seven years I am loath to part with the saddest task ever The long spectral hand on the clock of American history points to great war for the extinction of slavery; in this anniversary week I com- GEO. W. WILLIAMS. HOFFMAN HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 28, 1882. CONTENTS. Part 4. CONSERVATIVE ERA-NEGROES IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. CHAPTER I. RESTRICTION AND EXTENSION. 1800-1825. PAGE Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. - Slave Population of 1800.- Memorial presented - CHAPTER II. NEGRO TROOPS IN THE WAR OF 1812. Employment of Negroes as Soldiers in the War of 1812. - The New York Legislature CHAPTER III. NEGROES IN THE NAVY. No Proscription against Negroes as Sailors. They are carried upon the Rolls in the Navy V 23 28 I |