The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis 1800-1860

2010 Reprint of 1926 Edition.Carter G. Woodson made every effort to support his research with primary source documents, most of which he and his investigators gathered. In The Mind of the Negro Reflected in Letters Dr. Woodson pulled from original sources, primarily documents from church missions, anti-slavery societies and personal papers, those letters that shed light on the African-American experience in the six decades preceding the Civil War.



Chapters include:



Letters to the American Colonization Society



Letters to Antislavery Workers and Agencies



Letters largely Personal or Private



Miscellaneous Letters





In all hundreds of letters are reproduced.