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George Washington Williams : a biography
In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin's forty-year quest for Willia...
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University of Chicago Press,
1985.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : stalking George Washington Williams
- Soldier and student: William Steward ; Fort Arbuckle ; U.S. colored troops
- Successful clergyman: Elijah W ; Watertown ; Massachusetts
- Editor and publisher: Freedom's journal ; Frederick Douglass ; Mississippi
- A star in the Midwest: Cincinnati daily enquirer ; Republican Party ; Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Republican yeoman: Hamilton County ; Republican Party ; Cincinnati
- On the campaign trail: Hamilton County ; Cincinnati enquirer ; John Sherman
- Lawmaker from Hamilton County: Avondale ; Republican ; Blanche K
- Historian of the race: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center ; Slavery ; George W
- The historian and his public: York globe ; Thomas Fortune ; Fort Pillow
- A touch of distinction: Lewis Hayden ; Emancipation Day ; Cleveland gazette
- A diplomatic appointment: Haiti ; Thomas Hendricks ; Blanche K
- Advancing his people: Robert Gould Shaw ; Sharecrop ; Judge Advocate
- African journey: Bolobo ; Congo Free ; Congo River
- Observer and critic: Sir William Mackinnon ; Lord Vivian ; Congo River
- The final phase
- Appendix 1. An open letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II
- Appendix 2. A report on the proposed Congo railway
- Appendix 3. A report upon the Congo-state and country to the President of the Republic of the United States of America.