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Africa and America; addresses and discourses

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Title
Africa and America; addresses and discourses
Names
Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1891
Place: Springfield, Mass.
Publisher: Willey
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-900 [pt. 10]
Topics
African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa
Genres
Books
Notes
Content: CONTENTS - The need of new ideas and new motives for a newera. - The race-problem in America. - The Black woman of the South. - Defense of the Negro race in America. - The responsibility of the first fathers of a country. - Our national mistakes and the remedy for them. - Eulogy on Thomas Clarkson. - Eulogy on Rev. Henry Highland Garnett. - Address before the American Geographical Society, on theKing of Belgium's Congo State. - Common sense in common schooling. - Excellence, an end of the trained intellect. - Right-mindedness. - The dignity of labour. - Emigration,an aid to the civilization of Africa. - The regeneration of Africa. - Address at the laying of the corner stone of the new St. Thomas Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
Physical Description
Microfilms
Extent: 466 p.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10228405
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3069ec00-0033-0130-3864-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1819: Creator Born
  • 1891: Issued
  • 1898: Creator Died
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Africa and America; addresses and discourses" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1891. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/930cd605-aa52-c236-e040-e00a18060a8d

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Africa and America; addresses and discourses" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 9, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/930cd605-aa52-c236-e040-e00a18060a8d

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1891). Africa and America; addresses and discourses Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/930cd605-aa52-c236-e040-e00a18060a8d

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Africa and America; addresses and discourses