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BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is no helpful bibliography on the early education of the A the recent problehteneneral eator has to depend on promiscuous sources for adequate information of this kind

With the exception of a survey of the _Legal Status of the Colored Population in Respect to Schools and Education in the Different States_, published in the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education in 1871, there has been no atteeneral treatment of this phase of our history This treatise, however, is too brief to inculcate an appreciation of the extensive efforts to enlighten the ante-belluro

Considered as a local problem this question has received more attention A feriters have undertaken to sketch the movement to educate the colored people of certain communities before the Civil War Their objective point, however, has been rather to treat of later periods The books ive some inforraph

BOOKS ON EDUCATION

Andrews, CC _The history of the New York African Free Schools from their Establishment in 1787 to the Present Time_ (New York, 1830) Embraces a period of more than forty years, also a brief account of the successful labors of the New York Manuinal composition, both in prose and verse, by several of the pupils; pieces spoken at public exaue between Doctor Samuel L

Mitchell, of New York, and a little boy of ten years old, and lines illustrative of the Lancastrian syste time the head of this colored school system

Boese, Thomas _Public Education in the City of New York, Its History, Condition, and Statistics, an Official Report of the Board of Education_ (New York, 1869) While serving as clerk of the Board of Education Boese had an opportunity to learn much about the New York African Free Schools

Boone, RG _A History of Education in Indiana_ (New York, 1892) Contains a brief account of the work of the Abolitionists in behalf of the education of the Negroes of that commonwealth

BUTLER, NM _Education in the United States_ A series of raphs

(New York, 1910)

FOOTE, JP _The Schools of Cincinnati and Its Vicinity_ (Cincinnati, 1855) A few pages of this book are devoted to the establishment and the development of colored schools in that city

GOODWIN, MB ”History of Schools for the Colored Population in the District of Columbia” (Published in the Report of the United States Coh research hitherto made in this field The saomery in his _Historical Sketch of Education for the Colored Race in the District of Coluton, DC, 1907) A less detailed account of the same is found in Jaton,--Their Origin, Growth, and Present Condition” (AME Church Review_, vol v, p

279)

JONES, CC _The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States_ (Savannah, 1842) In trying to depict the spiritual condition of the colored people the writer tells also what he thought about their intellectual status

MERIWETHER, C _History of Higher Education in South Carolina, with a Sketch of the Free School Systeton, 1889) The author accounts for the early education of the colored people in that coives no details

MILLER, KELLY ”_The Education of the Negro_” Constitutes Chapter XVI of the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1901 Contains a brief sketch of the early education of the Negro race in this country

ORR, GUSTAVUS _The Need of Education in the South_ (Atlanta, 1880) An address delivered before the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational association in 1879 Mr Orr referred to the first efforts to educate the Negroes of the South

PLUMER, WS _Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of Negroes_

Reference isthe colored people

RANDALL, SAMUEL SIDWELL _The Common School System of the State of New York_ (New York, 1851) Coether with full expositions, instructions, and forms, to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the systeislature, under the direction of the Honorable Christopher Morgan, Superintendent of Common Schools

STOCKWELL, THOMAS B _A History of Public Education in Rhode Island from 1636 to 1876_ (Providence, 1876) Compiled by authority of the Board of Education of Providence Takes into account the various roes of that commonwealth

WICKERSHAM, JP _A History of Education in Pennsylvania, Private and Public, Eleher, from the Time the Swedes Settled on the Delaware to the Present Day_ (Lancaster, Pa, 1886) Considerable space is given to the education of the Negroes

WRIGHT, RR, SR _A Brief Historical Sketch of Negro Education in Georgia_ (Savannah, 1894) Thethe early period in that State is here disposed of in a few pages

_A Brief Sketch of the Schools for the Black People and their Descendants, Established by the Society of Friends_, etc