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Title: The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916

Author: Various

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Language: English

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THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY

EDITED BY

CARTER G. WOODSON

VOL. I., No. 1 JANUARY, 1916

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY

CONTENTS

CARTER G. WOODSON: The Negroes of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War

W. B. HARTGROVE: The Story of Maria Louise Moore and Fannie M. Richards

MONROE N. WORK: The Passing Tradition and the African Civilization

A. O. STAFFORD: The Mind of the African Negro as reflected in his Proverbs

DOCUMENTS:
What the Negro was thinking during the Eighteenth Century.
Letters showing the Rise and Progress of the early Negro Churches
of Georgia and The West Indies.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS:
STEWARD'S _Haitian Revolution_;
CROMWELL'S _The Negro in American History_;
ELLIS'S _Negro Culture in West Africa_; and
WOODSON'S _The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861_.

NOTES

THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY, INCORPORATED

41 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA.
2223 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C.

25 Cents A Copy $1.00 A Year

Copyright, 1916

Application made for entry as second class mail matter at the Postoffice
at Lancaster, Pa.

THE NEGROES OF CINCINNATI PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR

The study of the history of the Negroes of Cincinnati is unusually
important for the reason that from no other annals do we get such
striking evidence that the colored people generally thrive when
encouraged by their white neighbors. This story is otherwise significant
when we consider the fact that about a fourth of the persons of color
settling in the State of Ohio during the first half of the last century
made their homes in this city. Situated on a north bend of the Ohio
where commerce breaks bulk, Cincinnati rapidly developed, attracting
both foreigners and Americ