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Foreign Parts among the Negroes in the Colonies

ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON: People of Color in Louisiana, Part I

WILLIAM T. McKINNEY: The Defeat of the Secessionists in Kentucky in 1861

J. KUNST:
Notes on Negroes in Guatemala During the Seventeenth Century;
A Mulatto Corsair of the Sixteenth Century

DOCUMENTS:
TRAVELERS' IMPRESSIONS OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA FROM 1750 TO 1800:
Burnaby's View of the Situation in Virginia;
General Treatment of Slaves Among the Albanians--Consequent Attachment
of Domestics.--Reflections on Servitude by an American Lady;
Impressions of an English Traveler;
Abbe Robin on Conditions in Virginia;
Observations of St. John De Crevecoeur;
Impressions of Johann D. Schoepf;
Extracts from Anburey's Travels Through North America;
Vindication of the Negroes: A Controversy;
Sur L'etat General, Le Genre D'industrie, Les Moeurs, Le Caractere,
Etc. Des Noirs, Dans Les Etats-unis;
Slavery as Seen by Henry Wansey;
Esclavage Par La Rochefoucauld-liancourt;
Observations Sur L'esclavage Par La Rochefoucauld-liancourt;
What Isaac Weld Observed in Slave States;
John Davis's Thoughts on Slavery;
Observations of Robert Sutcliff;
SOME LETTERS OF RICHARD ALLEN AND ABSALOM JONES TO DOROTHY RIPLEY:
Letter from an African Minister, Resident in Philadelphia Addressed
to Dorothy Ripley.
Letter from an African, resident in Philadelphia, to Dorothy Ripley

REVIEWS OF BOOKS:
CLAYTON'S _The Aftermath of the Civil War, in Arkansas_;
EVANS'S _Black and White in the Southern States_;
SAYERS'S _Samuel Coleridge-Taylor--Musician. His Life and Letters_;
BAILEY'S _Race Orthodoxy in the South and Other Aspects of the Negro
Problem_;

NOTES

THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY

VOL. I--OCTOBER, 1916--No. 4

THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS
AMONG THE NEGROES IN THE COLONIES

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was
organized in London in the year 1701. During the eighteenth century the
British Colonies of the New World constituted the principal field of
missionary endeavor for this organization. There were then in North America
250,000 settlers, whole colonies of whom were living in heathenism while
others were adhering to almost every variety of strange faiths. The work of
proselyting these people was too important to b