onia Lewis, _Emancipation_ in
Washington by Thomas Ball, _Emancipation_ in Edinburgh, Scotland, by
George E. Bissell, _Emancipation_ panel on the Military Monument in
Cleveland by Levi T. Scofield, _Emancipation_ by Meta Warrick Fuller,
_The Beecher Monument_ in Brooklyn by J. I. A. Ward, _Africa_ by
Randolph Rogers, _Africa_ by Daniel C. French, _The Harriet Tubman
Tablet, The Frederick Douglass Monument_ in Rochester, _The Attucks
Monument_ in Boston by Robert Kraus, _The Faithful Slaves Monument_ in
Fort Mill, South Carolina, _l'Africane_ by E. Caroni, _l'Abolizione_
by R. Vincenzo, _Ethiopia_ and _Toussaint L'Ouverture_ by Anne
Whitney, _The Slave Auction_, _The Fugitive's Story_, _Taking the Oath
and Drawing Rations_, _The Wounded Scout_, and _Uncle Ned's School_ by
John Rogers, _The Slave Memorial_ by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and _The
Death of Major Montgomery_.

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_The Question Before Congress. A consideration of the Debates and
final action by Congress upon various Phases of the Race Question in
the United States._ By GEORGE W. MITCHELL. The A. M. E. Book Concern,
Philadelphia, 1918. Pp. 237.

This book contains little which has not been extensively treated in
various other works of standard authors. It goes over the ground
covered in books easily accessible in most local libraries. Yet there
is in it something which the historian does not find in these other
works. It is this same drama of history as it appears to an
intelligent man of color well read in the history of this country
although lacking the attitude of a scientific investigator. Whether he
has written an accurate book is of little value here. These facts are
already known. He has enabled the public to know the Negro's reaction
on these things and that in itself is a contribution to history.

As to exactly what the author has treated little needs to be said. He
begins with the slavery question in the Federal Convention of 1787
which framed the Constitution of the United States. Then comes the
treatment of the slave trade, the debate on the Missouri Compromise,
the exclusion of abolition literature from the mails, the attack on
the right of petition, the exodus of antislavery men from the South,
the murder of Lovejoy, the coming of Giddings to Congress, the Wilmot
Proviso, the formation of the Free Soil party, antislavery men in
Congress, the effort to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia,
the slavery