F NEGRO
HISTORY and with a topical outline of the contents of the back
numbers.

Clubs will be left free to work out their own organization and plans.
The management, however, follows the plan of a group working under the
simplest restrictions. There should be elected a president, a
secretary, a treasurer, and an instructor. The last named official
should be the most intelligent and the best informed member of the
group.

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E. Payen's _Belgique et Congo_ and P. Daye's _Les Conquetes
Africaniques des Belge_ have been published by Berger-Levrault in
Paris.

The Cornhill Publishing Company has brought out _Twenty-five Years in
the Black Belt_ by W. J. Edwards.

P. A. Means has published through Marshall Jones _Racial Factors in a
Democracy_.

The following significant articles have appeared in recent numbers of
periodicals: _The Worth of an African_, by R. Keable in the July
number of the International Review of Missions; _How Germany treats
the Natives_ by Evans Lewis and M. Montgomery-Campbell; _Germany and
Africa_ by Ethel Jollie in the June number of the United Empire;
_International Interference in African Affairs_ by Sir. H. H. Johnson
in the April number of the Journal of Comparative Legislation and
International Law; _The Native Question in British East Africa_ in the
April number of the Contemporary Review; and _The Christian Occupation
of Africa_ in the Proceedings of the African Conference.

THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY

VOL. IV--JULY, 1919--NO. 3

THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES AS SOLDIERS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY

The problem of arming the slaves was of far greater concern to the
South, than to the North. It was fraught with momentous consequences
to both sections, but pregnant with an influence, subtle yet powerful,
which would affect directly the ultimate future of the Confederate
Government. The very existence of the Confederacy depended upon the
ability of the South to control the slave population. At the outbreak
of the Civil War great fear as to servile insurrection was aroused in
the South and more restrictive measures were enacted.[1]

Most of the Negro population was living in the area under rebellion,
and in many cases the slaves outnumbered the whites. To arm these
slaves would mean the lighting of a torch which, in the burning, might
spread a flame throughout the slave kingdom. If the Negro in the midst
of oppression had been in posses