Historical Romance of the American Negro

Though this is the year of grace, just forty-seven years after the date when my adventurous story begins, my recollections of that bright morning in May, 1855, when I arose and...

_Beulah's Journey to New Orleans--Rescues Her Mother From Slavery, and Mother and Daughter Return to Buffalo on the Good Boat Columbia, by Way of Havana, in the Island of Cuba,...

_Mrs. Lincoln Brings Her Mother to Buffalo--Warm Welcome Home--Harriet Jackson married to Mr. J. B. Sutherland--Letter From Mrs. Sarah Jackson and Beulah's Answer--Beulah, Mrs....

"The determination of the slave-holding oligarchy is to keep our persecuted race under a bushel--both soul and body--and to sit down on the top of that bushel for all coming tim...

As my indulgent readers would perhaps like to know the lines of "The Negro's Complaint," which were sung so beautifully by the campaign glee club that night at the great meeting...

_Great Service of the Colored Race--Heroic Colored Women--Attack on Fort Wagner, 18th July, 1863--The ex-Slaves go to School--The Freedman's Bureau--The Jubilee Minstrels--A Lon...

_Tom's Letter From the Seat of War--The Pilgrim's Progress--Niagara Falls--Visit to Canada--Letters From Richmond Hill--Great War Interest in Canada--The Girl's Letter to Papa--...

_The Fight at Marion, Tennessee--The Battle of Nashville--Success of the Northern Armies--Massacre at Fort Pillow--The Rebels Refuse to Exchange Colored Soldiers--Our Defeat at...

_The Colored Men of Iowa--Hard Fight Near White River--The Men of Kansas--Enthusiasm for the War--Fight at Butler--Battle of Cabin Creek--Battle of Honey Springs--The Battle of...

_Mrs. Beulah Lincoln and the Girls Leave Buffalo for New Orleans--The Journey to Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Ohio--Voyage Down the Ohio to the Mississippi--Arrival at New O...

_Grand Demonstration at the Military Hospital--Music and Speeches--The Armies Reviewed by President Lincoln--The War in Virginia--Fight at New Market Heights--Fall of Petersburg...

_Receptions at Buffalo--The Lincoln's and Sutherland's Visit to Canada--Their Grand Reception There--Our Sacrifices for the Union and Freedom--The Difficulties of Reconstruction...

General Grant had been elected President of the United States in 1868 for his first term of office. In 1872 he carried the Southern States once more. He met with but little oppo...

My dear, kind reader, as I have already indicated, the eventful year of 1870 had come, and the Fifteenth Amendment had become the law of the land. From Maine to Texas, from the...

_The Great Commercial Panic of 1873--Collapse of the Republican Government of the South--The Rebel Shot-Gun--The Force Bill--Rebellion at New Orleans--Dangerous State of the Who...

_The Exodus of Colored People From the South to Kansas--Causes That Led to it--The Plantation Credit System--Reign of Terror in Louisiana and Other States--Trials on the Way to...

We are not to suppose, my dear reader, that the coming of so many colored people to Kansas was in the beginning cordially agreed to by every white citizen of that State. Indeed,...

This chapter will introduce the kind reader to my life and times in the eventful year 1876--eventful in the history of my own family, because my two dear daughters had now almos...

One of the hardest things in the world is to keep down a man who is determined to rise. He comes up like a plant of spontaneous growth, and the more we try to keep him down, the...

few and far between, the wish among many of the anti-slavery school, at least, seems to have been father to the thought that so clever a man could never have been the offspring...

_Our First Great Men and Women--New Lights to the Front--Our Own Humble Beginning in 1865--Cleanliness and Industry--Music and Song--Immense Progress in Education, and a Mighty...

When I left the place where I was born, in the year 1855, and made my lucky escape to a land of freedom, in company with my fiancee, Thomas Lincoln, I had no idea whatever of th...