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...third of the series of monographs published under the authority of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women is a treatise entitled "Fugitive Slaves," written by Marion Gleason McDougall. This is the first of the Fay House Monographs devoted to a historical subject, the two former having dealt with scientific subjects. In the present monograph the author has undertaken to bring together a compact account of the whole subject of the escape of slaves, and of the legislation to prevent escapes. Beginning with colonial times the writer recounts many famous cases of attempted escape, including the little-known failure...
HISTORY 13 SEMINARS.- Friday, I at 2 p. m. General View, 1824 to the end, by administrations. II at 7.15 p. m. Important questions, slave cases, constitutional questions, reading...
HISTORY 13 SEMINARS.- Friday, I at 2 p. m. General View, 1824 to the end, by administrations. II at 7.15 p. m. Important questions, slave cases, constitutional questions, reading...
...most important of DeFoe's novels, with the exception of Robinson Crusoe, is Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes...
Seminary in American History. The Colonial Slave Trade. Mr. W. E. B. DuBois.- Colonial Tariffs. Mr. William Hill. University...