William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. This book written in a question and answer format is his view of the history or the “Negro Race” from Africa through slavery in the United States, and accomplishments after emancipation, and all fields of culture through near the end of the 19th Century. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
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Dedication, Preface and Publisher's Announcement Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:58
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Negro Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 5:52
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Slavery Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 13:55
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Slavery Abolished Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 5:48
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A Marble Shaft to the Memory of the Memory of Faithful Slaves Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:56
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Population Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 8:00
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Our Race Name Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 5:10
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Financial Growth Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 3:58
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The White South and Negro Education Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 6:33
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What Negro Education Has Done for the South Since the War Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:46
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What Benevolence Has Done for Negro Education Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:51
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Schools Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 14:38
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Deceased Race Leaders Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:48
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The Negro as a Soldier Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 9:13
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Negro Education During the Rebellion Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:37
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Negroes in Federal Offices Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 8:29
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Negro Members of Congress Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 3:47
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Negro Lawyers Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 4:29
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Negro Physicians Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 4:50
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The Negro in Dentistry Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 4:20
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Afro-American Authors Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 16:54
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''The Dying Bondman" Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:37
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Great Words of a Great Man Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 3:54
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Best Thoughts of Negro Leaders Read by Andrew Kennedy 16:38
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The Negro Press Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 4:50
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Representative Negro Editors Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:53
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Negro Women Writers of Distinction Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:37
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The Stage Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 7:26
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Insurance Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 4:18
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Banks Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:14
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Sanitatariums and Hospital Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:56
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Homes for the Negro Homeless Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 5:59
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Artists Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:20
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Negro Baptist Church Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 4:00
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African Methodist Episcopal Church Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 3:19
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African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:58
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C. M. E. Church in America Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:11
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The Presbyterian Chuch and the Negro Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:06
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Negro Cumberland Presbyterians Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:11
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Underground Railroad Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 2:20
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Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows in America Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 8:01
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Scottish Rite Negro Masons Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 13:42
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Independent Order Immaculate Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:47
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The Order of Twelve Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 3:28
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Negro Pythian Knights Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 1:44
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Benevolent Order of Colored Professionals Read by Larry Wilson and 1 other 0:51
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The Y.M.C.A. Work Read by RickHall 1:10
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Miscellaneous Race Facts Read by RickHall 37:13
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Greatest Things on Earth Read by RickHall 6:44
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens babel.hathitrust.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
