Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading - A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.

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Title: Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.

Author: Various

Release Date: August 6, 2007 [EBook #22256]

Language: English

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AS IT ONCE WAS—THE LIFE OF A SLAVE. AS IT ONCE WAS—THE LIFE OF A SLAVE.

SPARKLING GEMS

OF

RACE KNOWLEDGE WORTH READING.

A COMPENDIUM OF VALUABLE INFORMATION

AND WISE SUGGESTIONS THAT WILL INSPIRE NOBLE EFFORT AT THE HANDS OF EVERY RACE-LOVING MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.

ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB HALF-TONE ENGRAVINGS.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY

JAMES T. HALEY.

SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION, PRICE, $1.25.

"Give attendance to reading." (1 Tim. iv. 13.)

"No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with good books. A book is better than sleep for weariness." (Henry Ward Beecher.)

Nashville, Tenn.:

J. T. Haley & Company, Publishers. 1897.

DEDICATION.

To every Son and Daughter of the Race, whose noble aspirations are to do good and be good, This Little Volume Is Dedicated By the Compiler.

Copyright, 1897, by J. T. Haley & Company.

PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT.

If, as Lord Bacon says, "reading makes a full man," then it behooves every one who has any aspirations to read.

The negro is just passing, as it were, through the gateway that enters upon life's great work, and the publishers of this little volume are anxious to see our "brother in black" develop, both from an intellectual and a moral standpoint, and are ready to do what they can to stimulate the race on to still greater achievements than they have ever before accomplished. In launching "Sparkling Gems" we are simply putting forth to the world what we hope may, in

some measure, instruct and encourage the colored people. We have compressed a vast amount of valuable race information into a small compass. The style of the work is good, and its moral tone is excellent. It can scarcely fail to profit every member of the race who will read it, hence it should be in every family, in every office, and in every library.

It has been the earnest aim of the compiler to embody in these pages the latest conclusions of some of the most prominent Afro-American scholars on several of the mooted subjects pertaining to the race.

We owe a debt of lasting gratitude to many of our friends who have so generously furnished us valuable assistance in the collection ofdatafor this volume, among whom we may mention W. B. Rust and T. B. Mears as among the most enthusiastic.

Believing that there is a genuine need for such a work as we have produced, we offer it to our colored friends and their white friends, praying God's blessing upon it.

The Publishers.

AS IT NOW IS—HOME OF A FREEMAN. Residence of R. R. Church, Memphis, Tenn., the wealthiest colored man in the state; estimated at $250,000. AS IT NOW IS—HOME OF A FREEMAN. Residence of R. R. Church, Memphis, Tenn., the wealthiest colored man in the state; estimated at

$250,000.

CONTENTS.

The Need of New Ideas and1 New Aims for a New Era1 The Status of the Family—Th e Conditions of Labor—Highe r Plane of Morality.

Laying the Corner Stone The Tennessee Centennial Negro Building—History and Old Relics—Department of Ar ts—Mines and Minerals—De partment of Dentistry—The Woman's Board. Cotton States Industrial Expo sition The Need of the Hour Unity Negro Business Association

2 3 3 1 4 5 4 7 4 9 5 1 5

Negro Banks Negro Wealth by States Negro School-Teachers How to Teach Obedience Hints for Our Girls What Negro Women are Doin g What Race Newspapers Hav e Done Race Evils Two Cultured Races The New Colored Woman Have Courage The South Given the Prefere nce Mrs. Georgia Gordon Taylor ThreeGreatNegroes

5 3 5 4 5 5 5 7 5 9 6 1 6 2 6 2 6 7 6 9 7 2 7 4 7 5 7

ThreeGreatNegroes 6 Pointed Paragraphs from Rac7 e Newspapers9 8 Madam Sissiretta Jones 9

Miss Hallie Q. Brown Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis Indorsement—To Henrietta V inton Davis. Rich Thoughts From Great R ace Thinkers The Colored Physician in the South The First Colored Specialist Especial Company The Sphere of Woman The Mourning Preacher

9 1 9 5 9 8 1 1 3 1 1 8 1 1 9 1 2 1 1 2 4

Our Greatest Drawback The Race Problem Mother's Treasures Gen. Antonio Maceo

rrows Intemperance Race Name—What Shall It B e?

Married Life—Its Joys and So The Nation's Duty to the Negr

o The Negro as a Slave—The Negro as a Common Laborer —The Negro as a Soldier—T he Negro as a Citizen—The

1 2 7 1 2 8 1 4 6 1 4 9 1 5 7 1 6 0 1 6 7 1 7 6

Negro as a Southerner—The Negro in Politics. Facts for Colored People Dr. William Key Jim Key A Soul at Auction

1 8 5 1 9 5 1 9 6 1 9 9

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Hut of a Slave Home of a Freeman Dr. Alex Crummell, Washing ton, D. C. Prof. W. H. Council, Normal, Ala. Negro Building, Tennessee Centennial Richard Hill, Chief, Nashville, Tenn.

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