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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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p here ; be-neath all this is a carefullythought-out plan, accordingto which the exhibitors havetried to show : (a) The history of theAmerican Negro. (b) His present condition. (c) His education. (d) His literature.The history of the Negro is illustrated by charts and photographs ; there is, for instance,a series of striking models of the progress of thecolored people, beginning with tlie homelessfreed man and ending with the modern bricksclioolhouse and its teachers. There are chartsof the increase of Negro population, the routesof the African slave-trade, the progress of eman-cipation, and the decreasing illiteracy. ■ Thereare pictures of the old cabins, and, in tlireegreat manuscript vohunes, the complete blackcode of Georgia, from colonial times to the endof the nineteenth century. Not the least inter-esting contribution to history is the case givento Negro medal-of-honor men in the army andnavy—from tlie man who ^seized the colorsafter two color-bearers had been shot down and
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EXHIBIT OF AMERICAN NEGROES AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION, bore them nobly through the fight to the blackmen in the Spanish War who voluntarily wentashore in the face of the enemy and aided in therescue of tlieir wounded comrades. It was aMassachusetts lawyer who replied to the Patent-Office inquiry, I never knew a negro to inventanything but lies ; and yet here is a record of350 patents granted to black men since 1834. The bulk of tlie exhibit, is naturally, an at-tempt to picture present conditions. Thirty-twocharts, 500 photographs, and numerous mapsand plans form the basis of this exhibit. Thecharts are m two sets, one illustrating conditionsin the entire United States and the other con-ditions in the typical State of Georgia. At aglance one can see the successive steps by wdiichthe 220,000 negroes of 1750 had increased to THE AMERICAN NEGRO AT PARIS. 577 7,500,000 in 1890 ; their distribution through-out the different States ; a comparison of tlxesize of the Negro population with Europ

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