Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries. HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO BY CHARLES H. FOWLER, M. D. PRESS OF THOMAS & EVANS, 604-608 Water Street, BALTIMORE. _1902._ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1902, by CHARLES H. FOWLER, M. D., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. —TABLE OF CONTENTS— · PREFACE. · INTRODUCTORY. · CHAPTER I. · CHAPTER II. · CHAPTER III. · CHAPTER IV. · CHAPTER V. · CHAPTER VI. · CHAPTER VII. · CHAPTER VIII. · CHAPTER IX. · CHAPTER X. · CHAPTER XI. · CHAPTER XII. · CHAPTER XIII. · CHAPTER XIV. · CHAPTER XV. · CHAPTER XVI. · CHAPTER XVII. · CHAPTER XVIII. · CHAPTER XIX. · CHAPTER XX. · CHAPTER XXI. · THE AMERICAN-SPANISH WAR—I. · THE AMERICAN-SPANISH WAR—II. · BLACKS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND IN 1812. · "NICK" BIDDLE. · COLOR IS NO BAR TO OFFICE. —*ILLUSTRATIONS*— Respectfully yours—Charles H. Fowler M. D. A. M. BEULAH JACKSON. THE ESCAPE. SCENES IN NEW ORLEANS. SCENES IN BUFFALO. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BATTLE OF MILLIKEN’S BEND. BATTLE OF PORT HUDSON. JOHN BROWN. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER. A SCENE ON THE JACKSON PLANTATION. SCENES AT NIAGARA FALLS. COTTON PICKING. A RELIC OF SLAVERY DAYS. MR. JACKSON. HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED. EMANCIPATION STATUE BOSTON, MASS. HAULING COTTON TO THE GIN. FIRST READING EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. DE SOTO DISCOVERING MISSISSIPPI RIVER. IN DANGER OF THE OVERSEER’S LASH. JAMES A. GARFIELD. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. CHAS. SUMNER. WM. LLOYD GARRISON. FRED’K DOUGLASS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. SOUTHERN CHIVALRY—ARGUMENT VERSUS CLUB’S. STATUE OF LIBERTY. GRANT’S TOMB. DICKENS’ OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. TOWER OF LONDON. GEN. ANTONIO MACEO. THE DEFENSE OF SANTIAGO. BATTLE OF SAN JUAN HILL. COLORED SOLDIERS AND MUSICIANS. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. THE BOSTON MASSACRE. THE GRAVE OF NICK BIDDLE. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. PREFACE. [Illustration: _Respectfully yours—Charles H. Fowler M. D. A. M._] For a number of years it has been on my mind to write a book regarding the principal events that have occurred to the colored race since the beginning of the agitation against slavery, going on from thence to the great Rebellion, passing through that war, and also dealing with all subjects of great importance that have arrested our attention under our glorious freedom.