[Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Most notably, in Issue No. 2, April, 1923, spelling errors found in Paul Cuffe's own writings (e.g., travel journals, letters, will, etc.) are left as published. Text that has been changed is noted at the end of this ebook.] THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY CARTER G. WOODSON EDITOR VOLUME VIII 1923 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY, INC. LANCASTER, PA., AND WASHINGTON, D. C. 1923 LANCASTER PRESS, INC. LANCASTER, PA. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII NO. 1. JANUARY, 1923 L. P. JACKSON: _The Educational Efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau and Freedmen's Aid Societies in South Carolina, 1862-1872_ 1 G. R. WILSON: _The Religion of the American Negro Slave: His Attitude toward Life and Death_ 41 G. SMITH WORMLEY: _Prudence Crandall_ 72 DOCUMENTS: 81 _Extracts from Newspapers and Magazines._ _Anna Murray-Douglass--My Mother as I Recall Her._ _Frederick Douglass in Ireland._ BOOK REVIEWS: 108 BRAGG'S _The History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church_; HAYNES'S _The Trend of the Races_; HAMMOND'S _In the Vanguard of a Race_; The Chicago Commission on Race Relations, _The Negro in Chicago_. NOTES: 115 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY 116 NO. 2. APRIL, 1923 J. W. BELL: _The Teaching of Negro History_ 123 PAUL W. L. JONES: _Negro Biography_ 128 GEORGE W. BROWN: _Haiti and the United States_ 134 H. N. SHERWOOD: _Paul Cuffe_ 153 DOCUMENTS: 230 _The Will of Paul Cuffe._ BOOK REVIEWS: 233 WIENER'S _Africa and the Discovery of America_; DETWEILER'S _The Negro Press in the United States_; MCGREGOR'S _The Disruption of Virginia_; JOHNSTON'S _A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages_. NOTES: 243 NO. 3. JULY, 1923