Book/Printed Material Half a man; the status of the Negro in New York, Copy 2
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Image 1 of Copy 2- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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- Date: 1911
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- Date: 1911
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Image 5 of Copy 2- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 7 of Copy 2 HALF A MAN THE STATUS OF THE NEGRO IN NEW YORK V BY MARY WHITE OVINGTON WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. FRANZ BOAS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 8 of Copy 2 Copyright, 1911, by Longmans, Green, and Co. /I THE PI.IMl I ON PRESS [\V U o] NORWOOD MASS U S A C CI. A 2020- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
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Image 9 of Copy 2 TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER THEODORE TWEEDY OVINGTON I- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 11 of Copy 2 FOREWORD Miss Ovington s description of the status of the Negro in New York City is based on a most painstaking inquiry into his social and economic conditions, and brings out in...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 12 of Copy 2 viii FOREWORD the white race should possess greater ability than the Negro race. The anthropological argument is invari- ably met by the objection that the achieve- ments of the two races are...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 13 of Copy 2 I FOREWORD ix simple presentation of observations, like those given by Miss Ovington, may help us to overcome more quickly that self-centred attitude which can see progress only in the domination of...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 14 of Copy 2- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 15 of Copy 2 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Up feom Slavery 5 II Where the Negro Lives 31 III The Child of the Tenement 52 IV Earning a Living IVIanual Labor AND THE Trades 75 V...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 18 of Copy 2- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 19 of Copy 2 HALF A MAN INTRODUCTION Six years ago I met a young colored man, a college student recently returned from Germany where he had been engaged in graduate work. He was born, he...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 20 of Copy 2 4 INTRODUCTION grown in significance to me. I have endeav- ored to know the Hfe of the Negro as I know the hfe of the white American, and I have learned that...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 21 of Copy 2 CHAPTER I Up from Slavery The status of the Negro in New Amster- dam, a slave in a pioneer community, dif- fered fundamentally from his position today in New York. His history...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 22 of Copy 2 6 HALF A MAN market from among the cargo of a recently arrived slaver, with some suspicion and fear. Nor were their apprehensions en- tirely without reason. In 1712 some of the...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 23 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 7 kill all the white men and take control of the city. New York was aflame with fear, and evidence that at another time would have been rejected, was...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 24 of Copy 2 8 HALF A MAN liberty. Janvier in his Old New York thinks, that the alarm bred by the so- called Negro plot of 1741 was most effective in checking the growth of...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 25 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 9 hoped that New York might be a leader in emancipation. The state s initial measure for abolishing slavery was in 1785, when it prohibited the sale of slaves...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 26 of Copy 2 10 HALF A MAN one and eight-tenths per cent. It seems prob- able that the census of 1910 will show a large positive and a slight relative Negro increase. The relative decrease...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 27 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 11 The first state constitution, drafted in 1777, was without color discrimination, since it based the suffrage upon a property quali- fication requiring voters for governor and senators to...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 28 of Copy 2 n HALF A MAN not believe in universal white manhood suffrage, urged that colored men, natives of the country, should derive from its institu- tions the same privileges as white persons. The...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 29 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 13 of men of sense. John H. Hunt of New York City proclaimed that We want no masters, least of all no Negro masters. Negroes are aliens. And he...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 30 of Copy 2 14 HALF A MAN establishment of a public school system, the Manumission society, an association com- posed largely of Friends, though including in its membership John Jay, De Witt Clin- ton, and...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 31 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 15 beheld a white school, of the same age (of and under the age of fifteen), in which, with- out exception, there was more order and neatness of dress...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 32 of Copy 2 16 HALF A MAN very irregular, the severe winter weather often keeping children who lived at a dis- tance at home. A Brooklyn man tells me that, when a boy, he used...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 33 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 17 some numbers attended white schools in both Brooklyn and New York, and Negro parents continued in their quiet but persist- ent efforts against segregation. Then again, New York...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 34 of Copy 2 18 HALF A MAN them open to all children regardless of color. Occasionally a colored girl graduated from the normal college of the city, but if there was no vacancy for her...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 35 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 19 legislature passed a bill providing that no person should be refused admission or be excluded from any public school in the state on account of race or color....- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 36 of Copy 2 20 HALF A MAN from the white church. In 1796 about thirty Negroes, under the leadership of James Varick,^ withdrew from the John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and formed the first colored...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 37 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 21 Sunday morning service that led to an im- portant Negro advance in citizenship. In the middle of the last century the right of the Negro to ride in...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 38 of Copy 2 22 HALF A MAN nings mounted the platform, he told her that she must wait for the next car, which was reserved for her people. I have no people, Miss Jennings said....- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 39 of Copy 2 UP FROM SLAVERY 23 every one until a policeman was found who pushed the woman out, not, however, until she had taken the number of the car. She then made her way...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911
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Image 40 of Copy 2 24 HALF A MAN Negroes was very great. They had not only their own battles to wage, but there were the fugitives who were entering the city by the Underground Raih-oad, whom...- Contributor: Ovington, Mary White
- Date: 1911