k at Atlanta, Nashville, and Chicago, emphasizing
the last mentioned as the place of his most successful labor.
The historian will find this work valuable in that it illuminates one
of the most interesting periods of Negro church history. It is not
only a sketch of one distinguished churchman but a narrative
presenting an important chapter of the story of the Baptists by
relating the many incidents connected with the leading churchmen and
ecclesiastical organizations interested in the uplift of the Negro
since the Civil War. This narrative, moreover, shows how the Negro
minister, in keeping with the exigencies of the time, often had to be
drawn into politics in self defense and that in the case of unselfish
service like that of Dr. Fisher, he may come out of the controversy
untarnished.
_History of the United States. Vol. V._ By EDWARD CHANNING. The
Macmillan Company, New York City. Pp. 615.
This is the most recent volume of Professor Channing's eight volume
History of the United States from the very beginning of our history to
the present time. This particular volume covers the years from 1815 to
1848 and is entitled "The Period of Transition." It is written in
keeping with the standard of thoroughness characteristic of the author
and is made further informing by the use of ten valuable maps
illustrating important facts in American History.
In this volume the author engages the attention of the reader with an
account of the wonderful century in which he writes. He then discusses
the westward movement of the population, urban migration, the rise of
labor unions, giving more attention to economic matters than his
predecessors have been accustomed to do in the treatment of this
period. A study of the documentary history of the United States has
convinced the author that these important factors in the making of
this country have been neglected. His treatment, therefore, is a
change in the point of view in American historical writing.
This volume does not show the usual interest in slavery and abolition.
Only one chapter of this large work is devoted primarily to the
plantation life and abolitionism. The author discusses the lot of the
slave, accounting for his tendency to escape from bondage, the traffic
in human flesh, the free people of color, the colonization movement in
the South, and abolition in the North. This chapter culminates in a
discussion of the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison, the agit
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