Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.

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Wm. Wells Brown
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THE

RISING SON;

OR,

THE ANTECEDENTS AND ADVANCEMENT
OF THE COLORED RACE.

BY

WM. WELLS BROWN, M. D.

AUTHOR OF “SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE ABROAD,” “THE
BLACK MAN,” “THE NEGRO IN THE REBELLION,”
“CLOTELLE,” ETC.

Thirteenth Thousand.

BOSTON:
A. G. BROWN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
By A. G. BROWN
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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PREFACE.

After availing himself of all the reliable information obtainable, theauthor is compelled to acknowledge the scantiness of materials for ahistory of the African race. He has throughout endeavored to give afaithful account of the people and their customs, without concealingtheir faults.

Several of the biographical sketches are necessarily brief, owing tothe difficulty in getting correct information in regard to the subjectstreated upon. Some have been omitted on account of the same cause.

WM. WELLS BROWN.

Cambridgeport, Mass.

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Publishers’ Note to the 13th Edition.

Few works written upon the colored race have equaled in circulation“The Rising Son.”

In the past two years the sales have more than doubled in the SouthernStates, and the demand for the book is greatly on the increase. Twelvethousand copies have already been sold; and if this can be taken as anindex to the future, we may look forward with hope that the coloredcitizens are beginning to appreciate their own authors.

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WELCOME TO “THE RISING SON.”

BY ELIJAH W. SMITH.

Come forth, historian of our race,
And with the pen of Truth
Bring to our claim to Manhood’s rights,
The strength of written proof;
Draw back the curtain of the past,
And lift the ages’ pall,
That we may view the portraits grand
That hang on History’s wall!
Tell of a race whose onward tide
Was often swelled with tears;
In whose hearts bondage has not quenched
The fire of former years
When Hannibal’s resistless hosts
Wrought his imperial will,
And brave Toussaint to freedom called,
From Hayti’s vine-clad hill.
Write when, in these, our later days,
Earth’s noble ones are named,
We have a roll of honor, too,
Of which we’re not ashamed;
If, for the errors
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