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Floyd's flowers : or, Duty and beauty for colored children, being one hundred short stories gleaned from the storehouse of human knowledge and experience ... / by Silas X. Floyd ; illustrated by John Henry Adams.
1905
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- Related Name
- Adams, John Henry
- Language
- English
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Descriptive Information
- Title
- Floyd's flowers : or, Duty and beauty for colored children, being one hundred short stories gleaned from the storehouse of human knowledge and experience ... / by Silas X. Floyd ; illustrated by John Henry Adams.
- Call Number
- Eng 20 61637
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcjs956w61f
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1905
- Format
- Book
- Extent
- 326 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., photo. ; 21 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- p. 321-322: 'Lynchings are on the increase. Not only our men but our women are being burned at the stake. What shall we do? there are those of us who say that we must strike back But I tell you plainly that we cannot afford to do that. The white people.
- cont'd: 'have all the courts, all the railroads, all the newspapers, all the telegraph wires, all the arms AND ammunitionBut there is a higher reason than that. We cannot afford to do wrong. We cannot afford to lose our decency, our self respect, our.
- cont'd: 'characterI would rather be wronged than do wrongand no race is superior to the race it tramples upon.'.
- One of the first books written by a black specifically to educate American black children.
- Binding Note
- pub. pictorial green cloth stamped in red and black.
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- File Count
- 338
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7fbd820e-a433-4f40-a5f5-d3e65b93f986/manifest