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The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.

The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.

A profusely illustrated work offering an uplifting and positive perspective of blacks in early 20th-century America


Profusely illustrated with half-tones from original photographs.  Both authors were born into American slavery.

Daniel Webster Davis (1862–1913), Richmond, Virginia teacher, poet, lecturer, pastor. “In 1902 and again in 1904 Davis taught a special course on “Negro Ideals” at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute’s summer school for teachers. It also included African American history, and he probably drew on that material in writing The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States (1908), inspired by and illustrating the exhibitions at the Negro Building of the 1907 Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition.”¹ 

Co-author Giles B. Jackson (1853–1924), Richmond attorney, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, newspaper publisher; he “promoted his idea of a Negro Building that would be home to exhibitions by and about African Americans. He organized the Negro Development and Exposition Company of the United States of America (NDEC), which oversaw construction from its headquarters in Richmond.” An estimated three quarter of a million visitors went through the Negro Building exhibition.²

The authors write extensively of African-American slavery; black soldiers in numerous American wars; of the education, commerce, religion, inventiveness, etc. of black Americans; of blacks in Virginia, of “Negro Womanhood;” of blacks as artists, authors, poets, of the construction, exhibitions, and awards given within the Negro Building at the Jamestown Exposition.


Description: The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.

Richmond: Virginia Press (1908). 400pp. First edition. Illustrated. Octavo, brick cloth with general soiling; cloth tightly-wrinkled near heel of spine; dampstain to endpapers; else-wise content and illustrated matter in very good condition, binding tight.

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Work, p490. Notes. 1 and 2. Encyclopedia of Virginia accessed online.


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