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As the public has not as yet paid very much
attention to Negro History, and has not seen a volume
dealing primarily with the migration of the race in America,
one could hardly expect that there has been compiled a
bibliography in this special field. With the exception of
what appears in Still's and Siebert's works on the
"Underground Railroad" and the records of the meetings of
the Quakers promoting this movement, there is little helpful
material to be found in single volumes bearing on the
antebellum period. Since the Civil War, however, more has
been said and written concerning the movements of the Negro
population. E.H. Botume's "First Days Among the Contrabands"
and John Eaton's "Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen" cover
very well the period of rebellion. This is supplemented by
J.C. Knowlton's "Contrabands" in the "University Quarterly",
Volume XXI, page 307, and by Edward L. Pierce's "The
Freedmen at Port Royal" in the "Atlantic Monthly", Volume
XII, page 291. The exodus of 1879 is treated by J.B. Runnion
in the "Atlantic Monthly", Volume XLIV, page 222; by
Frederick Douglass and Richard T. Greener in the "American
Journal of Social Science", Volume XI, page 1; by F.R.
Guernsey in the "International Review", Volume VII, page
373; by E.L. Godkin in the "Nation", Volume XXVIII, pages
242 and 386; and by J.C. Hartzell in the "Methodist
Quarterly", Volume XXXIX, page 722. The second volume of
George W. Williams's "History of the Negro Race" also
contains a short chapter on the exodus of 1879. In Volume
XVIII, page 370, of "Public Opinion" there is a discussion
of "Negro Emigration and Deportation" as advocated by Bishop
H.M. Turner and Senator Morgan of Alabama during the
nineties. Professor William O. Scroggs of Louisiana
University has in the "Journal of Political Economy", Volume
XXV, page 1034, an article entitled "Interstate Migration of
Negro Population". Mr. Epstein has published a helpful
pamphlet, "The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh". Most of the
material for this work, however, was collected from the
various sources mentioned below.
