The African As A Tradesman and Mechanic. Address of Bishop H.M. Turner Before the African Congress at the World's Fair in Chicago, August 15, 1893
N.P. [1893]. Octavo, self-wrappers, 8 pp. A speech by Henry McNeal Turner, a prominent bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who served as the first African American chaplain in the United States Colored Troops and was active in the Georgia Republican Party. In this speech, given before the African Congress at the Chicago World's Fair, Turner argues that members of the "Black Race"--both Africans and African Americans--had "all the intellectual and moral genius" to work as skilled tradesmen, mechanics, engineers, writers, and mathematicians. He cites the examples of many skilled African American workers in the South (mainly Georgia), both enslaved and free. Chip to upper corner of first leaf, which is nearly detached, light foxing, two punch holes. Item #13566
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