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Title: History of the colored race in America : containing also their ancient and modern life in Africa ... the origin and development of slavery in the Old World, and its introduction on the American continent : the slave trade : slavery ... : the Civil War, emancipation, education and advancement of the colored race ...
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Alexander, William T
Subjects: Blacks African Americans Slavery
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Palmetto Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Streets, in the centre of the most fashionable quarter of thecity, is one of the handsomest educational buildings in theSouth, occupying an entire square of ground. The College opened with 400 colored youth in attendance.The opening ceremonies showed a mingling of whites andblacks, such as is seldom seen there. The principal addresswas delivered by Dr. B. M. Palmer, of the First PresbyterianChurch, the most ardent ecclesiastical supporter of slavery inante-bellum times, while Governor McEnery, ex-GovernorPinchback, and others, spoke. The four Universities in New Orleans have an aggregateattendance of over two thousand students. The buildings ofthese high grade institutions are handsome structures. Afour-story brick building, belonging to New Orleans Uni-versity, has recently been completed. The property belongingto Leland University is rated at $125,000. The endowmentsamount to $95,000, which place the institution upon a solidbasis. Straight University is well equipped for University
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ED UCA TIONA L PR 0 GRESS. 513 work, and has a large enrolment. The industrial system hasrecently received an added impetus in these institutions, andeach year sees it more thoroughly established and perfected. The Primary schools in New Orleans have been insufficientand defective. This, as we have seen, the Educational Clubis endeavoring to correct, and no doubt ample quarters willsoon be provided for them. The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, at Nashville,have made a name for themselves and their University on twoContinents, and by seven years of almost continuous labor,from the proceeds of their concerts in this country and inEurope, succeeded in purchasing the present site of the Uni-versity, and built Jubilee Hall, to which, in 1876, the Uni-versity proper was transferred. It is an elegant and commo-dious structure, five stories, and situated upon one of the mostbeautiful and commanding locations about Nashville. GeneralClinton B. Fisk, for whom the University is named, was fo

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