MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

As you honor the memory of Martin Luther King this weekend,  please consider a visit to the Bullis Room.

Why?  There are no books in the collection written by or about Dr. King. However, there are over a dozen Bullis books that address the slavery issue as well as the lives of our country's great emancipators and liberators who came before Martin Luther King, Jr.

Therefore, in honor of Dr. King and observance of next month's Black History month, we will highlight these books for your reference -- and in hopes that you'll want to stop by the Bullis Room to study them further.

For this post, we chose the book:

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880.

Negroes as slaves, as soldiers, and as citizens;

together with a preliminary consideration of the unity

of the human family, an historical sketch of Africa, and

an account of the Negro governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

By George Washington Williams (1849-1891)

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons New York, 1883

The author, George Washington Williams, was "an American Civil War veteran, minister, politician, lawyer, journalist and a groundbreaking historian of African-American history."   His varied life experiences prepared and qualified him to write this book,  "... the first overall history of African Americans, showing their participation and contributions from the earliest days of the colonies." (Wikipedia, "George Washington Williams") 

Some of the other books we will highlight in the next six weeks are: The Galley Slave; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade Ancient and Modern; The Yankee Slave Driver: Or, The Black andWhite Rivals; The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation; and, The Future of the African Race in the United States.

Please "tune in" for more details.

PS: The Wikipedia article also mentions that George Washington Williams