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intellect, by A. Crummell. 1898. no. 4. A comparative study of the 

 negro problem, by C. C. Cook. 1899. no. 5. How the black St. Domingo 

 legion saved the patriot army in the siege of Savannah, 1779, by T. G. 

 Steward. 1899. no. 6. The disfranchisement of the negro, by J. L. Love. 

 1899. no. 7. Right on the scaffold, or the martyrs of 1822, by A. H. 

 Grimke. 1901. no. 8. The educated negro and his mission, by W. S. 

 Scarborough. 1903. no. 9. The early negro convention movement, by 

 J. W. Cromwell. 1904. no. 10. The defects of the negro church, by O. 

 Faduma. 1904. no. II. The negro and the elective franchise. A series 

 of papers and a sermon. 1905. 

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