{"id":2533,"date":"2021-10-22T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2021-10-22T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:29:00","slug":"50-freebie-friday-historian-carter-g-woodsons-report-on-free-negroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/50-freebie-friday-historian-carter-g-woodsons-report-on-free-negroes\/","title":{"rendered":"#50 Freebie Friday: Historian Carter G. Woodson&#8217;s report on Free Negroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1925, Historian, Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/scholar\/carter-g-woodson\">Carter G. Woodson <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanancestors.org\/databases\/united-states-1830-census-free-negro-heads-of-families\/about?filterQuery=location:United%20States~page:2~size:100\">published a report that he stated was expensive to publish and difficult to compile.<\/a> Yet, he did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The aim of this report, like that on Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the<br>United States in 1830, is to promote the further study of a neglected aspect<br>of our history. As stated elsewhere, most of these free Negroes &#8220;have<br>been forgotten, for persons supposedly well-informed in history are surprised to learn today that about a half million, almost one-seventh of the<br>Negroes of this country, were free prior to the emancipation in 1865. It is<br>hardly believed that a considerable number of Negroes were owners of<br>slaves themselves, and in some cases controlled large plantations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the second Black man to receive a degree from Harvard University, he also became a dean in the school. He was a journalist and well published author, including the historic, standalone read,   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mis-Education-Negro-Carter-Godwin-Woodson\/dp\/1680920685\/ref=asc_df_1680920685?tag=bingshoppinga-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=80745439781940&amp;hvnetw=o&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvbmt=be&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=&amp;hvtargid=pla-4584345016268117&amp;psc=1\">The Mis-education of the Negro.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the report by clicking o<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanancestors.org\/databases\/united-states-1830-census-free-negro-heads-of-families\/about?filterQuery=location:United%20States~page:2~size:100\">n the link and downloading the 50+ page document<\/a> derived from the 1830 U.S. Census. You may find your ancestors in the records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy your Freebie Friday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1925, Historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson published a report that he stated was expensive to publish and difficult to compile. Yet, he did it. &#8220;The aim of this report, like that on Free Negro Owners of Slaves in theUnited States in 1830, is to promote the further study of a neglected aspectof our history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[392,444,595,613,664],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-historal","tag-carter-g-woodson","tag-dean","tag-harvard-university","tag-historian","tag-journalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}