The Works of William Sanders Scarborough Black Classicist and Race Leader

by Scarborough, William Sanders; Ronnick, Michele

• ISBN13: 9780195309621
• ISBN10: 0195309626
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The first professional classicist of African American descent, William Sanders Scarborough rose from slavery to become president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. Excelling at Latin and Greek, he crossed the color line both socially and intellectually w

Author Biography

Michele Valerie Ronnick is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Greek and Latin at Wayne State University. A Latinist by training with a book on Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes, she has published widely in journals here and abroad and has won a number of professional awards for excellence in scholarship, teaching and service on regional and national levels. Ronnick's special interest in the Classical Tradition led her to open up a new subfield of reception studies, Classica Africana, a.k.a. black classicism, which examines the influence of classics upon the creative and professional lives of people of African descent. She is the editor of a critical edition of The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	xxiii
Military	1	(8)
The Negro as an Army Officer, Christian Register, August 18, 1898, pp. 933--934.	3	(2)
From Spade to Sword, Christian Register, February 23, 1899, pp. 207--208.	5	(4)
Speeches	9	(28)
Our Political Status, a speech delivered on April 29, 1884, at the Colored Men's Inter-state Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and printed at Xenia, Ohio, by Torchlight Job Rooms.	11	(9)
Why I Am a Republican, a speech delivered at the Lincoln Club of Columbus, Ohio, and printed in the Detroit Plaindealer, August 3, 1888.	20	(4)
The Party of Freedom and the Freedman---A Reciprocal Duty, a speech delivered on February 11, 1899, at the Lincoln Day Banquet, Dayton, Ohio, and printed in Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, edited by Alice Dunbar (New York: Bookery Publishing, 1914).	24	(5)
The Negro Graduate---His Mission, a commencement address printed in the Atlanta University Bulletin, June 1908.	29	(8)
Journalism	37	(10)
Journalism and Colored Journalists, People's Advocate, November 12, 1881.	39	(3)
Journalism and Colored Journalists, No. II, People's Advocate, November 26, 1881.	42	(2)
Journalism and Colored Journalists, No. III, People's Advocate, February 4, 1882.	44	(3)
Introductions to Books	47	(18)
Preface to William S. Scarborough, First Lessons in Greek (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1881), pp. iii--v.	49	(2)
Introduction to Wesley J. Gaines, African Methodism in the South, or Twenty-Five Years of Freedom (Atlanta: Franklin, 1890), pp. ix--xi.	51	(2)
Introduction to James Monroe Gregory, Frederick Douglass, the Orator (Springfield, Mass.: Willey, 1893), pp. 5--12.	53	(4)
Introduction to Benjamin Tucker Tanner, The Color of Solomon---What? (Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1895), pp. v--viii.	57	(3)
Introduction to J. M. Conner, Doctrines of Christs, or The Teachings of Jesus (Little Rock, Ark.: Printing Department of Shorter University, 1897), pp. viii--xiii.	60	(3)
Introduction to Horace Talbert, The Sons of Allen (Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Press, 1906), pp. vii--ix.	63	(2)
Book Reviews	65	(26)
Review of Theophilus Gould Steward's My First Four Years in the Itineracy of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in the Christian Recorder, December 13, 1877.	67	(3)
Review of Daniel Payne's A Treatise on Domestic Education, in the Christian Recorder, August 27, 1885.	70	(5)
Review of H. M. Turner's Genius and Theory of Methodist Polity, in the Christian Recorder, September 17, 1885.	75	(3)
Hale on the Art of Reading Latin, in Education 8 (November 1887): 198--202.	78	(4)
Review of Benjamin Tucker Tanner's Dispensations in the History of the Church, in the A.M.E. Church Review 16 (1900): 360--366.	82	(5)
Review of Booker T. Washington's The Future of the American Negro, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 16 (November 1900): 145--147.	87	(4)
Obituaries	91	(6)
Bishop Payne as an Educator, Christian Recorder, January 25, 1894.	93	(3)
Obituary of William Hayes Ward, Independent, September 11, 1916.	96	(1)
Biographies	97	(44)
Prof. Richard T. Greener: His Commendable Career and Claims to Recognition, Christian Recorder, February 9, 1882.	99	(2)
Hon. Frederick Douglass: One of the Most Distinguished and Honored Citizens on the American Continent, Cleveland Gazette, March 20, 1886.	101	(3)
Henry Ossian Tanner, Southern Workman 31 (December 1902): 661--670.	104	(6)
Alexandre Dumas, Southern Workman 32 (July 1903): 313--317.	110	(5)
Alexander Sergeivitch Pushkin, Part I, Southern Workman 33 (March 1904): 162--165.	115	(4)
Alexander Sergeivitch Pushkin, Part II, Southern Workman 33 (April 1904): 234--236.	119	(3)
Roosevelt: The Man, the Patriot, the Statesman, Voice of the Negro 1, no. 9 (1904): 391--393.	122	(3)
Daniel Alexander Payne, Southern Workman 33 (December 1904): 683--688.	125	(5)
The Poet Laureate of the Negro Race, A.M.E. Church Review 31 (1914): 135--143.	130	(7)
Warren G. Harding: A Brand New President with the Old-Fashioned Belief ``All Men Up and No Man Down,'' Competitor 3 (1921): 7--8.	137	(4)
Travel Narratives	141	(18)
Vacation Notes: The Cesnola Collection, Christian Recorder, August 29, 1878.	143	(2)
Summer Saunterings, No. II, Christian Recorder, September 9, 1886.	145	(4)
Summer Saunterings, No. III, Christian Recorder, September 16, 1886.	149	(3)
Summer Saunterings, No. IV, Christian Recorder, September 23, 1886.	152	(3)
Summer Saunterings, Concluded, Christian Recorder, October, 21, 1886.	155	(4)
Education in General	159	(26)
The Utility of Studying the Greek, part 1, Christian Recorder, April 12, 1883.	161	(3)
The Utility of Studying the Greek, part 2, Christian Recorder, August 2, 1883.	164	(3)
The True Aim of Education, Southern Teachers' Advocate 1, no. 2 (September 1905): 1--5.	167	(6)
Personal Influence: The President's Opening Address, Sodalian 8, no. 1 (October 1913): 1--6.	173	(5)
What Should Be the Standard of the University, College, Normal School, Teacher Training and Secondary Schools (Durham, N.C.: National Training School, 1916).	178	(7)
Education of Blacks	185	(48)
Echoes from the South, Christian Recorder, June 29, 1876.	187	(3)
Our Schools and Their Needs, Christian Recorder, March 23, 1882.	190	(3)
The New South and Hampton's Part in It, Southern Workman 25 (October 1896): 194--195.	193	(3)
The Negro and the Trades, Southern Workman 26 (February 1897): 26--27.	196	(3)
The American Negro Academy, Leslie's Weekly 22 (1897): 264.	199	(2)
The Educated Negro and Menial Pursuits, Forum 26 (December 1898): 434--440.	201	(7)
Booker T. Washington and His Work, Education 20 (January 1900): 270--276.	208	(5)
The Negro and Higher Learning, Forum 33 (1902): 349--355.	213	(6)
The Educated Negro and His Mission (Washington, D.C.: American Negro Academy, 1903), Occasional Paper no. 8, pp. 3--11.	219	(9)
The Relation of the Teacher to the Moral and Social Elevation of the Race, Hampton Institute Publications 8 (July 1904): 79--83.	228	(3)
Howard University's Semi-Centennial, Independent, March 19, 1917, p. 505.	231	(2)
Philology in General	233	(38)
The Negro Element in Fiction, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 21 (July 1890): xlii--xliv.	235	(4)
Function and Future of Foreign Languages in Africa, Methodist Review 76 (November--December 1894): 890--899.	239	(8)
Notes on the Function of Modern Languages in Africa, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 27 (July 1896): xlvi--xlviii.	247	(3)
Creole Folk-Tale: Compair Bouki and Compair Lapin, Southern Workman 25 (September 1896): 186.	250	(2)
Folklore and Ethnology: Old Saws, Southern Workman 25 (October 1896): 206.	252	(3)
Negro Folk-lore and Dialect, Arena 15 (January 1897): 186--192.	255	(6)
Iphigenia in Euripides and Racine, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 29 (July 1898): lviii--lx.	261	(2)
The Negro in Fiction as Portrayer and Portrayed, Southern Workman 28 (September 1899): 358--361.	263	(4)
Iphigenia in Euripides, Racine, and Goethe, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 32 (July 1901): xxxvii--xxxviii.	267	(4)
Classical Philology	271	(62)
The Theory and Function of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 15 (July 1884): vi.	273	(1)
On Fatalism in Homer and Virgil, A.M.E. Church Review 2 (1886): 132--138.	274	(8)
Grote on Thuc. vi. 17 (αvελπιστ&oι), summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 18 (July 1887): v--vi.	282	(1)
Ancipiti in Caesar, B. G. I. 26, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 18 (July 1887): xxxviii.	283	(1)
Xenophon or Andocides,---Which? Journal of Education 27 (May 17, 1888): 311.	284	(1)
Observations on the Fourth Eclogue of Vergil, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 19 (July 1888): xxxvi--xxxviii.	285	(2)
Xenophon, Andocides, Cebes,---Which? Journal of Education 28 (September 20, 1888): 223.	287	(2)
``Ancipiti'': Caesar's De Bello Gallico, Book I., Chapter XXVI., Line 1., Education 9 (December 1888): 263--268.	289	(5)
On the Accent and Meaning of Arbutus, Education 9 (February 1889): 396--398.	294	(3)
Observations on the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil, Education 10 (September 1889): 28--33.	297	(5)
Bellerophon's Letters, Iliad VI. 168 ff., summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 22 (July 1891): l--liii.	302	(3)
On Grote's Interpretation of `Aνελπιστ&oι, Education 12 (January 1892): 286--293.	305	(6)
Hunc Inventum Inveni (Plautus, Captivi, 442), summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 24 (July 1893): xvi--xix.	311	(4)
The Chronological Order of Plato's Writings, Education 14 (December 1893): 213--218.	315	(5)
Cena, δειπνoν, prandium, αρι&oν, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 25 (July 1894): xxiii--xxv.	320	(2)
Extracts from Thucydides with Brief Notes, VII. 7, 1; VII. 8, 2; VIII. 29, 2, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 30 (July 1899): vii--ix.	322	(3)
Brief Notes on Thucydides, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 32 (July 1901): lxxix.	325	(1)
Notes on the Meaning and Use of φιλων and ξενων in Demosthenes, De Corona, 46, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 33 (July 1902): xx.	326	(2)
Notes on Andocides and the Authorship of the Oration against Alcibiades, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 34 (July 1903): xli.	328	(1)
Notes on Thucydides, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 37 (January 1907): xxx--xxxi.	329	(2)
The Greeks and Suicide, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 38 (December 1907): xxii--xxiii.	331	(2)
Politics, Policy, and Prejudice	333	(152)
A Nationality, Christian Recorder, April 13, 1876.	335	(3)
The Exodus---A Suicidal Scheme---The Machinations of Disappointed Office Seekers, Christian Recorder, January 3, 1878.	338	(4)
The Civil Status of the Southern Negro, People's Advocate, September 11, 1880.	342	(2)
The Claims of the Colored Citizen upon the Republican Party, Christian Recorder, June 23, 1881.	344	(3)
Our Distinguished Visitors Ex-Senator and Mrs. Bruce, Christian Recorder, November 17, 1881.	347	(3)
Frederick Douglass: The Democratic Return to Power---Its Effect? A.M.E. Church Review 1 (January 1885): 215--216.	350	(2)
Ohio's Black Laws, Cleveland Gazette, February 14, 1885.	352	(1)
The Future of the Negro, Forum 7 (March 1889): 80--89.	353	(8)
Political Necessity of a Federal Election Law, Our Day 6 (July 1890): 25--33.	361	(8)
The Race Problem, Arena 2 (October 1890): 560--567.	369	(7)
The Negro Question from the Negro's Point of View, Arena 4 (July 1891): 219--222.	376	(4)
An Inside View of the Southern Convict Lease System, Indianapolis Freeman, December 7, 1891, p. 5.	380	(2)
Race Legislation for Railways, Our Day 9 (July 1892): 478--485.	382	(6)
As You Like It, Cleveland Gazette, October 1, 1892.	388	(3)
The Negro Problem: The African Ethnological Congress, Leslie's Weekly, September 28, 1893, p. 206.	391	(4)
The Negro's Part in a Presidential Nomination, Leslie's Weekly, July 30, 1896, pp. 67 and 71.	395	(2)
The Negro's Duty to Himself, Indianapolis Freeman, December 30, 1899.	397	(3)
Our New Possessions---An Open Door, Southern Workman 29 (July 1900): 422--427.	400	(5)
Lawlessness vs. Lawlessness, Arena 24 (1901): 478--483.	405	(4)
The Negro's Appeal to the Nation: A Plea for Justice, Howard's American Magazine, April 1901, pp. 378--381.	409	(4)
The Negro and Our New Possessions, Forum 31 (May 1901): 341--349.	413	(8)
The Negro as a Factor in Business, Southern Workman 30 (August 1901): 455--459.	421	(4)
What the Omen? Competitor 2 (1902): 6--7.	425	(3)
White vs. Black, Voice of the Negro 1, no. 1 (1904): 25--28.	428	(5)
The Moral of Race Conflict, Voice of the Negro 1, no. 3 (1904): 90--93.	433	(5)
The Negro and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Voice of the Negro 1, no. 8 (1904): 312--315.	438	(4)
The Negro's Duty in the Present Contest, Voice of the Negro 1, no. 11 (1904): 531--533.	442	(4)
The Emancipation of the Negro, Voice of the Negro 2, no. 2 (1905): 121--125.	446	(5)
Our Pagan Teachers, Voice of the Negro 2, no. 6 (1905): 404--406.	451	(3)
The Negro Criminal Class---How Best Reached, Part I, Voice of the Negro 2, no. 11 (1905): 803--804.	454	(3)
The Negro Criminal Class---How Best Reached, Part II, Voice of the Negro 2, no. 12 (1905): 867--869.	457	(3)
The Negro's Program for 1906, Voice of the Negro 3, no. 1 (1906): 47--49.	460	(3)
English Principle vs. American Prejudice, Voice of the Negro 3, no. 5 (1906): 347--349.	463	(4)
A Subsidized North, Voice of the Negro 4, no. 1 (1907): 31--34.	467	(6)
Race Integrity, Voice of the Negro 4, no. 4 (1907): 197--202.	473	(9)
An Appeal to Colored Voters, Cleveland Journal, October 19, 1907.	482	(1)
Race Riots and Their Remedy, Independent, August 18, 1919, p. 223.	483	(2)
Farming	485	(8)
Optimisms in Negro Farm Life, Opportunity, February 1926, pp. 65--67.	487	(6)
Index	493