TABLE OF CONTENTS.


INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER I.--SKETCH OF SOCIAL HISTORY.

The Importation of the Africans. Character of the Colored Population
in 1860. Colored Population in British West Indian Possessions. Free
Colored People of the South. Free Colored People of the North. Notes.
21

CHAPTER II.--THE AMERICAN NEGRO AND THE MILITARY SPIRIT.

Early Literature of Negro Soldiers. Negro Soldiers in the War of the
Revolution. The War of 1812. Negro Insurrections. Negro Troops in the
Civil War. Notes. 57

CHAPTER III.--THE BLACK REGULARS OF THE ARMY OF INVASION IN THE
SPANISH WAR.

Organization of Negro Regiments in the Regular Army. First Movement in
the War. Chickamauga and Tampa. Notes. 84

CHAPTER IV.--BRIEF SKETCH OF SPANISH HISTORY. 107

CHAPTER V.--PASSAGE, LANDING, AND FIRST BATTLE IN CUBA.