Cleveland, Ohio: Nevins' Steam Printing House, 1866.
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Softcover. First edition. 24mo. 48pp. Printed wrappers. A fine copy. Contains a number of essays, including "What is Man?," "Union is Our Strength," "A Refutation of Erroneous Doctrines Concerning the Colored Man" (regarding recent Supreme Court rulings on the welfare of freedmen), and others. "A Self-Educated Colored Youth" was John Paterson Green, as revealed in his autobiography, *Fact Stranger Than Fiction*, published in 1920, by the Riehl Printing Company. Green was an African-American lawyer, businessman, and politician born free in South Carolina before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the integrated Cleveland Central Catholic High School, graduating as its valedictorian. He earned a law degree from Ohio State and Union Law College in 1870 and served as a judge in Cuyahoga County for many years before being elected to both the Ohio State Assembly and Senate. Later he was named the U.S. Postal Stamp Agent in Washington DC for his work on the 1896 William McKinley Presidential campaign. This pamphlet was published while he was still in high school in an effort to help his family. He is also the author of *Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and Kuklux Outrages of the Carolinas* (1880) and the aforesaid autobiography. Rare. Not in *Blockson* or *Work. *OCLC* locates eight copies.
Item #499618
