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Frederic Bancroft - Historian
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FREDERIC BANCROFT Historian By Jacob E. Cooke WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALLAN NEVINS AND THREE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS ON THE COLONIZATION OF AMERICAN NEGROES FROM 1801 TO 1865 BY FREDERIC BANCROFT NORMAN UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 57-5952 Copyright 1957 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Publishing Division of the University. Composed and printed at Norman, Oklahoma, U. S. A., by the University of Oklahoma Press. First edition. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank the staff of the Special Collections Library at Colum bia University for their co-operation and assistance, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Thomas who carefully read and criticized a part of the manuscript, Harold C. Syrett, who suggested ideas incorporated in Chapter II, and Allan Nevins, who inspired the work, encouraged its completion, arranged its publication, and gave it the benefit of his historical knowledge and writing skill. JACOB E. COOKE NEW YORK CITY JANUARY 10, 1957 CONTENTS Page FREDERIC BANCROFT HISTORIAN Acknowledgments v Introduction, by Allan Nevins xi Chapter I. The Historical Apprenticeship 3 Chapter II. The Gentleman Scholar 33 Chapter III. The Company of Historians 69 Chapter IV. The Historian Turned Financier 103 Chapter V. Manchester Liberal and Philanthropist 126 THE COLONIZATION OF AMERICAN NEGROES, 1801-1865 By Frederic Bancroft Introduction., by Jacob E. Cooke 145 Chapter I. The Early Antislavery Movement and African Colonization 147 Chapter II. Schemes to Colonize Negroes in Central America 192 Chapter III. The He a Vache Experiment in Colonization 228 Bibliography The Bancroft Essays 259 Bibliography for Frederic Bancroft Historian 2,64 Index vn ILLUSTRATIONSFacing page Carl Schurz 18 Frederic Bancroft with Grover Cleveland and others 82 Edgar A. Bancroft 114 Frederic Bancroft 162 IX INTRODUCTION By Allan Neuins This volume gives us a perceptive study of Frederic Bancrofts mind and character, founded on a thorough exploration of the facts of his life and a discriminating use of his writings, published and unpublished. The objective temper of the book, its mingling of critical and appreciative elements, and its narrative interest would much have pleased Bancroft himself, who followed care fully the significant new works of history and biography. Feeling that authors seldom got the appreciation they merit, he would say to friends You agree that so-and-so has written a distin guished book. Well, send him a letter about it. He should be told what we think. I recall that he thus singled out M. A. DeWolf e Howes volume on Moorfield Storey called Portrait of an Independent, C. V. Easums The Americanization of Carl Schurz, and Tyler Dennetts story of the advance of John Hay from mere litterateur to statesman. Mr. Cookes incisive volume may go on the same shelf with these studies of cultivated, honest minded liberals of the old school. No record, however careful and penetrating, can quite do justice to Bancrofts warmth of spirit, intellectual enthusiasm, and many generosities of thought and act, for no transmissible notation of them remains. He united in unusual degree a passion for things of the mind with a Johnsonian delight in social inter course. Loving the pursuit of truth, he was an arduous investi gator too arduous, indeed, for never finding an end to truth he never finished what was to be his chief historical work. But though a disciplinedand severe investigator, toiling long days at his desk, he had two chief pleasures a brisk walk with a con genial friend, or a dinner with a group, discussing both the great forces and actors of the American past, and the intricacies of current affairs. He was in his element in his bachelor home, almost within a stones throw of the Capitol, or at a table-window XI Frederic Bancroft Historian in the Metropolitan Club, in prandial and postprandial dis course... |
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