Floyd, Silas X. Floyd's Rowers or Duty and Beauty for Children. Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience. Simple Amusing Elevating. Portrait frontispiece of the author and illustrator, copious

Floyd, Silas X. Floyd's Rowers or Duty and Beauty for Children. Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience. Simple Amusing Elevating. Portrait frontispiece of the author and illustrator, copious drawings throughout. 8vo, pictorial green cloth, recased; covers and spine a bit faded, but still legible and attractive. Rubber-stamp of the Hudgins Publishing Co., Atlanta., Ga. at the foot of the title page. Atlanta, Ga.: Hertel, Jenkins Publishing Co., 1905 E350-500 First Edition of one of the first books written by African-Americans specifically for the use of educating African-American children. Along with the usual moral and scriptural lessons are a number of short biographies of famous African-Americans such as Benjamin Banneker, "Blind Tom' Bethune, and Frederick Douglass. Work, page 463; Blockson Collection 8762