Joseph E. Roy scrapbook
Scope and Contents
This 153-page scrapbook is devoted primarily to the career and professional interests of Joseph Edwin Roy. Joseph Roy served as chairman of the World's Congress on Africa at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and also as Western District Secretary for the American Missionary Association, and the scrapbook documents his career in these two capacities.
Materials reflecting Joseph Roy's role as chairman of the 1893 World's Congress on Africa consist entirely of newspaper clippings, some with hand script annotations, many regarding Frederick Douglass and Momolu Massaquoi. Articles by and about Bishop Henry McNeal Turner's theory of a "Black Adam" are also included, as well as several articles with information about African American colleges and universities. Other articles include clippings regarding missionary work and daily life in Africa. Clippings about the World's Congress on Africa are primarily from The Daily Inter Ocean, the Chicago Tribune, and The African News, the latter of which, as described on its masthead, is "A Comprehensive Digest of the Principal Speeches Delivered and Papers read at its Sessions in Chicago last Month." The African News, which only exists here in segments, is ostensibly the official publication of the World's Congress on Africa.
The latter portion of the scrapbook chronicles Roy's work as Western District Secretary with the American Missionary Association (AMA), and this includes both articles and carbon copies of correspondence. This latter portion primarily consists of articles from Congregationalist publications throughout the western United States, including The Pilot Supplement, The Christian Way, The Pilgrim, The Seven Societies, and the English- and Dakota-language newspaper The Word Carrier (Iapi Oaye). These materials largely reflect the work of the Roy and the AMA with Native American and American Chinese missions. Articles also regard Frederick Douglass' address at the 1895 annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. Items of note include a July 1894 letter to President Grover Cleveland by Roy and other Congregationalist leaders, which applauds President Cleveland's "wisdom and patriotic tenacity in the matter of maintaining the sovereignty of our Nation in this time of disloyal uprising."
Dates
- created: 1891-1896
- Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Creator
- Roy, J. E. (Joseph Edwin), 1827-1908 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright to these papers has not been assigned to the Amistad Research Center. It is the responsibility of an author to secure permission for publication from the holder of the copyright to any material contained in this collection.
Extent
1.00 items
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
American Missionary Association
Method of Acquisition
Gift
Appraisal Information
The Joseph E. Roy scrapbook reflects Roy's work as chairman of the World's Congress on Africa at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and as Western District Secretary for the American Missionary Association.
Processing Information
Collection processed in March 2012.
Subject
- American Missionary Association (Organization)
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) (Organization)
- Title
- Joseph E. Roy scrapbook
- Author
- Andrew Salinas
- Date
- 03/27/2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
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