THE JOURNAL NEGRO HISTORY FOUNDED BY CARTER G. WOODSON, JANUARY 1, 1916 W. AUGUSTUS LOW, EDITOR VOLUME LVII, No. 2 APRIL, 1972 CONTENTS ABBY L. GILBERT: The Comptroller of the Currency and the Freedman's Saving Bank. FRANK A. CASSELL: Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812. MARTHA S. PUTNEY: Black Merchant Seamen of Newport, 1803-1865: A Case Study in Foreign Commerce. JOAN R. SHERMAN: James Monroe Whitfield, Poet and Emigra-tionist: A Voice of Protest and Despair. GEORGE R. LAMPLUGH: The Image of the Negro in Popular Magazine Fiction, 1875-1900... JAMES EARL MASSEY: Bibliographical Essay: Howard Thurman and Rufus M. Jones, Two Mystics. BOOK REVIEWS... Mays, Born to Rebel by Richard Bardolph; Fuller, Prudence Crandall: An Incident of Racism in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut by Otey M. Scruggs; Munden, Feature Films, 1921-1930 by Thomas R. Cripps; Uya, From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915 by D. W. Bishop; Grubbs, from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal by ester C. Lamon: Wirt Politics of Southern Equality by Neil R. McMillen: Porter, Early Negro Writing: 1760-1837 by Thomas J. Davis; Nason anc Russell, The Life and Public Services of Henry Wilson, Late Vice-President of the United States and McKay, Henry Wilson, Practical Radical: Portrait of a Politician by James C. Mohr; Davis, If They Come in The Morning by Herbert B. Rogers. DOCUMENTS. 125 144 156 169 177 190 196 211 Letters of Phillis Wheatley and Susanna Wheatley By SARA DUNLAP JACKSON NOTES 216 1912 by THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY NEGRO LIFE Second class postage paid in Washington, BE AND HISTORY, INC.