Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — BORN IN SLAVERY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BORN IN SLAVERY.

The President of the National Negro Demcratic League. C. H. J. Taylor is President of the National Negro Democratic League, which held its annual meeting at In-

dianapolis recently. Twenty states were represented in the meeting. C. H. J. Taylor, of Washington, was re-elected President of the League. Mr. Taylor was born in slavery at Marion, Ala, :-8 'years ago, got his education in the public schools and “picked up” the law, but he did it so th on oughly that he was

admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. In I*B2 he went west and held some public offices in Indiana and Missouri. President Clevela d s-ent him to Liberia as Minister resident and Consul General, but he did not like Africa and returned to the United Mates in a few months. He is a Democrat and hit home is at Kansas City, where, in addition to hie activity in politics and law, he owns and edits a weekly paper, the American Citi .en.

C. H. J. TAYLOR.