Notes

1.      Quoted in speech of Charles Sumner, in the United States Senate, December 20, 1865, from “a private letter which I have received from a government officer.” Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 93, Column 2.

2.      Nevin, American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers, p. 209.

3.      Trollope, Frances, Domestic Manners of the Americans, p. 10.

4.      An Appeal of a Colored Man to His Fellow-Citizens of a Fairer Hue, in the United States, 1877, pp. 33, 34.

5.      Goodell, American Slave Code, p. 111.

6.      Brewster, Sketches of Southern Mystery, Treason and Murder, pp. 48, 51.

7.      Bancroft, Slave-Trading in the Old South, p. 199.

8.      Mazyck, George Washington and the Negro, p. 13.

9.      Bancroft, Slave-Trading in the Old South, p. 381.

10.    Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, pp. 183-184.

11.    Studies in Southern History and Politics, footnote, pp. 329, 346.

12.    Ficklen, History of Reconstruction in Louisiana, p. 12.

13.    Ficklen, Reconstruction in Louisiana, p. 15.

14.    Ficklen, Reconstruction in Louisiana, p. 27.

15.    New Orleans Tribune, February 15, 1865.

16.    Stewart, The Reward of Patriotism, pp. 41-43.

17.    Compare Du Bois, Suppression of Slave-Trade, Chapter XI.

18.    Woodson, Negro Orators and Their Orations, p. 224.