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- Acvis, Capt., his opinion of John Brown, 225.
- Adams, C. F., advocates the education of Negroes, 158.
- Adams, John, first Colored teacher in the D. C., 183.
- Adams, John Quincy, remarks on the death of William Costin, 192.
- Adams, Rufus, opposes school for Colored children in Conn., 150.
- Aden, D., letter on the bravery of Negro troops, 348.
- Africa, imported slaves ordered to be returned to, 12;
- agents appointed by the United States for that purpose, 13;
- proposed colony of free Negroes on the coast, 51;
- a line of war steamers to be established, to suppress the slave-trade, promote commerce, and colonize the coast, 53-55;
- colonization of, by Negroes, opposed, 70;
- the "Amistad" captives returned to, 93-96;
- number of slaves imported from, 544.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church, origin, growth, organization, and influence, 135, 452;
- African School Association established, 157.
- Aggressive Anti-Slavery Party, the, 50.
- Alabama, formation of the territory of, the most cruel of slave States, 3;
- slave population, 1820, 22; 1830, 1840, 99; 1850, 100;
- education of Negroes prohibited, 148;
- recedes from the Union, 232;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institution for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Albany Atlas and Argus (The) denounces the Rev. Justin D. Fulton for his views on slavery, 243.
- Alexander, Francis A., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 372.
- Allegheny City, Pa., Avery College founded, 177.
- Allen, Rev. Richard, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 452;
- Alton, Ill., mob destroy printing-press, 51.
- Ambush, James Enoch, founds the Wesleyan Seminary, 194.
- American Anti-Slavery Society, organized, 43;
- American Colonization Society, organized, list of officers, 52;
- American Missionary Association establish the first school for freedmen, at Fortress Monroe, 393.
- "Amistad" captives, natives of Africa, sail from Havana on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," cruelly treated, take possession of the ship, alter her course for Africa, 93;
- Anderson, Rev. Duke William, Colored Baptist minister, birth, early life, and education, 476-478;
- Anderson, Ransom, testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 365.
- Andrew, Gov. John A., authorizes the raising of Negro regiments, 289.
- Andrew, William, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Anti-slavery, societies formed, 20;
- sentiment at the North, 22;
- agitation, 1825-1850, 31-36;
- speeches in the Legislature of Virginia, 33-35;
- methods, 37-60;
- antiquity of, sentiment, 38;
- newspapers established, 38, 39, 41;
- Garrison, leader of the, movement, 39;
- National Convention, number of societies in the United States, 1836, 44;
- Sumner's speech before the Whig party, 45;
- heterodox party, 48;
- economic party, 49;
- aggressive party, 50;
- colonization society, 51;
- American colonization society, 52;
- underground railroad organization, 58;
- literature, 59, 60;
- efforts of free Negroes, 61-81;
- New England, Society, dissolution of Negro societies, 79;
- convention of the women of America, 80;
- prejudice against admitting Negroes into white societies, 81;
- friends of, instruct the "Amistad" captives, 94;
- the cause benefited by their stay in the United States, 96;
- violent treatment of, orators, 97;
- opposed, 98;
- John C. Calhoun opposed to, 104.
- Appleton, John W. M., superintends the enlistment of Negro regiment in Mass., 289.
- Appomattox, Va., bravery of Negro troops at the battle of, 344.
- Arkansas, territory organized, 15;
- Asbury, Francis, member of the first American Methodist Conference, 446;
- and bishop of the Church, 468.
- Ashley, James M., opposes the return of fugitive slaves, 246.
- Ashum Institute, founded, list of trustees, 178.
- Attucks Guards, a Colored militia company, organized, 145.
- Auchmuty, Rev. Samuel, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Auld, Hugh, master of Frederick Douglass, 431, 432.
- Austin, James T., signs memorial against the increase of slavery, 16.
- Avery, Rev. Charles, founder of the Avery College, 177.
- Baily, Frederick, see Douglass, Frederick.
- Ball, Flamen, counsel for the Colored people in Cincinnati, 172.
- Baltimore, Md., anti-slavery newspaper published, 38;
- Bancroft, George, views on the Declaration of Independence, 32.
- Banks, Maj.-Gen. N. P., orders the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
- Baptist Church, Colored, organized, 135;
- Barclay, David, donates money to the Quakers, 174.
- Barclay, Rev. Henry, advocates the education of Negro slaves, 165.
- Bartram, Col. Nelson B., description of Colored regiment commanded by, 292.
- Bassett, Lieut.-Col. Chauncey J., commands the 1st La. regiment of Colored troops at the battle of Port Hudson, 320.
- Bassett, E. D., appointed U. S. minister to Hayti, 423.
- Beams, Charlotte, establishes a school for Colored children, 213.
- Beaufort, S. C., military savings bank for Negroes established, 403.
- Beauregard, Gen. G. T., urges passage of the bill for the execution of prisoners, 270.
- Bell, George, former slave, founds a Colored school, 182.
- Becraft, Maria, sketch of, 195, 196.
- Benezet, Anthony, establishes Colored school in Philadelphia, 1750, 172;
- Bennington, Vt., anti-slavery newspaper published, 39.
- Billing, Mary, establishes school for Colored children, 183.
- Birney, Maj.-Gen. David B., bravery of Negro troops under his command, refuses to march his troops in the rear of the whites, 344.
- Birney, James G., member of the heterodox and aggressive anti-slavery party, 48, 50;
- his newspaper destroyed by a mob, 51.
- Black Regiment, the, a poem by George H. Boker, 324.
- Blake, George, signs memorial against the increase of slavery, 16.
- Bleecker, John, mentioned, 166.
- Blunt, Maj.-Gen. James G., letter on the bravery of Negro troops, 346.
- Boardman, Richard, member of the first American Methodist Conference, 466.
- Boker, George H., The Black Regiment, a poem by, 324.
- Boiling, P. A., speech against slavery in the Legislature of Virginia, 34.
- Boon vs. Juliet, case of, mentioned, 120.
- Booth, Maj. L. F., in command of Fort Pillow, his death, 360;
- Gen. Forrest commends his bravery for the defence of the fort, 368.
- Border States, number of troops furnished by, 300.
- Boston, Mass., meeting in opposition to the increase of slavery, held in, 1819, 16;
- Boyd, Henry, sketch of, 138, 140.
- Boyd, Marshall William, see Taylor, Rev. Marshall M.
- Boyle, Brig.-Gen. Jeremiah T., orders the return of fugitive slaves, 245.
- Bradford, Major W. F., in command at Fort Pillow, surrenders, 360.
- Briscoe, Isabella, establishes school for Colored children, 212.
- Brooke, Samuel, member of the heterodox anti-slavery party, 48.
- Brown, Daniel, principal of Catholic Colored school, 213.
- Brown, John, member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, 50;
- mentioned, 82;
- hero and martyr, his birth, personal description of, 214;
- arrives in Kansas, denounces slavery in a political meeting at Osawatomie, 215;
- at Boston, 216;
- urges aid for the fugitive slaves, secures arms for the defence of Kansas, 218;
- his plan for freeing the slaves, 219;
- extract of a letter while in prison in regard to the attack on Harper's Ferry, plan for the rescue of, 220;
- instructions of, before the attack on Harper's Ferry, denies the charges of murder, treason, or rebellion, desires only the freedom of slaves, 222;
- descendant of a revolutionary officer, 223;
- in Ohio and Canada, matures his plan's for the attack, purchases farm near Harper's Ferry, amount of arms under his control, attack on Harper's Ferry, 224;
- defeat, capture, and execution, 225;
- last letter to Mrs. George Steams, 226;
- his influence upon the slavery question at the North, place in history, 227;
- held his first convention, list of the members, 495.
- Brown, John M., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Brown, Robert, establishes school for Colored children, 207.
- Bruce, Blanche K., his birth, enslavement, secures his freedom, education, 444;
- Bryan, Joseph, petitions Congress for a line of mail steam-ships to the Western Coast of Africa, 53.
- Buchanan, George, oration on the moral and political evil of slavery, 1791, mentioned, 38.
- Buchanan, James, in sympathy with the South, refuses military support to Gov. Geary, 110.
- Buell, Brig.-Gen. D. C., letter to J. R. Underwood on the return of fugitive slaves to their masters, 248.
- Bulkley, I., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, 156.
- Bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, established, 398;
- report, 399.
- Burling, Thomas, mentioned, 166.
- Burns, Francis, bishop of the M. E. Church, 469.
- Burnside, Maj.-Gen., Ambrose E., orders the arrest of two free Negroes, 244;
- Butler, Maj.-Gen., Benjamin F., letter to Gen. Scott, declaring slaves contraband of war, 250;
- Cain, R. H., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Calhoun, John C., his followers favor a demolition of the Union, 98;
- California, resolution in regard to the admission into the Union, 100, 101.
- Callioux, Capt. Andre, bravery at the battle of Port Hudson, 318, 321;
- Cameron, Simon, letter to Gen. Butler approving his action of declaring slaves contraband of war, 251;
- order in regard to enlistment of troops, 278.
- Campbell, H. G., commanding naval officer at Charleston, S. C., circular letter to, in regard to the importation of slaves, 10.
- Campbell, Jabez P., delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 422;
- Canada, Negroes settle in, 66, 70, 71;
- Negro colonization of, opposed, 72.
- Cannon, Gov. William, requests the enlistment of Negroes in Delaware, 291.
- Canterbury, Conn., protest of the citizens against admitting Colored pupils to school, 150, 151;
- Carey, Mary Ann Shadd, lecturer, writer, and school-teacher, 419.
- Carney, William H., sergeant in the 54th Mass. Regiment Colored Troops, his bravery at the assault on Fort Wagner, plants the colors of the regiment on the fort, 329-331.
- Carrollton, La., fugitive slaves offer their services to the army, 285.
- Casey, Maj.-Gen. Silas, letter endorsing the free military school for Negroes, 296.
- Cass, Lewis, speech in reply to Calhoun, in the United States Senate, on slavery, 105.
- Chalmers, Brig.-Gen. James R., his connection with the Fort Pillow massacre, 375.
- Champion, James, representative of Phila. in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Chapin's Farm, Va., Negro troops engage in the battle of, 335.
- Chapman, Maria Weston, her opinion of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 79.
- Charleston, S. C., the Negro plot of 1822, 83.
- "Charleston Mercury" (The) on the exchange of captured Negro soldiers, 358.
- Charlton, Rev. Richard, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Chase, Salmon P., speech against the repeal of the Missouri compromise, 109.
- Chauncey, Isaac, letter to Captain Perry defending the enlistment of Negroes in the U. S. Navy, 29.
- Child, Adventur, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, 126.
- "Choctaw," gun-boat, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326.
- Cincinnati, Ohio, mob destroys newspaper, 51;
- Cinquez, Joseph, son of an African prince, one of the "Amistad" captives, leads in the capture of the ship, 93;
- Clarkson, Mathew, mentioned, 166.
- Clay, Cascius M., member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, 50;
- mentioned, 51.
- Clay, Henry, mentioned, 20;
- Cleaveland, C. F., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, 156.
- Coggeshall, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, 126.
- Cogswell, James, mentioned, 166.
- Coke, Rev. Thomas, ordained bishop of the Methodist societies in America, 465.
- Coker, Daniel, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Colgan, Rev. Thomas, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Colonization Anti-Slavery Society, objects of the, 51.
- Colorado, number of Negro troops furnished by, 300.
- Columbian Institute, Washington, D. C., 186.
- Columbus, Ky., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.
- Confederate States, organized, 232;
- list of delegates to the convention, 232, 233;
- Jefferson Davis chosen President, Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President, Constitution adopted, 233;
- impress Negroes to build fortifications, 261;
- effect of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, 271;
- Negroes in the service of the, 277;
- resolutions of their Congress against the military employment of Negroes by the U. S., 350, 351;
- white officers commanding Negro troops against the, and Negroes captured in arms against the, to be executed, the first to employ Negro soldiers, 352;
- refuse to exchange Negro prisoners, 355-357;
- proclamation of Jefferson Davis outlawing Gen. Butler, 358;
- reconstruction of the, 377-383;
- provisional military government established, 379.
- Connecticut, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- Convention of the people of color, 1831, report on the condition of free Negroes in the United States, 62;
- Cook, D. R., organizes company of Negro troops, 277.
- Cook, Eliza Anne, establishes school for Colored children, 211.
- Cook, Major John B., Negro troops commanded by, capture redoubt at Petersburg, Va., 339.
- Cook, Rev. John F., sketch of, 187-191;
- Coppin, Mrs. Fanny M. See Jackson, Fanny M.
- Cornish, Alexander, establishes school for Colored children, 209.
- Costin, Louisa Parke, establishes school for Colored children, 192, 193.
- Costin, William, his death, 192;
- sketch of, 193.
- Coxe, R. S., emancipates slave, 210.
- Crandall, Prudence, establishes a school in Conn., admits Colored pupil, 149;
- Cuff, Peter, representative of Salem, N. J., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Cuffe, John and Paul, free Negroes, petition for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, 126, 127.
- Cumberland, Department of the, Negro troops recruited for, 294.
- Cumings, Mrs. Elizabeth, school of, mentioned, 471.
- Dandridge, Ann, family of, 193.
- Darnes, Mary A., address to the Attucks Guards of Cincinnati, 145.
- Davis, Jefferson, speech in the U. S. Senate, on the right to hold slaves, 102;
- Davis, John, Negro sailor, his bravery and death, 30.
- Deep Bottom, Va., Negro troops engage in the battle of, 335.
- De Grasse, John T., first Colored member of the Mass. Medical Society, 133;
- sketch of, 134.
- Delaware, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9;
- in favor of restriction of slavery, 16;
- slave population, 1820, 22;
- Quakers emancipate their slaves, 35;
- slave population, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- tax on slaves, added to the school fund for the education of white children, 157;
- order for the enlistment of Negroes, 291;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392.
- Deloach, C., organizes company of Negro troops, 277.
- Democratic Party, convention of, 1853, nominates Franklin Pierce for the Presidency, defines its position on the slavery question, 106.
- De Mortie, Louis, her birth, education, public reader, secures funds for the erection of an asylum for Colored orphans, her death, 449.
- De Peyster, Maj.-Gen. J. Watts, advocates the employment of Negroes as soldiers, 276.
- Dickerson, William F., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- District of Columbia, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- petition of Garrison for the abolition of slavery in, 39;
- slave population, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- schools for the education of the Negro population, 182-213;
- Lincoln in favor of the abolishing of slavery in the, 237;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- Negro school population, 1871, 1876, 387;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393.
- Dix, Maj.-Gen. John A., proclamation protecting slave property, 246.
- Dixon, Archibald, introduces bill in Congress for the repeal of the Missouri compromise, 108.
- Dodge, Henry, introduces bill in Congress to organize the territory of Nebraska, 107.
- Douglass, Frederick, his book "My Bondage, and My Freedom," 59;
- mentioned, 79, 81;
- delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 422;
- birth, enslavement, 424;
- escapes to the North, marries, life as a freeman, 425;
- becomes an anti-slavery orator, 426;
- publishes the experiences of a "fugitive slave," leaves for Great Britain, 427;
- letter to William Lloyd Garrison, 428;
- his freedom purchased, copy of freedom papers, 431;
- his former name when a slave, how he received his present one, 431, 432;
- returns to America, 432;
- reasons for leaving the Garrisonian party, establishes the newspaper "North Star," 433;
- his eloquence, 434, 437;
- influence and career, 437, 438;
- death of his wife, 437;
- mentioned, 471.
- Douglass, Margaret, arrested for instructing Negroes, 181.
- Douglass, Stephen A., speech in favor of the repeal of the Missouri compromise, 108;
- Douty, Lieut. Jacob, fires the mine at the siege of Petersburg, Va., 341.
- Dow, Jesse E., urges the establishment of a free Colored public school in the D. C., 209.
- Dunlap, George W., resolution in Congress, opposing the enlistment of Negroes, 282.
- Durham, Rev. Clayton, representative of Phila., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Dutch Gap, Va., excavated by Negroes, 262.
- Dwight, Brig.-Gen. William, orders the Negro troops to capture a battery at the battle of Port Hudson, 318.
- Early, Peter, introduces bill in Congress for the forfeiture of slaves illegally imported, 8.
- Economic Anti-Slavery Party, 49.
- Edwards, G. G., describes the bravery of Negro troops, 327.
- Edwards, Samuel, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 87.
- Elsworth, W. W., counsel for Prudence Crandall, 156.
- Embree, Lawrence, mentioned, 166.
- Embury, Phillip, one of the founders of M. E. Church in New York, 465.
- Emerson, Dr., owner of the Negro slave Dred Scott, 114.
- Emerson, R. W., his opinion of John Brown, 217.
- Emancipation proclamations, 255, 257, 263-275;
- Fair Oaks, Va., Negro troops engage in the battle of, 335.
- Faneuil Hall, Boston, meeting for the relief of Kansas, 216.
- Farmville, Va., Negro troops engaged in the battle of, 335.
- Faulkner, C. J., speech against slavery in the Legislature of Virginia, 35.
- Ferrer, Capt. Ramon, commander of the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 93.
- Ferrero, Brig.-Gen. Edward, Negro troops under the command of, defeat the Hampton Legion, 349.
- Finnegas, Lieut.-Col. Henry, commands the 3d La. Regiment of Colored Troops at the battle of Port Hudson, 320.
- Fish, Hamilton, certifies the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 421.
- Fleet, John H., establishes a school for Colored children, 207, 208.
- Florida, slave population, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- proceeds of the sale of slaves added to the school-fund, 158;
- secedes from the Union, 232; Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, 257;
- rescinded, 258;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Follen, Rev. Mr., speech in support of resolution on anti-slavery, 80.
- Ford, Mrs. George, establishes a school for Colored children, 207.
- Forrest, Maj.-Gen., N. B., attacks Fort Pillow, demands its surrender, orders the massacre of Negro soldiers, 360, 361;
- Fort Gibson, Ark., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, 313.
- Fort Mackinac, Mich., Negro sailors at, 28.
- Fort Pillow, Tenn., defended by Union troops, refuse to capitulate, 360;
- Fort Wagner, S. C., assault on, Negro regiment leads the charge, 308, 313, 328, 329.
- Forte, Sarah, verses on the Negro, 81.
- Forten, James, his subscription to the "Liberator," 43.
- Fortress Monroe, Va., first school for freedmen established at, 393.
- Fortune, Charlotte L., her education, literary abilities, 450.
- Foster, Gov. Charles, appoints Negro to office, 447;
- Foster, Col. John A., letter on the bravery of the Negro troops, 348.
- Franklin, Jesse, his report against the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indian Territory, 7.
- Franklin, Nicholas, former slave, establishes a Colored school, 182.
- Free Mission Institute, Ill., destroyed by a mob, 159.
- Free Soil Party, organized, 46.
- Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company, incorporated, list of the trustees, 403, 404;
- Freedmen's Bureau, established, 379;
- Friends, see Quakers.
- Fry, Brig.-Gen., orders the return of fugitive slaves, 246.
- Fugitive-Slave Law, of 1793, condemned, 2;
- Fulton, Rev. Justin D., preaches the funeral sermon of Col. Elsworth, views on slavery, 242, 243.
- Gabriel, General, leader of the Negro plot in Virginia, 1800, 83.
- Gaillard, Nicholas, representative of Baltimore, in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Gaines, John I., urges the claims of the Colored people to school-fund in Cincinnati, 171.
- Galveston, Texas, captured Negro soldiers sold into slavery, 353.
- Garnet, Henry Highland, mentioned, 79, 134.
- Garnett, James M., reports in favor of the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, 5.
- Garrison, William Lloyd, leader of the anti-slavery movement, edits newspapers, petitions Congress for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, 39;
- favors immediate emancipation, imprisoned for libel, 40;
- released, establishes the "Liberator," 41;
- extract from his article on the abolition of slavery, 41, 42;
- organizes the American Anti-Slavery Society, 43;
- mentioned, 63;
- opposed to the colonization of Negroes in Liberia, 70, 75;
- mobbed at Boston, 97;
- address at the Framingham celebration, 98;
- mentioned, 425, 426;
- Frederick Douglass's letter to, 428;
- his views on slavery, 433.
- Garrisanian Party, mentioned, 44;
- in favor of the dissolution of the Union, 98.
- Gedney, Lieut., Thomas R., captures the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 94.
- Georgetown, D. C., Colored schools, 206, 207.
- Georgia, slave population, 1800, 2;
- cedes territory for the formation of Alabama and Mississippi, 3;
- slave population, 1810, 9, 1820, 22, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- education of Negroes' prohibited, 158,
- advocated, 159;
- secedes from the Union, 232;
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, 257,
- rescinded, 258;
- expedition of Negro regiment into, 314;
- represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
- number of slaves, 1860, Negro school population, 1876, 387;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- elects Negro representative to Congress, 423.
- Gilmore, Rev. Hiram S., founder of the Cincinnati High School, 171.
- Goddard, Calvin, counsel for Prudence Crandall, 156.
- Gooch, D. W., one of the committee of investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre, 361.
- Gordon, Charlotte, establishes a school for Colored children, 213.
- "Governor Tompkins," armed schooner, bravery of Negro sailors on board of the, 30.
- Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., orders the attack on Petersburg, 336, 337;
- Grant, Nancy, establishes a school for Colored children, 206.
- Gray, Samuel, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation, in Mass., 1780, 125.
- Greeley, Horace, leader of the economic anti-slavery party, 49;
- Green, John P., his struggles to obtain an education, successful orator, lawyer, and statesman, 447, 448.
- Greener, Richard Theodore, his early life, 438;
- education, first Colored graduate of Harvard University, 439;
- principal of the Institute for Colored Youth, and Sumner High School, accepts the Chair of Metaphysics and Logic in the University of S. C., Dean of the Law Department of Howard University, graduates from the Law School of the University of S. C., literary career, 440;
- the intellectual position of the Negro, a reply to James Parton's article on the antipathy to the Negro, 441;
- speech at the dinner of the Harvard Club, 442.
- Greenlaw, William B., organizes company of Negro troops, 277.
- Grimes, Rev. Leonard Andrew, Colored Baptist minister, sketch of his life, 505-512;
- Grow, G. A., Stanton's letters to, 279.
- Guinea, memorial against the slave-trade on the coast of, 2.
- Gurley, Rev. R. R., favors the colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, 52, 70, 75.
- Hall, Anne Maria, establishes school for Colored children, 183.
- Hall, Primus, first school for Colored children, held in the house of, 1798, 162.
- Hallock, Maj.-Gen., Henry W., forbids fugitive slaves entering the army, 247, 248.
- Hamilton, Paul, circular letter to H. G. Campbell, in regard to the importation of slaves, 10.
- Hammond, Eliza Ann, arrested for attending school in Conn., 152.
- Hampton, Va., school for the education of Negroes, 394;
- normal and agricultural institute, 395.
- Hampton, Fanny, establishes school for Colored children, 207.
- Hampton Legion, defeated by Negro troops, 349.
- Harden, Henry, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Harper, Frances Ellen, essayist and lecturer, 419.
- Harper's Ferry, Va., operations of John Brown at, 222, 224.
- Harris, Sarah, protests of the citizens of Canterbury, Conn., against her attending school, 150.
- Hartford, Conn., establishes a separate school for Colored children, 149.
- Harvard University, first Colored graduate, 439.
- Hatcher's Run, Va., Negro troops engaged in the battle of, 335.
- Havana, Cuba, Spanish slaver "Amistad" sails from, with slaves, 93.
- Hayard, Elisha, mentioned, 187;
- school-house destroyed by a mob, 189.
- Hayes, Alexander, establishes school for Colored children, 209;
- emancipated, his marriage, 210.
- Hayes, Rutherford B., failure of his Southern policy, 522-524.
- Hayti, opposition to the colonization of, by free Negroes, 70;
- E. D. Bassett appointed Minister to, 423.
- Heck, Barbara, foundress of American Methodism, 465.
- Helena, Ark., bravery of Negro troops at battle of, 313.
- Helper, Hinton R., influence of his book the "Impending Crisis," 60.
- Henderson, Rev. Henry, school of, mentioned, 471.
- Henry, Patrick, opposed to slavery, 33.
- Heterodox Anti-Slavery Party, the platform of the, 48.
- Higginson, Col. Thomas Wentworth, description of regiment of Colored Troops commanded by, 304;
- expedition into Georgia, 314.
- Hildreth, Joseph, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Hill, Margaret, establishes school for Colored children, 209.
- Hill, Stephen, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Hinks, Brig.-Gen. Edward W., commands brigade of Negro troops at the battle of Petersburg, Va., 336, 339, 346.
- Holt, Joseph, letter to the Secretary of War on the enlistment of slaves, 307.
- Honey Springs, Ark., bravery of Negro troops at the battle of, 346.
- Hooker, Maj.-Gen. Joseph, order in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, 249.
- Hosier, Rev. Harry, first Negro preacher in the M. E. Church in America, 466;
- Houston, Gen. Samuel, proposition to Congress on the admission of California and New Mexico, 100, 101;
- maintains Congress has no authority to prohibit or interfere with slavery, 101.
- Howard, Maj.-Gen. O. O. appointed Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, his report on schools established by the bureau, 385;
- Howland, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, 126.
- Huddlestone, William, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Humphreys, Richard, founder of the Institute for Colored Youth, 176.
- Hunter, Maj.-Gen. David, proclamation emancipating slaves, 257;
- Hunter, Rev. William H., establishes school for Colored people, 212.
- Illinois, slave population in the territory of, 1810, 9, 1820, 22, 1830, 1840, 99;
- first constitution, Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians exempted from militia service, free Negroes required to produce certificate of freedom, persons bringing slaves into, for the purpose of emancipating, to give bonds, 122;
- criminal code enacted, Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians declared incompetent to be witnesses, Act to prevent the immigration of free Negroes into, 123;
- separate schools for Colored children established, the Free Mission Institute destroyed by mob, 159;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422;
- Negro elected to the Legislature, 447.
- Indiana, slave population in the territory of, 1800, 2;
- William Henry Harrison, appointed governor, 3;
- memorial to Congress for the modification of the ordinance of 1787, 4-8;
- slave population, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- law in regard to executions against the time of service of slaves, 119, 121;
- Act for the introduction of Negroes, 120;
- first constitution, Negroes excluded from giving testimony, Act regulating free Negroes, 121;
- Negroes denied the right of suffrage, 159;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Indians, list of, ordered to leave Mass., 130.
- Institute for Colored Youth, established, 176.
- Iowa, number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- "Isaac Smith," gun-boat, free Negroes captured from, 354.
- Jackson, Alfred, fugitive slave, claimed by his master, 245;
- leaves for Michigan, 246.
- Jackson, Andrew, proclamation of, calling for Negro troops, War of 1812, 25;
- orders the suppression of the Snow riot at Washington, D. C., 189.
- Jackson, Edward, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Jackson, Fanny M., her birth, education, 448;
- school-teacher, 449.
- Jackson, Rev. Henry, Negroes excluded from the church of, 430.
- Jarrot vs. Jarrot, case of, mentioned, 120.
- Jay, John, president of the N. Y. Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, 167.
- Jefferson, Thomas, recommends the abolishing of the slave-trade, 8;
- Jerusalem Court-House, Va., Negro insurrection at, 1831, 88.
- Johnson, John, Negro sailor, his bravery and death, 30.
- Jordan, Thomas, letter to Col. B. R. Rhett, Jr., relative to the refusal of the Confederate army to exchange captured Negro soldiers, 358.
- Jordan vs. Smith, case of, mentioned, 113.
- "Journal of the Times" (The), anti-slavery newspaper, advocates the claims of John Quincy Adams, 39.
- Judah, Brig.-Gen., H. M., orders the return of fugitive slaves, 245.
- Judge, Philadelphia, former slave to Martha Washington, 193.
- Judson, Andrew T., decision in the case of the "Amistad" captives, 94;
- Kansas, fugitive-slave bill passed, speech of John Brown against slavery, 215;
- infested by border ruffians, aid for the relief of, 216;
- arms purchased for the defence of, 218;
- plan of John Brown for the freedom of slaves in, 219;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422;
- freedmen's relief association, organized, 536.
- Kentucky, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9;
- King, John, member of the first American Methodist Conference, 466.
- Ku Klux, a secret organization, objects of, 382.
- Lafayette, Marquis de, address to the scholars of the N. Y. African free school, 168.
- Langston, John Mercer, born a slave, education, services, Resident Minister and Consul-General to Hayti, 446.
- Lake Erie, N. Y., Negro sailor represented in the picture of Perry's victory on, 28;
- bravery of the Negro sailors at the battle of, 30.
- Lancaster County, Pa., free public Colored school, 206.
- Lawrence, John, mentioned, 166.
- Lawrence, Kansas, sacked and burned by a mob, 215.
- Lawrence, Nathaniel, mentioned, 166.
- Leaman, Jacob, mentioned, 166.
- Leaman, Willett, mentioned, 166.
- Ledlie, Brig.-Gen., James H., attempts to fire the mine at the siege of Petersburg, Va., 341.
- Lee, General Fitz-Hugh, defeated by Negro troops at the battle of Wilson's Wharf, 335.
- Lee, William Thomas, his school for Colored children burned, 205;
- threatened by mob, 206.
- Leming, Lieut., Mc J., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 367.
- Lenox, Walter, opposed to the education of Colored people, 201.
- Leonard, Rev. Chauncey, his school for Colored children destroyed by mob, 192.
- Lewis, Edmonia, Negro sculptress, sketch of, 450.
- "Lexington," gun-boat, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326.
- "Liberator" (The), anti-slavery newspaper, established, 41.
- Liberia, proposed colony of free Negroes at, 51, 54, 56;
- protest against the colonization, 70.
- Lincoln, Abraham, in favor of the Union of the States, 230;
- speech against slavery, 232;
- his answers to Stephen A. Douglass' questions on slavery, 237-239;
- in favor of gradual emancipation, elected President of the United States, 239;
- his inaugural address regarding slavery, 240;
- letter in reply to Horace Greeley, on slavery, 254;
- to Gen. Fremont, disproving his proclamation emancipating slaves in Missouri, 256;
- rescinds proclamation of Gen. Hunter, 258;
- conservative policy of, 259;
- his reasons for not issuing emancipation proclamation, 264-266;
- issues emancipation proclamation, 267-269;
- second proclamation, 272;
- opposed to the enlistment of Negroes, 278;
- authorizes the enlistment of Negro
- troops, 285;
- second call for troops, 287;
- his order in regard to prisoners of war, 355.
- Lincoln University, see Ashum Institute.
- Littlefield, Col. M. S., letter describing the bravery of Sergeant William II. Carney at the assault on Fort Wagner, 331.
- Liverpool, Moses, former slave, erects Colored school, 182.
- Livingston, Edward, address to the Negro troops before the battle of New Orleans, 26.
- Loguen, Bishop, his book, "As a Slave and as a Freeman," mentioned, 59.
- Longworth, Nicholas, builds the first school-house for Colored people in Cincinnati, 172.
- Louisiana, slave population in, and territory of, 1810>, 9,1820, 22;
- bravery of the Negro troops of, at the battle of New Orleans, 27;
- slave population, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- education of Negroes prohibited, 160;
- secedes from the Union, 232;
- fugitive slaves offer their services in the army, 285;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- bravery of the 1st regiment, Negroes, at the battle of Port Hudson, 317-324, 345;
- the 9th and 11th regiments, Negroes, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326, 327;
- represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
- Negro population in excess of the white, 386;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Lovejoy, E. P., member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, 50;
- killed by a mob, 51.
- Lundy, Benjamin, earliest advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, establishes anti-slavery newspaper, 1821, 38;
- McClellan, Maj.-Gen, George B., views on slavery, 249;
- Secretary Seward's letter to, in regard to fugitive slaves, 263.
- McCoy, Benjamin M., one of the founders of Colored Sunday-school at Washington, D. C., 187;
- McCrady, John, chief engineer of Georgia, ordered to impress Negroes to build fortifications, 261.
- McLeod, John, in favor of the education of the Colored people, 186.
- Madden, Rev. Samuel, a Colored Baptist minister, 476.
- Madison, James, opposed to slavery, 33;
- president of the American Colonization Society, 52.
- Maine, bill for the admission of, into the Union, 16;
- Malcom, Rev. Howard, favors the colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, 52.
- Mallory, Col., fugitive slaves of, declared contraband of war, 250.
- Mann, Horace, favors the colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, 52.
- Marechal, Rev. Ambrose, in favor of the education of the Negroes, 161.
- Marsh, Jacob, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Maryland, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- Quakers emancipate their slaves, 35;
- slave population, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- Negroes excluded from the schools, St. Frances Academy founded, 160;
- the Wells school established, 161;
- order for the enlistment of Negroes, 290;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393.
- Massachusetts, petition of the free Negroes for relief from taxation, 1780, 126, 127;
- Massachusetts General Colored Association, 78;
- letter to New England Anti-Slavery Society desiring to become auxiliary to the latter, 79.
- Massachusetts Medical Society, first Colored member admitted to the, 133.
- Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, amount of money furnished for the relief of Kansas, 216, 218.
- Massachusetts Volunteers, 54th regiment, first Colored troops raised at the North, 289;
- Mattock, White, mentioned, 166.
- May, Rev. Samuel J., in favor of education of Colored children in Conn., 150, 151, 153, 157.
- Mercer, Brig.-Gen. Hugh W., order to impress Negroes to build fortifications, 261.
- Methodist Episcopal Church founded, Negro servants and slaves contributors to the erection of the first chapel in New York, 1768, 465;
- Michigan, slave population in the territory of, 1810, 9;
- Middleton, Charles H., establishes school for Colored children, 207, 208.
- Milliken's Bend., La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, 308, 313, 326, 345.
- Miner, Myrtilla, establishes seminary for Colored girls, 196;
- Minnesota, number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Minot, William, address at the dedication of the Smith school-house, 162.
- Mississippi, slave population in territory of, 1800, 2;
- one of the most cruel of slave States, 3;
- formation of the territory of, 3;
- slave population, 1810, 9;
- applies for admission into the Union with a slave constitution, 9;
- slave population, 1820, 22, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- education of Negroes prohibited, conduct of slaves regulated, preaching the Gospel by slaves declared unlawful, 163;
- secedes from the Union, 232;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- 1st regiment of Negroes at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326;
- represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
- Negro population in excess of the white, 386;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Missouri, applies for admission into the Union, 14;
- Arkansas formed from, 15;
- controversy, 16-20;
- admitted into the Union, 20;
- slave population, 1820, 22, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- Negroes ordered to leave the State, education prohibited, 163;
- order for the enlistment of Negroes, 290;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Mitchell, Charles L., member of the Legislature of Mass., 446.
- Mobile, Ala., educational privileges granted to the free Creoles, 148.
- Monroe, James, message to Congress in regard to the slave-trade, 12.
- Montes, Don Pedro, passenger on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," compelled by the slaves to navigate the ship, 93;
- charged with piracy, 94.
- Montgomery, Ala., Confederate States organized, 232.
- Morgan, Rev. J. V. B., establishes school for Colored children, 209.
- Morris, Catharine, contributes money for the education of Colored people, 199.
- Morris Island, S. C., battle on, Negro regiment leads the assault, 313, 328, 329.
- Morsell, Judge James, interested in the education of Colored people, 207.
- Mott, Lydia P., establishes a home for Colored orphans, 144.
- Murfreesboro, Tenn., captured Negro soldiers massacred at, 353.
- Murray, John, Jr., mentioned, 166.
- Muse, Lindsay, one of the founders of Colored Sunday-school at Washington, D. C., 186.
- Mussey, Captain R. D., superintends the recruiting of Negro troops, 294.
- Nantucket, Mass., anti-slavery convention at, 425.
- Nashville, Tenn., Negroes in the Confederate service, 277;
- Natchez, Miss., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.
- National anti-slavery convention, held in Phila., 1833, 44.
- Neau, Elias, establishes a school for Negro slaves, in New York, 1704;
- Nebraska, bill introduced in Congress, to organize the territory of, 107, 110;
- Negroes, free, sold as slaves, 2;
- premium to informer of illegally imported, seized in the United States, 10;
- imported to St. Mary's, 10;
- to be returned to Africa, 12;
- serve in the War of 1812, 23-27;
- Gen. Jackson's proclamation calling for Negro troops, 25;
- Gen. Livingston's address, 26;
- rated as chattel property, their valor in war secures them immunity in peace, at the battle of New Orleans, 27;
- in the United States Navy, 28-30; at Fort Mackinac, 1814, 28;
- their treatment as sailors, Captain Perry's letter to Commodore Chauncey, complaining of the men sent him, 28;
- Commodore Chauncey's reply, 29;
- at the battle of Lake Erie, represented in the picture of Perry's victory on Lake Erie, letter of Nathaniel Shaler commending the bravery of the sailors under his command, 30;
- military services, 32;
- proposed colony of free, at Liberia, 51, 54, 56;
- authors of anti-slavery literature, 59;
- anti-slavery efforts of free, 61-81;
- conventions of the people of color, 61-79;
- condition of free, in United States, 62, 67;
- proposed college for, 63;
- settle in Canada, 66, 71, 73;
- opposed to colonization in Liberia and Hayti, 70;
- leave Ohio, for Canada, 71, 76;
- colonization of Upper Canada, opposed, 72;
- dissolution of anti-slavery societies composed of, 79;
- prejudice against admitting, into white societies, eloquence of the, as orators, 81;
- insurrections of, 82-92;
- why they were kept in bondage, 82;
- plot of the, in Virginia, 1800, 83;
- in Charleston, S. C., 1822, 84;
- insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 1831, 87-89;
- the "Amistad" captives, 93-96;
- Northern sympathy and Southern subterfuges, 1850-1860, 97-100;
- schools broken up, pupils maltreated, 97;
- the "Black Laws" of "Border States," 111-124;
- Ohio laws against free, 111, 112;
- compelled to show certificate of freedom, 112;
- laws against kidnapping, 113;
- not citizens, 114, 118;
- denied the right to vote, 119, 122;
- excluded from the militia service, schools established for free, 119;
- Act for the introduction of, into Indiana, 120;
- excluded from giving testimony, 121, 123;
- exempted from militia service, 122;
- Act to prevent the immigration of free, into Illinois, 123;
- restrictions and proscriptions in the Northern States, 124;
- the Northern, 125-146;
- number of free, in the slave and Northern States, 125;
- petition for relief from taxation of free, in Mass., 1780, 126;
- law preventing, from other States settling in Mass., 127;
- notice to, warning them to leave Mass., 128;
- list of, ordered to leave Mass., 128, 129;
- rights and privileges restricted, 130-132;
- educated by their own race, admitted to the bar, practice of medicine, pulpit, authors, orators, 133;
- prominent, 134, 135;
- amount paid for their freedom, 134;
- distinguished in the pulpit, 135;
- report on the condition of, in Cincinnati, 1835, 136-138;
- militia company of, 145;
- emigrate to Liberia, overcome prejudice against the race, 146;
- school laws, 1619-1860, 147-213;
- education of, prohibited, 148, 149, 157, 158, 160, 163, 170, 178-181;
- prejudice against the schools for, in Conn., 149;
- resolutions against the establishing of schools for, in Conn., 150;
- school abolished, 152, 153;
- school-house mobbed, 156, 159;
- African School Association established, 157;
- education of, advocated, 158, 159;
- denied the right of suffrage, 159;
- elective franchise and school privileges in Maine, 160;
- schools established, 161, 162, 164, 168-178, 182-213;
- first school established by, 162;
- ordered to leave Missouri, 163;
- plot for burning New York, 164;
- prohibited the use of the streets, kidnapped, 165;
- school trustees, 171, 172;
- admitted to Oberlin College, 172;
- the employment of, as clerks forbidden, 180;
- stringent laws of Va., 180, 181;
- attacked by a mob, 188;
- population in United States, 229;
- their services in the War of 1861 declined, not the cause of the War of 1861, 242;
- arrest of free, by the army, 244;
- ordered from the Union army, 250;
- on fatigue duty, 260-262;
- employed as teamsters and in the quartermaster's department, 260;
- number at Port Royal, cultivate land, self-supporting, 261;
- order to impress, to build fortifications for Confederate States, 261, 262;
- fortifications and earthworks built by, industrious and earn promotion, 262;
- emancipation proclamations, 263-275;
- President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation imparts new hope to the, 274;
- as soldiers in the War of 1861, 276-309;
- in the Confederate service, 277, 278;
- presented with war flag, 277;
- President Lincoln opposed to the enlistment of, first regiment of loyal, organized, 278;
- official correspondence of the Secretary of War, concerning the enlistment of, 279, 280;
- their abilities as soldiers, 282;
- President Lincoln authorizes the raising of five regiments of, 285;
- regiments of free, at New Orleans, 287;
- bill in Congress for the employment of, as soldiers, 287;
- action of Congress, on the proposed amendment to the army appropriation bill, to prohibit the enlistment of, 288;
- Mass. furnishes regiment of, 289;
- official order for the enlistment of, 290;
- New York furnishes regiments of, 292;
- Pennsylvania regiments of, 293;
- prejudice against, as soldiers, free military school established, 293;
- number of, in the army, 297, 299-301;
- use of, as soldiers, 301;
- the character of, 303;
- as soldiers, 306, 310-349;
- bravery of, in battle, 308, 313, 323, 329, 336, 338, 342, 345-349;
- legally and constitutionally soldiers, 309;
- persecuted in the army, 311;
- expedition of the First S. C. Volunteers into Ga., and Fla., 314;
- at the battle of Port Hudson, 316-323;
- commended for their bravery, 323, 338, 346;
- Boker's poem on "The Black Regiment," 324;
- at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326;
- draft riot at N. Y., mob destroy orphan asylum, hang several, and destroy property of, 328;
- lead the assault on Fort. Wagner, 329, 331-335;
- number of battles fought by, in the Army of the Potomac, 335;
- defeat Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee at Wilson's Wharf, 335, 336;
- at the battle of Petersburg, Va., 336-342;
- Nashville, Tenn., 342;
- list of the losses, 343;
- at Appomattox, Va., their efficiency as soldiers, 344;
- forts garrisoned by, 345;
- soldierly qualities, 346, 347;
- history records their deeds of valor, in the preservation of the Union, 349;
- capture and treatment of, 350-376;
- Confederate States opposed to the military employment of, by the U. S. Government, 350, 351;
- captured in arms against the Confederate States to be executed, 352;
- captured, sold into slavery, the government urged to protect enlisted, massacre of prisoners, 353;
- ill-treatment of free, captured on gun-boat, 354;
- Confederate States refuse to exchange captured, as prisoners of war, 355, 357;
- defend Fort Pillow, and are massacred, 360, 361;
- testimony in regard to the massacre, 361-375;
- the first decade of freedom, 377-383;
- condition of, at the close of the war, 378, 381, 382;
- bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees established, 379;
- in Congress, members of Legislature in the Southern States, 382;
- the results of emancipation, 384-418;
- advance in education, 382, 387, 388, 396;
- number of schools attended, 382;
- amount of money raised by, for the support of schools, 386, 394;
- population in excess of the whites, in La., S. C., and Miss., 386;
- comparative statistics of education at the South, 388;
- statistics of institutions for the instruction of, 389-393;
- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established, 398;
- military savings-banks, Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company established, 403, 407;
- failure of the bank, 411, 412;
- social and financial condition of the, in the South, 413, 414;
- character of the Southern, 414;
- rarely receive justice in Southern courts, 415;
- their treatment as convicts, 416;
- increase, from 1790-1880, 417;
- susceptible of the highest civilization, 418;
- representative men, 419-448;
- ratification of the fifteenth amendment, granting manhood suffrage to American, 420-422;
- in the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, in the diplomatic service, 423;
- representative women, 448-451;
- African M. E. Church, 452-464;
- contributors to the erection of the first M. E. chapel in New York, 1768, 465;
- Baptists of America, 475-515;
- the decline of Negro governments, 516-528;
- the exodus—cause and effect, 529;
- abridgment of their rights, the plantation credit system, 530;
- political intimidation, murder, and outrage against the, 531-533;
- settle in Kansas, 536;
- retrospection and prospection, 544;
- power of endurance, number of tribes of, represented in U. S., achievements as laborers, soldiers, and students, 545;
- first blood shed by, in the Revolution and the War for the Union, 546.
- Nelson, Col. John A., commands Negro troops at the battle of Port Hudson, 318.
- Nevada, ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- New Bedford, Mass., Negroes excluded from the Lyceum, 430.
- Newburyport, Mass., anti-slavery newspaper published, 39;
- ship "Francis Todd" from, engaged in the slave-trade, 40.
- New England Anti-slavery Society, appoints Mass. General Colored Association its auxiliary, 79;
- resolution in regard to anti-slavery, 80.
- "New Era," gun-boat, at the attack on Fort Pillow, 360.
- New Hampshire, slave population, 1800, 2;
- New Haven, Conn., proposed college for young men of color, 63;
- citizens of, oppose the erection of the college, 76.
- New Jersey, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9;
- New London, Conn., the Spanish slaver "Amistad" captured and taken to, trial of the slaves, 94.
- Newman, Rev. W. P., Colored Baptist minister, 476.
- New Mexico, resolution in regard to the admission into the Union, 100, 101;
- number of troops furnished by, 300.
- New Orleans, La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, 27;
- New York, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9;
- Legislature passes resolutions against the extension of slavery, 16;
- slave population, 1820, 22;
- authorizes the enlistment of Negro troops in the War of 1812, 23;
- convention of the Anti-Slavery Women of America, 80;
- slave population, 1840, 99;
- right of suffrage granted to every male inhabitant, 163,
- rights of Negroes denied, 164;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- New York African Free School, organized, 165;
- New York City, prominent Colored men of, 134;
- school for Negro slaves, 1704, 164, 165;
- Negro plot, 164;
- Negroes prohibited the use of the streets, kidnapped, N. Y. African Free School organized, 165;
- school-house destroyed by fire, 166;
- public schools for Colored children, 168-170;
- Union League Club raise Colored troops, 292;
- draft riot, Colored Orphan Asylum burned by mob, 328;
- first Methodist Episcopal chapel erected, 465.
- New York Public School Society, assumes control of the Colored schools, 168.
- New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, organized, 165.
- "New York Times" (The), articles on Negro troops, 284, 301, 313, 314, 320.
- "New York Tribune" (The), articles on Negro troops, 303-307, 353.
- Nichols, Manuel, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 361.
- Nickens, Rev. David, Colored Baptist minister, 476.
- Norfolk, Va., military savings-bank for Negroes established, 403.
- North Carolina, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22, 1830, 99, 1840, 1850, 100;
- Northup, Solomon, narrative of, mentioned, 59.
- Noxon, Thomas, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Oberlin College, Colored students admitted to, 172.
- O'Connell, Daniel, extract of speech against slavery, 43.
- Ohio, constitution adopted, 3;
- Negroes leave for Canada, 71;
- laws against free Negroes and Mulattoes, in, 112;
- fugitive-slave law recognized, 112;
- law to prevent kidnapping of free Negroes, 113;
- first constitution, 113, 114;
- free Negroes denied the right to vote, excluded from the militia service, separate schools, 119;
- Colored schools established, 170-172;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422;
- Negroes, members of the Legislature, 447.
- Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, report on the condition of the people of color, 1835, 136-138.
- Owen, Richard, first native Methodist preacher in America, 465.
- Paducah, Ky., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.
- Park, Benjamin, report in favor of the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, 6.
- Parker, Mary S., President of the Anti-Slavery Women of America, 80.
- Parker, Theodore, favors the extinction of slavery, 48.
- Paul, William, his connection with the Negro plot in Charleston, S. C., 1822, 85.
- Payne, Daniel A., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Peck, Maj.-Gen. John J., letter to Gen. Pickett, relative to killing of Negro soldier after surrendering, 356.
- Pemberton, John, bequest for the education of Colored people, 175.
- Pennsylvania, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9;
- resolutions against the extension of slavery, 16;
- anti-slavery society, 20;
- slave population, 1820, 22;
- Quakers emancipate their slaves, 38;
- slave population, 1840, 100;
- Colored schools established, 172-178;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society, establish Colored schools, 175, 176.
- Perry, Capt. Oliver Hazard, letter to Commodore Chauncey, complaining of the Negro sailors sent him, 28;
- commends bravery of the Negro sailors at Lake Erie, 29.
- Petersburg, Va., Negro troops engaged in the siege of, 335-337;
- Phelps, Brig.-Gen. J. W., report in favor of enlisting Negroes, 285;
- Philadelphia, Colored citizens of, send memorial to Congress, against the slave-trade, 2;
- anti-slavery newspaper, published, 38;
- national anti-slavery convention, 44;
- conventions of the people of color, 61, 68;
- prominent Colored men, 134;
- amount paid for their freedom, 134;
- churches, 135;
- first Colored school established, 172;
- Quakers establish school, 174;
- number of public schools, condition and population of the Colored people, 175;
- Negro troops recruited, 293;
- free military school for Negroes established, 295-298; first American Methodist conference, 465.
- "Philanthropist" (The), office destroyed by a mob, 51.
- Phœbe vs. Jay, case of, mentioned, 120.
- Pickett, Maj.-Gen. J. E., letter to Gen. Peck, relative to killing of Negro soldier after surrender, 357.
- Pierce, Rev. Charles, minister of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Pierce, Franklin, nominated for President of the United States, 106;
- elected, in favor of slavery, 107.
- Pillsbury, Parker, member of the heterodox anti-slavery party, 48.
- Pilmoor, Joseph, member of the first American Methodist conference, 466.
- Planciancois, Anselmas, color-sergeant of the First Louisiana Regiment of Colored Troops, his reply on receiving the colors of the regiment, 316, 319;
- bravery and death, 319.
- Poindexter, Rev. James, Colored Baptist minister, 476, 503.
- Port Hudson, La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, 308, 313, 317, 318, 322, 345.
- Port Royal, S. C., first regiment of loyal Negroes, organized, 278.
- Porter, Henry, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton Co., Va., 87.
- Potter, Henry, establishes school for Colored children, 183.
- Poyas, Peter, his connection with the Negro plot in Charleston, S.C., 1822, 22.
- Presbyterian church, the first Colored, Washington, D. C., organized, 189.
- Prout, John W., establishes school for Colored children, 185, 186;
- opposed to the emigration of Negroes to Liberia, 185.
- Providence, R. I., Colored school abolished, 178.
- Quakers, emancipate their slaves, 35, 38;
- Quincy, Ill., the Free Mission Institute destroyed by a mob, 159.
- Quincy, Josiah, signs memorial against the increase of slavery, 16.
- Quinn, Rev. William Paul, minister of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Randolph, John, report in Congress, against the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, 4.
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, speech against slavery in the Legislature of Virginia, 33.
- Rankin, Thomas, president of the first American Methodist conference, 466.
- Rankin vs. Lydia, case of, mentioned, 120.
- Ray, John F., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 373.
- Reconstruction, 1865-1875, 377-383.
- Reeder, Gov. Andrew II., threatened by mob, leaves Kansas, 216.
- Rees, Sergt. Henry, fires the mine at the siege of Petersburg, Va., 341.
- Republican party, decline of the, 518;
- Revels, Hiram R., succeeds Jefferson Davis in the U. S. Senate, 423.
- Rhode Island, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- Richardson, Mrs. Henry, raises money for the purchase of the freedom of Frederick Douglass, 431.
- Richmond, Va., Negro plot, 1800, 83;
- "Richmond Enquirer" (The), mentioned, 89;
- "Richmond Examiner" (The), on the treatment of captured Negro soldiers, 354, 355.
- Roberts, Thomas Wright, bishop of the M. E. Church, 469.
- Rodney, Cæsar, report in favor of the modification of the ordinance of 1787 in Indiana Territory, 4.
- Roman Catholic school for Colored people, 194, 212.
- Ruffner, W. H., superintendent of public instruction, commended, 393;
- his report, 395.
- Ruiz, Jose, passenger on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 93;
- charged with piracy, 94.
- Russell, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, 126.
- Russworm, John B., teacher in the African school, Boston, Governor of Cape Palmas, Liberia, 162.
- St. Frances Academy for Colored girls, founded, 160.
- St. Mary's, Md., slaves imported to, 10.
- Satchell, Rev. Charles, Colored Baptist minister, 476.
- Saunders, George Nicholas, his connection with the proposed steam-ship line to Africa, 53.
- Savannah, Ga., education of Negroes prohibited, 158.
- Saxton, Brig.-Gen. Rufus, authorized to enlist Negroes, 283;
- establishes military savings-bank for Negroes, 403.
- Scott, Dred, Negro slave, 114;
- Scott, Lieut.-Gen. Winfield, Gen. Butler's letter to, declaring slaves contraband of war, 250;
- Seward, William H., in favor of Union of the States, 230;
- Seymour, Horatio, opinion in regard to raising Negro troops, 292;
- addresses the draft rioters at New York, 328.
- Shadford, George, member of the first American Methodist conference, 466.
- Shaler, Capt. Nathaniel, letter commending the bravery of Negro sailors under his command, 30.
- Shaw, Col. Robert Gould, commander of the 54th Mass. Regiment of Colored Troops, leads the assault on Fort Wagner, 329, 333;
- Shelton, Rev. Wallace, Colored Baptist minister, 503.
- Sherman, Brig.-Gen. T. W., proclamation protecting slave property, 246;
- Sherwood, Gen. Isaac R., his account of an attempt to secure a fugitive slave in his charge, 245, 246.
- Shirley, Thomas, donates money for Colored school-house, 174.
- Shorter, Rev. James, establishes Colored school, 213.
- Shorter, James A., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Shurtleff, Capt. G. W., refuses to arrest fugitive slaves, 245.
- Simpson, Rev. H. L., Colored Baptist minister, 476.
- Slave-trade, on the coast of Guinea, secretly carried on in the United States, 2;
- American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from United States to foreign markets, 3;
- Jefferson recommends the abolishing of the, 8;
- Act of Congress in regard to persons engaged in the, 9;
- memorials against the, 10;
- illegal at St. Mary's, 10;
- vessels engaged in the, to be seized, 13;
- ship "Francis Todd," from Newburyport, Mass, engaged in the, 40;
- bill for the suppression of the, 53;
- Spanish slaver "Amistad," 93;
- number of slaves imported for the, from the year 1500 to 1860, 544.
- Slavery, restriction and extension, 1800-1825, 1-22;
- increase of, 1800, 1;
- slave population in United States, 1800, 1, 2;
- the fugitive-slave law of 1793, source of persecution to the free Colored people, 2;
- growth of, in United States, 1810, 9;
- President Monroe's message to Congress on the question of, 12;
- resolutions in favor of restriction of, in the new States, 16;
- anti-slavery societies formed, Act for the gradual abolition of, in New Jersey, 20;
- attitude of the Northern press on the question of, 21;
- anti-slavery sentiments of the North, 22;
- retrospection and reflection, 1825-1850, 31-36;
- secured at the South, 31;
- Jefferson predicts the abolition of, 33;
- increase of, 33;
- speeches against, in the Legislature of Virginia, 33-35;
- evil effect upon society, 35;
- the South in favor of, 36;
- anti-slavery methods, 37-60;
- anti-slavery newspapers established, 38, 39;
- Buchanan's oration against, 1791, 38;
- first anti-slavery society established in United States, 43;
- O'Connell's speech against, 43;
- Sumner's speech, 46;
- the South entertains hope that, will become national, 98;
- increase in the United States, 99, 100;
- Congress has no authority to prohibit, Henry Clay's resolutions in Congress for the adjustment of, does not exist by law in the United States, 101;
- Senator Bell's resolutions, Jefferson Davis's speech in favor of, 102;
- Calhoun's speech, 103-105;
- President Pierce in favor of, 107;
- ignorance favorable to, 148;
- John Brown's speech against, 215;
- speeches of William H. Seward against, 230, 231;
- Lincoln's speech against, 230;
- Alexander H. Stephens's speech in favor of, 235;
- the extension of, the issue between the North and South, 236, 240;
- Lincoln's views on, 237-239;
- Rev. Justin D. Fulton's views on, 242, 243;
- Gen. McClellan's views on, 249;
- Greeley's letter to Lincoln, 253;
- Lincoln's reply, 254;
- struggle for the supremacy between the Union and, 259;
- Lincoln's views on, 264-266;
- resolutions of the Confederate Congress, 350, 351;
- abolished in the U. S., 377;
- the legal destruction of, and a constitutional prohibition, 419.
- Slaves, number of, in the United States, 1800, 1, 2;
- free Colored men sold as, fugitive-slave law of 1793, cause of persecution to the Colored people, 2;
- American ships prohibited from supplying, from United States to foreign markets, 3;
- importation of, prohibited, 8;
- illegally imported to be forfeited, 8;
- number of, in United States, 1810, 9;
- circular-letter of the United States Navy Department in regard to the importation of, premium to informer for imported, seized in United States, 10;
- number of, in United States, 1820, 22;
- the right to hold, questioned, 32;
- increase of, 33;
- Quakers of Maryland and Delaware, emancipate their, 35;
- in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 38;
- from Baltimore, sent to New Orleans to be sold, 40;
- Washington emancipates, 43;
- insurrections of, 82-92;
- why kept in bondage, 82;
- plot of the, in Virginia, 1800, 83;
- insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 1831, 87-89;
- the "Amistad" captives, 93-96;
- number of, in United States, 1830, 1840, 99;
- Jefferson Davis's speech on the right to hold, 102;
- the "Dred Scott" case, 114-119;
- law in regard to executions against the time of service of, 119, 121;
- Act for the introduction of, into Indiana, 120;
- persons emancipating, in Ill. required to give bonds, 122;
- fugitive, seek refuge in Canada, 125;
- rendition of fugitive, by the army, 244;
- failure of attempts to secure fugitive, from the army, 245, 246;
- orders in regard to harboring fugitive, in the army, 248, 249;
- contraband of war, 250;
- Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating, in Missouri, 255;
- disapproved by President Lincoln, 256;
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation, 257;
- rescinded, 258;
- order to impress, to build fortifications for Confederate States, 261;
- emancipation proclamations, 261-275;
- Secretary Seward's letter in regard to, 263;
- President Lincoln's proclamation, 267-269;
- second proclamation, 272;
- enlist in the service of the Union, 281;
- fugitive, offer their services in the army, 285, 287;
- Judge Advocate Holt's letter on the enlistment of, 307;
- the U. S. Government justified in the employment of, as soldiers, 310;
- at the battle of Port Hudson, 316, Milliken's Bend, 326;
- bravery at battle of Nashville, Tenn., 342;
- resolutions of the Confederate Congress against the military employment of, by the U. S. Government, 350, 351;
- Confederate army refuse to exchange captured, 357, 358;
- results of emancipation, 384-418;
- character of the Southern, 414;
- contributors to the erection of the first M. E. chapel in N. Y., 465;
- number of, imported from Africa, from the year 1500 to 1860, 544;
- number of fugitive and manumitted, in United States, 1850, 146;
- education of prohibited, 148, 158, 178-181;
- the tax on, in Delaware, added to the school fund for the education of white children only, 157;
- proceeds of the sale of, in Florida, added to the school fund, 158;
- conduct regulated, and preaching of the Gospel by, declared unlawful in Miss., 163;
- school for, at N. Y., 1704, 164;
- Society for Promoting the Manumission of, organized, 165;
- meetings of, forbidden, 180;
- fugitive-slave bill passed, 215;
- aid for the relief of, in Kansas, 216;
- John Brown's plan for freeing, 219;
- increase of, 228;
- number in the United States, 1860, 229;
- value of labor products of, 1850, 229;
- number of owners of, 230;
- Constitution of the Confederate States, 233;
- Lincoln favors the gradual emancipation of, 239.
- Smith, Abiel, founds school-house for Colored children, 162.
- Smith, Elizabeth, establishes school for Colored children, 212.
- Smith, James M., pupil of the N. Y. African free school, his address to Gen. Lafayette, 167.
- Smith, Rev., John C., organizes the First Colored Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. C., 190.
- Smith, Melancthon, mentioned, 166.
- Smith, Maj.-Gen., W. F., marches on Petersburg, 336;
- Smothers, Henry, establishes school for Colored children, 185.
- Snow, Benjamin, cause of the Snow riot at Washington, D. C., leaves for Canada, 188.
- South Carolina, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- Negro plot, 1822, 83;
- slave population, 1830, 99, 1840, 1850, 100;
- education of Negroes prohibited, 178-180;
- secedes from the Union, 232;
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, 257,
- rescinded, 258;
- regiment of loyal Negroes organized, 278;
- number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- exploits of the first volunteers, Negro regiment, 314;
- represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
- Negro population in excess of the white, 386;
- school population, 387;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- South Carolina Volunteers, First Regiment of Colored Troops, 304, 306.
- Southampton County, Va., Negro insurrection, 1831, 87-89;
- Southern States, churches, libraries, and newspapers in the, 230;
- number of troops furnished by, 300.
- Spencer, Peter, representative of Wilmington, in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Stafford, Col., Spencer H., speech to the 1st La. Regiment of Colored Troops before the battle of Port Hudson, 316.
- Stanton, Edwin M., Secretary of War, revokes order for the return of fugitive slaves, 246;
- Stearns, Maj. George L., secures aid for the relief of Kansas, 216;
- Stearns, Mrs. George L., personal recollections of John Brown, 215-221.
- Steedman, Col. James B., refuses to have his camp searched for fugitive slaves, 246;
- Stephens, Alexander H., delegate from Georgia, to the convention of the Confederate States, 232;
- Stewart, Rev. Austin, his book "Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman," mentioned, 59.
- Still, William, founder of the underground railroad organization, 58.
- Stokes, Richard, establishes school for Colored children, 209.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in different languages, 60;
- Strawbridge, Robert, founder of Methodism in Baltimore, 465.
- Strong, Brig.-Gen. George C., commands brigade at the assault on Fort Wagner, 329, 330;
- character of, 334.
- Strong, Henry, counsel for Prudence Crandall, 156.
- Summer, Charles, speech on "The Anti-Slavery Duties of the Whig Party," 44;
- Sylvester, Elisha, teacher of the first school for Colored children, 162.
- Syphax, William, establishes school for Colored children, 206.
- Tabbs, Michael, establishes school for Colored children, 210.
- Tallmadge, James, Jr., introduces bill in Congress against the introduction of slavery in Missouri, 14.
- Talmadge, Capt. Grier, first to decide slaves contraband of war, 252.
- Taney, Roger B., decides that the Negro is not a citizen, 114;
- opinion in the Dred Scott case, 116.
- Tanner, Alethia, purchases freedom of John F. Cook, 187.
- Tapsico, Jacob, representative of Phila., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Tappan, Arthur, secures the release of William Lloyd Garrison, 41;
- Tappan, Lewis, takes charge of the "Amistad" captives, 94.
- Taylor, John W., introduces bill in Congress prohibiting slavery in Arkansas, 18;
- in favor of the admission of Missouri, 20.
- Taylor, Rev. Marshall W., his ancestors, early life and struggles for an education, 469-471;
- Tennessee, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22, 1830, 99, 1840, 1850, 100;
- Texas, slave population, 1850, 100;
- Thomas, Alexander S., sketch of, 141-143.
- Thomas, Maj.-Gen. George H., approves the employment of Negroes as teamsters in the army, 260.
- Thomas, Jesse B., in favor of excluding slavery north and west of Missouri, 17.
- Thomas, Lorenzo, Adjt.-Gen., U. S. Army, speech in favor of enlisting Negroes, 289;
- Thomas, Brig.-Gen. Samuel, report on the freedmen, 400, 401.
- Thompson, Jacob, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 364.
- Thompson, Margaret, establishes school for Colored children, 206, 207.
- Townsend, E. D., Assistant Adj.-Gen., U. S. Army, order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 291;
- in reference to applicants for admission to the free military school, 296.
- Travis, Hark, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 87, 88.
- Trenton, N. J., opposed to the increase of slavery, 16; anti-slavery society formed, 20.
- Trinity Church, New York City, Negro slaves, communicants of, 164.
- Turner, Benjamin, mentioned, 85;
- Turner, H. M., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Turner, Nathaniel, Negro prophet, his birth and parentage, becomes preacher, description of his person, 85;
- mode of life, believes he is a prophet, his superstition, denounces conjuring and fortune-telling, regarded with reverence by the Negroes, acknowledged leader among the slaves, hired out as a slave, 86;
- claims to have seen visions, organizes plot for the uprising of the slaves, address to his fellow-conspirators, 87;
- leads the attack in Southampton County, Va., his confession of the plot, 88;
- trial and execution, remarkable prophecy of, 90;
- his character, 91.
- Tyler, Col. Erastus B., address to the people of Virginia, promising the return of fugitive slaves, 244.
- Underground Railroad Organization, the, 58;
- Underwood, J. R., Gen. Buell's letter to, on the return of fugitive slaves to their masters, 248.
- Union League Club, N. Y. City, raise Negro regiments, 292.
- Union Seminary, Washington, D. C., 189.
- United States, slave population, 1800, 1, 2;
- increase of slavery, 1;
- slave-trade secretly carried on, 2;
- American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from, to foreign markets, 3;
- importation of slaves prohibited, 8;
- slaves illegally imported to be forfeited, 8;
- slave population, 1810, 9;
- premium offered to informers of illegally imported Africans seized within the, circular-letter of the Navy Department to naval officers in regard to the importation of slaves, 10;
- President Monroe's message to Congress on the question of slavery, 12;
- appoint agents to direct the return of slaves to Africa, 13;
- resolutions in favor of restriction of slavery in the new States, 16;
- slave population, 1820, 22;
- Negroes serve in the War of 1812, 23-27;
- Gen. Jackson's proclamation calling for Negro troops, 25;
- terms of peace by the Commissioners of Ghent, 27;
- increase of the slave population, 33;
- first anti-slavery society established, 43;
- number of anti-slavery societies in, 1836, 44;
- Free Soil party organized, 46;
- comments of the press on the proposed steam-ship line between Africa and, 55-58;
- condition of the free Negroes in, 62, 67;
- slave population, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
- Franklin Pierce elected President, 107;
- number of fugitive and manumitted slaves, 1850, 146;
- increase of slaves, 228;
- slave population, 1860, value of slave labor products, 229;
- six States secede from, 232;
- Abraham Lincoln elected President, 239;
- slavery abolished, 377;
- Negro population, 1790-1880, 417;
- the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, 419;
- ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 420-422;
- Southern election methods and Northern sympathy, 517;
- decline of the Republican party, 518;
- Southern war claims, 519;
- the presidential campaign of 1876, 519, 520;
- the electoral count in Congress, 521;
- President Hayes's Southern policy, a failure, 522-524.
- United States Army, Negro troops serve in the War of 1812, 23-27;
- Negroes arrested, 244;
- orders in regard to fugitive slaves in, 245, 248, 249;
- Negroes ordered from, 250;
- Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating slaves, 255;
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation, 257;
- fortifications and earthworks built by Negroes, 262;
- condition of, 1862, 264;
- opposed to President Lincoln's proclamation, 269;
- Negroes as soldiers, 276-309;
- first regiment of Negroes organized, 278;
- Negro troops organized, fugitive slaves offer their services, 285, 287;
- order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
- number of Negroes in, 297, 299-301;
- services of Negroes in the Army of the Potomac, 335.
- United States Congress, proceedings on the memorial of Colored citizens of Philadelphia, against the slave-trade on the coast of Guinea, 2;
- American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from the United States to foreign markets, 3;
- action on the memorial of Indiana Territory for a modification of the ordinance of 1787, 4-8;
- importation of slaves prohibited, 8;
- slaves illegally imported, to be forfeited, 8;
- Act in regard to persons engaged in the slave-trade, 9;
- memorials against the slave-trade, fugitive-slave act amended, premium to informer for imported slaves seized within the United States, 10;
- President Monroe's message to, on the question of slavery, 12;
- debate on the bill to admit Missouri, 14;
- the Missouri controversy, 16-20;
- Garrison petitions, for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, 39;
- Sumner's speech on slavery, 46;
- bill establishing a line of war-steamers to the coast of Africa, suppression of the slave-trade, promotion of commerce, and the colonization of free Negroes, 53-55;
- organization of the 31st, 100;
- motion for the admission of California and New Mexico, 100, 101;
- has no authority to prohibit slavery, resolutions of Henry Clay for the adjustment of slavery, 101, of Senator Bell, 102;
- speech of Jefferson Davis in favor of slavery, 102;
- John C. Calhoun's speech, 103-105;
- fugitive-slave law, 1850, 106;
- bill to organize Nebraska Territory, 107;
- to repeal the Missouri compromise, speech of Stephen A. Douglass, 108;
- reply of Salmon P. Chase, 109;
- Act to organize the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, 110;
- opposed to civil and military interference with slaves, 244;
- conservative policy of, 252;
- passes Act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes, 263;
- Act to make an additional Article of War, 267;
- of 1860, 1862, 269;
- resolution in regard to the enlistment of Negroes, 279;
- action on the proposed amendment of the army appropriation bill to prohibit the enlistment of Negroes, 288;
- investigates the Fort Pillow massacre, 361-375;
- Act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, 379;
- methods of, for reconstructing the South, 381;
- Negroes in, 382;
- Act to incorporate the Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company, 403, amended, 407;
- appoint commissioners to close up the affairs of the bank, 411;
- authorized to enforce the thirteenth amendment, 419;
- recommends the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 420;
- action on the electoral count of 1876, 521.
- United States Navy, Negroes serve in the, 28-30; captures the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 64.
- Utah, slave population in the territory of, 100.
- Vallandingham, C. C., speech on the character of John Brown, 225.
- Vanlomen, Rev. Father, preceptor of Catholic seminary for Colored girls, 194.
- Vermont, number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 422.
- Vesey, Denmark, leader of the Negro plot in Charleston, S. C., 1822, 84.
- Vesey, Rev. William, rector of Trinity Church, New York, 164;
- his death, 165.
- Vicksburg, Miss., fortifications built by Negroes, 262;
- fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.
- Virginia, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
- increased, anti-slavery speeches in the Legislature, 33-35;
- Negro plot, 1800, 83;
- insurrection, 1831, 87-89;
- slave population, 1830, 99, 1840, 1850, 100;
- education of Negroes prohibited, 180, 181;
- Negro school population, 387;
- comparative statistics of education, 388;
- institutions for instruction of Negroes, 392, 394, 395;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Wade, Benjamin F., one of the committee of investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre, 361.
- Walls, James, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 366.
- War of 1812, Negro troops serve in the, 23-27.
- War of 1861, definition of the war issue, 228;
- States secede from the Union, 232;
- organization and Constitution of the Confederate States, 232, 233;
- extension of slavery the issue, 240;
- a white man's war, first call for troops, 241;
- rendition of fugitive slaves by the army, 244;
- order for the return of fugitive slaves revoked, proclamations protecting slave property, 246-248;
- orders in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, 248, 249;
- slaves contraband of war, 250;
- Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating slaves in Missouri, 255;
- President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, 267-269;
- called the war for the Negro, 269;
- President Lincoln's second emancipation proclamation, 272;
- employment of Negroes as soldiers, 276-309;
- President Lincoln's call for more troops, 287;
- order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
- number of Negroes in the army, 297, 299-301;
- expedition of the First S. C. Volunteers, Negro Regiment, into Ga. and Fla., 314;
- battle of Port Hudson, 320-323,
- memorable events of July, 1863, 328;
- attack on Fort Wagner, 329;
- battles fought by Negroes, in the Army of the Potomac, 335;
- their services at the siege of Petersburg, Va., 336-342;
- number of, engaged in the battles around Nashville, Tenn., 342;
- capture and treatment of Negro soldiers, 350-376;
- the Fort Pillow massacre, 360-376;
- reconstruction of the Confederate States, 377-383;
- end of the war, 377;
- provisional military government established, bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, 379.
- Ward, Rev. Samuel Ringgold, his book, "Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro," 59;
- Ward, T. M. D., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Washington, D. C., first Colored school established, 1807;
- Washington, Annie E., school for the education of Colored people, 209.
- Washington, George, emancipates his slaves, 43; called the illustrious Southerner, 105.
- Waugh, Nannie, establishes school for Colored children, destroyed by mob, 192.
- Wayman, A. W., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.
- Wears, I. C., delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 422.
- Webb, Capt., Thomas, one of the founders of the M. E. Church in New York, 465, 466.
- Webster, Daniel, author of memorial against the increase of slavery, 16.
- Webster, Thomas, representative of Phila. in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Welch, Jonathan A., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, 156.
- Wells, Nelson, establishes school for free children of color, 161.
- Wesley, John, founder of Methodism, 465, 466;
- opposed to slavery, 467.
- Wesleyan Seminary, Washington, D. C., 194.
- West Virginia, number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- Wetmore, Rev. James, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.
- Whig party, opposed to slavery, 44;
- White, Rev. Sampson, Colored Baptist minister, 476.
- Whiteworth, Abraham, member of the first American Methodist conference, 466.
- Whitfield, Rev. James, favors the education of Negroes, 160.
- Wilberforce University, report for 1876, 455, 456;
- Wilcox, Samuel T., sketch of, 140.
- Williams, Major, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, 362.
- Williams, Nelson, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 87.
- Williams, Richard, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Williams, Brig.-Gen. Thomas, order in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, 249.
- Wilmington, Del., African School Association established, 157.
- Wilson, Henry, introduces bill in Congress for the employment of Negroes as soldiers, 287;
- Gen. Thomas's letter to, on the efficiency of Negro soldiers, 344.
- Wilson's Wharf, Negro troops defeat Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee at the battle of, 335.
- Williamson, Edward, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.
- Wisconsin, number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
- Wool, Maj.-Gen. John E., orders the employment of Negroes in the army, 260;
- in command of troops during the draft riot at N. Y., 328.
- Wormley, Mary, establishes school for Colored children, 205.
- Wormley, William, erects school-house for Colored children, 205;
- threatened by mob, his death, 206.
- Wright, Richard, member of the first American Methodist conference, 466.
- Yearbry, Joseph, member of the first American Methodist conference, 466.
- Zane, Jonathan, bequest for the education of Colored people, 177.