Chapter XI: The Northern Negroes

Nominal Rights of Free Negroes in the Slave States.--Fugitive
Slaves seek Refuge in Canada.--Negroes petition against Taxation
without Representation.--A Law preventing Negroes from other
States from settling in Massachusetts.--Notice to Blacks,
Indians, and Mulattoes, warning them to leave the
Commonwealth.--The Rights and Privileges of the Negro
restricted.--Colored Men turn their Attention to the Education of
their own Race.--John V. De Grasse, the first Colored Man
admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society.--Prominent Colored
Men of New York and Philadelphia.--The Organization of the
African Methodist Episcopal and Colored Baptist
Churches.--Colored Men distinguish themselves in the
Pulpit.--Report to the Ohio Anti-slavery Society of Colored
People in Cincinnati in 1835.--Many purchase their
Freedom.--Henry Boyd, the Mechanic and Builder.--He becomes a
Successful Manufacturer in Cincinnati.--Samuel T. Wilcox, the
Grocer.--His Success in Business in Cincinnati.--Ball & Thomas,
the Photographers.--Colored People of Cincinnati evince a Desire
to take Care of themselves.--Lydia P. Mott establishes a Home for
Colored Orphans.--The Organization effected in 1844.--Its
Success.--Formation of a Colored Military Company called "The
Attucks Guards."--Emigration of Negroes to Liberia.--The Colored
People live down much Prejudice 125