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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;
predicts the abolition of slavery, 33;
condemns slavery, 35.

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;
advocates resolutions against school for Colored children in
Conn., 150;
secures enactment of a law abolishing the same, 152;
counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, 156.

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;
opposed to the restriction of slavery, 16;
slave population, 1820, 22, 1830, 1840, 99, 1850, 100;
slave laws retard the education of the Negroes, 159;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392.

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;
his sacrifices and work in the cause of emancipation, 38, 39;
visits William Lloyd Garrison, favors gradual emancipation, 40;
colonization of manumitted slaves, 51;
mentioned, 63, 73.

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;
takes charge of public Colored school in Pa., 189;
school for Colored children, 206.

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,
admitted, 18;
equal school privileges granted to Negroes, 160;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

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;
law preventing Negroes from other States from settling in, 127;
notice to Negroes, Indians, and Mulattoes warning them to
leave, 128;
list of the same, 128, 129;
first school for Colored children, 162;
number of Negro troops, furnished, 299;
captured Negro soldiers from, sold into slavery, 353.

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;
at James Island, 328, 335;
march to Morris Island, 328, 329, 332;
assault Fort Wagner, and plant the colors of the regiment on the
fort, 329;
Edward L. Pierce's letter describing the valor and losses of the
regiment, 331;
Gen. Strong commends the bravery of the regiment, 334.

Mattock, White, mentioned, 166.

May, Rev. Samuel J., in favor of education of Colored children in
Conn., 150, 151, 153, 157.

Memphis, Tenn., Negro troops raised for the Confederate
States, 277;
fort garrisoned by Negroes, 345.

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;
first American annual conference, 465, 466;
first Negro preacher in the, 466;
opposed to slavery, 467;
organized, interested in the welfare of the Negro, 468;
strength of the churches and Sunday-schools of the Colored
members in the, 469.

Michigan, slave population in the territory of, 1810, 9;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

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;
sketch of, 197-205.

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;
Negro troops recruited, 294;
engaged in the battle of, 342.

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;
pupils accused of being concerned in the Negro plot, his life
threatened, 164;
his death, 165.

Nebraska, bill introduced in Congress, to organize the territory
of, 107, 110;
number of troops furnished by, 300;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

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;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

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;
resolutions against the extension of slavery, 16;
anti-slavery society formed, Act for the gradual abolition of
slavery, 20;
slave population, 1820, 22;
Quakers emancipate their slaves, 38;
slave population, 1830, 1840, 99,
1850, 100;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299.

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;
slaves from Baltimore to, to be sold, 40;
Negro troops in the Confederate army at, 277;
regiments of free Negroes organized, 287;
forts at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.

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,
amended, 163, 164;
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;
list of the trustees, sketch of, school destroyed by fire, 166;
Lafayette's address to the scholars, 168.

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;
Colored schools abolished, education of Negroes prohibited, 170;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
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.

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;
lead the charge on the advance works, 338, 339.

Phelps, Brig.-Gen. J. W., report in favor of enlisting Negroes, 285;
applies for arms and clothing for Negro regiments, his policy in
regard to the employment of Negroes as soldiers, 286;
resigns from the army, 287.

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.

Phoebe _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;
establish school for Negroes, 174;
contribute money for the education of the latter, 198, 199.

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;
the presidential campaign of 1876, 519, 520.

Revels, Hiram R., succeeds Jefferson Davis in the U. S. Senate, 423.

Rhode Island, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9,
1820, 22;
grants equal privileges to Negroes, 178;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Richardson, Mrs. Henry, raises money for the purchase of the
freedom of Frederick Douglass, 431.

Richmond, Va., Negro plot, 1800, 83;
Negroes armed for the defence of, 278;
schools for the education of Negroes, 394-396.

"Richmond Enquirer" (The), mentioned, 89;
on the Negro insurrection of 1831, 90, 92.

"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;
his marriage, children of, 115;
sues for his freedom, 114-118.

Scott, Lieut.-Gen. Winfield, Gen. Butler's letter to, declaring
slaves contraband of war, 250;
nominated for President, 106;
defeated, 107.

Seward, William H., in favor of Union of the States, 230;
speeches against slavery, 230, 231;
letter to Gen. McClellan relative to fugitive slaves, 263.

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;
his death, 330, 333.

Shelton, Rev. Wallace, Colored Baptist minister, 503.

Sherman, Brig.-Gen. T. W., proclamation protecting slave
property, 246;
ordered to accept the services of all loyal persons to suppress
the war, 278, 281.

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;
commends the bravery of the Negro troops, 338, 340, 346.

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;
militia ordered out, 89;
number of killed, 91.

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;
correspondence with Gen. Hunter relative to Negro troops, 279, 280;
endorses the free military school for Negroes, 295;
commends the bravery of the Negro troops, 338;
his treatment of prisoners, in retaliation for cruel treatment
of captured Negroes, 354.

Stearns, Maj. George L., secures aid for the relief of Kansas, 216;
his connection with John Brown to free the slaves, 216-219;
superintends the recruiting of Negro troops, 294.

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;
employs Negroes as teamsters, 260;
commends the bravery of Negro troops, 342.

Stephens, Alexander H., delegate from Georgia, to the convention
of the Confederate States, 232;
chosen Vice-President of the Confederate States, 233;
in favor of State rights, 230;
speech in favor of slavery, 235.

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;
errors in her book, 546, 547.

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;
leader of the political abolition party, 45;
his reasons for not supporting Robert C. Winthrop, for Congress,
organizes the Free Soil party, speech in Congress on
"Freedom National, Slavery Sectional," 46;
views on slavery, 433.

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;
mentioned, 63, 64.

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;
teaches school in Kentucky, his experiences as a teacher, 472;
ordained, becomes a preacher and missionary teacher in Indiana
and Ohio, receives the title of Doctor of Divinity, his
influence and standing, 473, 474;
opposed to Colored conferences, 474.

Tennessee, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9,
1820, 22,
1830, 99,
1840, 1850, 100;
no discrimination in school law against color, 180;
order for the enlistment of Negroes, 290;
Negro troops recruited, 294;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393.

Texas, slave population, 1850, 100;
exiles free Negroes, treatment of slaves, no legislation in regard
to educating the Negro, 180;
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.

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;
order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
letter to Henry Wilson on the efficiency of Negro soldiers, 344.

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;
killed by Negro mob, 88, 89.

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;
its efficiency in freeing slaves, 59;
mentioned, 82.

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;
Milliken's Bend, 326, 327;
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;
mentioned, 79;
anti-slavery orator, 434.

Ward, T. M. D., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.

Washington, D. C., first Colored school established, 1807;
population of free persons, 182;
Colored schools, 182-213;
the Snow riot, 188;
Colored church organized, 190.

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;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the education of Negroes, 392;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Wetmore, Rev. James, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.

Whig party, opposed to slavery, 44;
Sumner's speech before the, 44;
convention of 1852, nominates Gen. Scott for the Presidency, 106;
defines its position on the slavery question, 107.

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;
list of the faculty, 460;
report and general statement, 462-464.

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.