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THE STORY OF THE NEGRO VOLUME II

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CONTENTS—Volume II

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Part III THE NEGRO AS A FREEMAN

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INDEX

Abbott, Dr. A. R., coloured graduate
Canadian University, II, 244.
Abolition, of slavery, in Canada, II,
239; in New York, 313; effect of , on
free coloured people, I, 200.
Acadians, in Louisiana, I, 122.
Adams, first slave on Calhoun plantation,
I, 150.
Adams, Lewis, responsible for location
of Tuskegee Institute, II, 28, 29;
on extent to which slaves were educated
in the trades, 63, 64.
Addison, Nancy, endows St. Francis
Academy, Baltimore, II, 346.
Africa, Coloured Baptist Mission in, II,
333; Ethiopian movement in, 334,
335; mission of A. M. E. Church in,
334; native method of smelting
ores in, I, 32; slave trade in, 95;
intermingling of races in, 22.
African Colony, Mobile, Ala., I, 103;
visited by members of Alabama
Coloured Medical Society, II, 138.
African, folk-tale of the origin of music,
II, 259.
African Free Schools, New York, II,
132.
African Law, I, 70–72.
African Literature, I, 72, 73.
African Kings, artistic sceptres, I, 47.
African Medicine, I, 67, 68.
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
founded 1790, I, 255; first general
conference of, Philadelphia, 1816,
255.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, started New York, 1800,
I, 255, 256; founded 1820, 256;
missionary of, to freedmen, II, 16,
17.
African Natives, at Tuskegee, I, 39.
African Native Markets, I, 49, 50.
African Natives, skill in hand-crafts of,
I, 46–49.
African Religion, I, 65.
African Story Tellers, I, 72.
African Students, at Oxford, Eng.,
II, 285.
African Union Methodist Protestant
Church, II, 345.
African Women, distrust white man's
civilisation, I, 61.
Afro-American Presbyterian Church,
see Presbyterian Church.
Agriculture, need of better in South
emphasised by former slave, I, 308.
Agriculture, number of Negroes
engaged in, II, 67, 68.
Aimes, H. H. S., slavery in Cuba, I, 120.
Alabama, Negro first settler in, II,
385; number of Negro banks in,
211; State Association of Coloured
Physicians of, 175.
Albany, O., Station of Underground
Railway in, II, 197.
Alarcon, Hernando de, Negro slave of,
in 1540 carries message from Rio
Grande to New Mexico, II, 385.
Aldridge, Ira, famous coloured actor,
I, 294; II, 282.
Allen, Bishop Richard, founder of
Free African Society, I, 253–255;
founder and first bishop of the
A. M. E. Church, 252–255; Abolitionist,
288; Associated with Lundy
in Haitian colonisation movement,
II, 237, 332.
Allen, Macon B., first coloured attorney
in the United States, II, 185.
Allen, William G., editor National
Watchman, coloured anti-slavery
newspaper, I, 294.

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Alexander, Archibald, influence of, on
Jack of Virginia, I, 267.
Alienated American, The, ante-bellum
coloured newspaper, I, 295.
Aloyons, Sister, convent name of Maria
Becraft, II, 136.
American Board, see American Missionary
Association.
American Missionary Association, work
among Negroes, I, 276; Freedmen's
Board of, II, 345.
American Mount Coffee School Association,
II, 329.
American Music, slave songs, the only,
II, 264.
American Negro, interest in Africa, I,
34; influence of, on African people,
I, 35; so-called savage instincts of,
I, 180.
Ames, General Adelbert, appoints
Negro alderman, Natchez, Miss.,
1866, II, 11.
Anderson, Charles W., United States
Internal Revenue Collector, I, 93.
Anderson, Osborne, Negro companion
of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, I,
175, 177.
Andrew, Bishop James Osgood, M.
E. Church South, referred to, I,
258.
Andrews, Gov. John A., of Massachusetts,
organises regiments of coloured
troops, I, 323; friend of George T.
Downing, II, 196.
Anthony, Mrs. Libbie C., officer
National Federation of Coloured
Women's Clubs, II, 329.
Anti-slavery Convention, first American,
only coloured man to sign
declarations of, I, 284.
Anti-slavery Convention, World's, in
England, 1846, attended by Negroes,
I, 283.
Anti-slavery, in Ohio and New England
compared, I, 239.
Anti-slavery Society, coloured lecturer
of, I, 307; fugitive slave shipped to,
217, 218; of Canada, report on
refugee slaves, II, 243, 244; rooms
of in Philadelphia, I, 215.
Arab Merchants, at Kano,
I, 22.
Arkansas, number of Negro banks
in, II, 211.
Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, experiment
with Indian boys, I, 125.
Arnett, Bishop Benjamin W., first
coloured man to represent a white
constituency in the Legislature, I,
238.
Artis, Matthew, Grand Army Post
named in honour of, I, 248.
Asbury, Bishop Francis, estimate of
Harry Hosier, I, 258.
Ashanti people, skilled in hand-crafts,
I, 46.
Ashmun, Jehudi, leading spirit in
foundation of Liberia, II, 235.
Askia, Mohammed, African ruler, I,
55, 56.
Assaults on women, see Rape.
Athens, O., station of Underground
Railway, II, 197.
Atkins, S. G., founds coloured normal
school at Winston-Salem, II, 252;
president of a realty company, 254.
Atlanta Exposition, first meeting of
coloured doctors at, 1895, II, 180.
Atlanta Riot, some results of, II, 107.
Atlanta University, founded Atlanta,
1867, II, 140.
Attucks, Crispus, in Boston Massacre,
I, 132.
Attwell, Mrs. Cordelia A. Jennings,
first coloured public school-teacher
in Philadelphia, II, 305–308.
Attwell, Ernest T., son of Rev. Joseph
S., Business Agent, Tuskegee Institute,
II, 307.
Attwell, Rev. Joseph S., coloured
Episcopal minister, II, 306, 307.
Attwood, L. K., coloured banker, Jackson,
Miss., II, 207, 208.
Augusta, Dr. Alexander T., coloured
army surgeon, I, 326.
Augusta, Ga., Lucy C. Laney, school
in, II, 308.
Avery Institute, ante-bellum coloured
school at Pittsburg, Pa., I, 295.
Avery, Negro insurance company,
Philadelphia, II, 156.
Avery, Elroy McKendree, on government
expenditures for Indians, I, 137.

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Avis, Captain John, jailer of John
Brown, I, 175.
Ayllon, Vasquez de, Spanish explorer,
Negro accompanies, I, 88, 89; constructs
first ship on Atlantic Coast
of North America with Negro labour,
II, 384.
Bacon, Rev. Thomas, establishes 1750
mission for poor white and Negro
children, II, 121.
Baganda, casuistic Christians, I, 28;
of Uganda, 28.
Bahima, related to ancient Egyptians,
I, 28.
Baker, Ray Stannard, statement of, in
regard to Negro progress, II, 398.
Balboa, Vasco, Nunez de, Negro companions
of, I, 87; finds race of black
men in Darian Districts, South
America, II, 384.
Baldwin, Maria L., coloured principal
of white school, Cambridge, Mass.,
II, 309, 310.
Ball, J. P., adopts Ella Sheppard, gives
her musical education, II, 268.
Ballagh, James, on white servitude in
Virginia, I, 110, 111; quoted on rights
of Negroes and Indians to hold white
servants, 115; on Jack of Virginia,
267, 268.
Ballot, coloured delegation calls on
President Andrew Johnson in regard
to, II, 18; right of Negroes to, in
Ohio, 134; restrictions upon, 370.
Ballot, see Politics.
Ballou, Hosea, coloured minister
preaches famous sermon in opposition
to Universalist teachings of,
II, 390.
Baltimore, coloured secret orders of,
II, 153, 154; homes of Negroes in,
254, 257; coloured high school of,
363; coloured ministers' association
of, 366; coloured Law and Order
League of, 358, 368, 369.
Baltimore Sun, comment on the work
of Coloured Law and Order League,
II, 364–368.
Bancroft, George, Historian, on religious
and race prejudice in the colonies,
I, 90; on population of Negroes at
time of New York "Negro Plot,"
94; on white servitude, 108–110.
Banks, Charles, Negro banker, Mound
Bayou, Miss., I, 24; referred to, II,
373.
Banks, deposits of Negroes in, Jackson,
Miss., II, 205.
Banks, General Nathaniel P., commands
coloured troops, I, 327; reconstruction
work in department
of, II, 9.
Banneker, Benjamin, assists in laying
out District of Columbia, II, 60;
achievements of, 60-62; tribute of
Thomas Jefferson to, 62.
Bantus, of South Africa, legion of,
II, 259.
Baptist Church, in relation to slaves,
I, 261, 262.
Baptist Home Mission Society, educational
work of, supported by Negroes,
II, 341.
Baptists, coloured, start school in Boston,
1806, II, 134; schools supported
by, 339; established publishing house
in Nashville, 1896, 340.
Barbary pirates, sufferings of white
slaves among, arouses sympathy for
Negro slaves, I, 280, 281.
Barbers, society of coloured in Baltimore,
II, 154.
Barrows, John, of Nashville, Tenn.,
referred to, II, 347.
Barth, Henry, travels of in North Central
Africa, I, 22; descriptions of
Kano, 53–56.
Bassett, Ebenezer D., principal of
Institute of Coloured Youth, Philadelphia,
II, 132.
Bassett, John Spencer, on displacement
of white servitude by Negro slavery,
I, 113; on right to enslave Negroes,
114, 115; on relations of master and
slave, 148, 149; on free Negro in
North Carolina, 201–203; on foundation
of First Methodist Church in
Fayetteville, N. C., 260; on social
equality, 275; sketches life of Lunsford
Lane, free Negro of North
Carolina, 296–309.

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Battle, C. C., aids Lunsford Lane to
avoid disabilities of free Negroes,
I, 300, 301.
Beaufort, Negro regiment organised in,
I, 322; state convention in, "without
distinction of colour," II, 14.
Becraft, Maria, principal first seminary
for coloured girls in Washington,
D.C., II, 135, 136.
Bedford, Mrs. Lucinda, of Nashville,
Tenn., referred to, II, 347.
Belgarnie, Mrs. Florence, letter to, concerning
Negro women causes organisation
of National Federation of
Coloured Women's Clubs, II, 329.
Bell, George, one of three coloured
men to build first schoolhouse for coloured
pupils in District of Columbia,
II, 134.
Bell, Philip A., early Negro editor, I,
293.
Benedict, The Moor, Saint, son of a
slave woman, I, 271.
Benezet, Anthony, abolitionist, starts
evening school for Negroes, Philadelphia,
1750, II, 131; teacher of
James Forten, I, 288.
Benford, Charles, held in trust as a
slave by a free Negro, I, 206.
Benin, bronze castings, of I, 47.
Benson, John J., successful Negro
farmer, II, 53.
Benson, William E., son of John J.,
II, 53.
Berea College, founded 1856, II, 140;
exclusion of Negroes from, 347, 348.
Berean Building and Loan Association,
II, 257.
Berean Educational Conference, II,
349.
Berean Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia,
social work of, II, 349.
Berean Seaside Conference, II, 349.
Berean Seaside Home, Asbury Park,
II, 349.
Berean Trades' Association of Philadelphia,
II, 349.
Bermudas, Indians sold as slaves to,
I, 130.
Berry, E. C, successful coloured hotel
keeper, II, 197, 198.
Bethune, Thomas Greene, blind Tom,
musical prodigy, sketch of, II, 271–
276.
Beverly, Robert, slave of a corporation,
II, 60.
Bibb, Henry, fugitive slave, forms organisation
to purchase home for fugitive
slaves in Canada, II, 242.
Bible, one book slaves knew, II, 3;
desire to read, among Negroes, 125;
Negro slaves interpretation of, 261.
Biddle Alley, coloured quarter, Baltimore,
Md., II, 360.
Biddle University, Charleston, N. C.,
1867, II, 140.
"Big House," the centre of slaves'
world, I, 8.
Binga, Jesse, coloured banker in
Chicago, II, 223.
Birmingham, Ala., Negroes employed
in and near, II, 225.
Birney, James G., takes slaves North
to freedom, I, 146, 240.
Black Code, in Ohio, Illinois and
Indiana, II, 19.
Black Patti, see Madam Sissieretta
Jones.
Black Swan, see Elizabeth Taylor
Greenfield.
Blair, Henry, first Negro inventor, II,
77.
"Blind Tom," story of, II, 271–276.
Blue, Thomas F., librarian coloured
library, Louisville, Ky., II, 354.
Boaz, Dr. Franz, art of smelting ores
by Africans, I, 32; on race prejudice,
42, 43; on artistic industries
of Africa, 47; on agriculture of
Africans, 50; on native African
culture, 58, 59; on African law,
71; on character of African states,
74, 75.
Bode, Louis, endows St. Francis Academy,
Baltimore, II, 346.
Boley, Negro town in Oklohoma, II,
248–251.
Bond, Rev. James, coloured trustee
of Berea College, II, 348.
Bond Servants, first sent out by London
Company, I, 110; number
imported to Virginia, 112.

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Bonsal, Stephen, account of Twenty-fourth
Regiment coloured regulars
at Siboney, Cuba, II, 391.
Boston, Mass., separate schools for
Negroes in, II, 134.
Boston Slave Market, Phillis Wheatley,
purchased in, II, 286.
Boyd, Rev. R. H., founder National
Baptist Publishing Co., II, 340.
Boyd, Robert Fulton, coloured physician
and surgeon, II, 175; aids in establishing
coloured National Medical
Association, II, 180.
Bower, Charity, fortunes and vicissitudes
of slave life illustrated by, I,
167–169.
Bowler, Jack, leader of slave insurrection,
Virginia, 1800, I, 172, 173.
Boylan, William, friend of Lunsford
Lane, I, 305.
Bradley, James, former slave testifies
in Lane Seminary debate on slavery,
I, 290.
Bragg, Fellow, free Negro, North Carolina,
I, 202.
Braithwaite, William Stanley, coloured
poet, II, 289.
Brandt, Captain, Indian, holder of
Negro slaves, II, 239.
"Brierfield," plantation of Jefferson
Davis, I, 153, 156.
Bristol, Eng., former stronghold of
white slave trade, I, 111.
Brodie, John, referred to, II, 175.
Brooks, R. B., director of coloured
bank, II, 223.
Brothers of Friendship, Negro secret
order, property owned by, II, 156.
Brown, Andrew Jackson, vice-president
coloured bank, II, 254.
Brown, Dr. Arthur M., conductor of
coloured infirmary, II, 172.
"Brown Fellowship Society," organisation
of Free Negroes of Charleston,
S. C., I, 210, 211.
Brown, Henry Box, remarkable escape
from slavery, I, 217, 218, 282.
Brown, Henry E., first coloured Y. M.
C. A. secretary, II, 352.
Brown, John, Negroes with at Harper's
Ferry, I, 175; rescue of Missouri
slaves, 286; bust of, by coloured
sculptress, II, 293.
Brown, J. C., free Negro, organises a
society for colonisation in Canada,
I, 226.
Brown, John M., one of delegation to
President Johnson in interests of
Negro citizenship, II, 18.
Brown, William Wells, agent Underground
Railway, I, 282; sketch of
282, 283; assists in raising coloured
troops, 323; Negro anti-slavery agitator,
II, 83.
Browne, Hugh M., principal Institute
for Coloured Youth, Cheney, Pa.,
II, 305.
Browne, Rev. William Washington,
founder True Reformers, I, 24, II,
163; organises True Reformers'
Bank, 216; referred to, 226.
Bruce, Blanche K., political leader of
Reconstruction period, II, 23; sketch
of, 23, 24.
Bruce, Roscoe Conklin, son of Blanche
K., II, 24.
Bryan, Andrew, founder of Negro
Baptist church, Savannah, I, 265,
266.
Buffaloes, Benevolent Order of, coloured,
II, 148.
Bugg, Dr. J. H., director coloured
bank, Savannah, II, 223.
Bukerè', Doalu, inventor of Vei alphabet,
I, 72, and footnote.
Bunker Hill, Negroes in battle of, I,
310, 314; in Trumbull's painting,
314.
Burleigh, Harry T., coloured concert
singer, II, 281.
Burrell, W. P., account of founding
of True Reformers' Bank, II, 215,
216.
Burroughs, George L., agent Underground
Railway, I, 286.
Burwell, Dr, L. L., conductor of coloured
infirmary, II, 172.
Bush, John E., founder with Chester
W. Keats, of the Mosaic Templars
of America, II, 162.
Bushman, a student at Tuskegee, I,
25; colour of, 23, 24.

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Bushmen, not black, I, 18; low
estimate of by other African peoples,
19; not Negroes; 25, 26.
Business League, National Negro,
meetings of in Boston and in New
York, II, 229.
Butler, Gen. Benjamin Franklin, organises
first coloured regiment, New
Orleans, I, 321, 322; receives General
Weitzel's letter objecting to
Negro troops, 331; issues first proclamation
of emancipation, II, 6;
in New Orleans, 8, 9.
Buxton, Ia., work of coloured Y. M.
C. A. in, II, 352.
Buxton, Ontario, Canada, settled by
freedmen from Louisiana, II, 241,
242.
Buxton, Thomas Foxwell, refugee
colony in Canada named after, II,
241.
Cable, George W., account of white
woman sold as slave from Louisiana,
I, 122; on Creole slave songs, II, 276.
Cain, Bishop Richard H., runs Reconstruction
newspaper, II, 24; coloured
congressman, 25.
Calhoun, Patrick, father of John C.,
becomes a slave-owner, I, 149, 150.
Calhoun, John C., early life on plantation,
I, 149–152; impression of
speeches on Lunsford Lane, I, 296.
Calvin, Louis, coloured minister saves
white men from execution for death
of, II, 389.
Calvin Township, Cass County, Mich.,
settled by Saunders' Freedmen, I,
246; condition of coloured settlers of,
246–249.
Cambridge, Mass., coloured woman
principal of school in, II, 309.
Campbell, Bishop Jabez B., referred
to, II, 347.
Canaan, New Hampshire, seat of Noyes
Academy for Negroes, II, 130.
Canada, settlements of fugitive slaves in,
I, 227; refuge for freedmen in, II,
238; becomes known as free soil to
slaves, 239, 240.
Cape Palmas, referred to, I, 273.
Cape to Cairo Railway, constructed
by native African labour, I, 30.
Carib Indians, enslavement of, I, 129.
Cary, Lott, extraordinary history of,
II, 234–236; first Negro missionary
to Liberia, 333; referred to, 343.
Carney, Sergt. William H., sketch of,
I, 328–330.
Carr, J. S., referred to, II, 37.
Carroll, Henry King, church statistics
of, I, 276, 277.
Carroll, Richard, on personal relations
of whites and Negroes, II, 36, 37.
Carter, Granville, successful coloured
book dealer, Greenville, Miss., II,
202, 203.
Carter, John, provides for emancipated
slaves, I, 197.
Cass County, Mich., settled by freedmen
and fugitive slaves, I, 245.
Caste System, growth of in United
States, I, 199.
Cate, Isaac, retired capitalist, Baltimore,
supports work of Coloured
Law and Order League, II, 362.
Catholic, classed with Indians and
Negroes, I, 91.
Catholic Church, schools conducted by,
I, 271, 272; II, 346.
Catto, Octavius V., coloured schoolmaster
killed in Philadelphia riot,
II, 306.
Century Magazine, article of, on Negro
homes, quoted, II, 255; poem by
James W. Johnson, quoted from,
265.
Chain-gang, Negro children in, II, 110.
Chambersburg, Frederick Douglass's
last interview with John Brown at,
I, 176.
Charles, John, early Negro preacher in
North Carolina, I, 260.
Charleston, Indian slaves bought and
sold in, I, 129; colony of "free persons
of colour in," 205; Negro population
of in 1860, 206; Negro
crime in, II, 86; clandestine schools
in, 123.
Chatham Convention, I, 287.
Chatelain, Heli, African folk tales collected
by, I, 73.

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Chavis, John, first Negro educated
at Princeton, I, 274; school for
whites of, in North Carolina, 274,
275.
Cheatham, H. P., coloured congressman,
II, 25.
Cherokees, Indian slave-owners of
Georgia, I, 133.
Chesnutt, Charles W., coloured novelist,
I, 203; descended from free
Negroes of North Carolina, II, 289,
290.
Chew, Benjamin, master of Richard
Alien, I, 253.
Cheyney, Pa., industrial school for
Negroes in, II, 132.
Chicago, Negro crime in, II, 86; Provident
Hospital, coloured, in, II,
174.
Chickasaws, conspiracy of with slaves
of New Orleans, I, 133.
Chretien, Paul, wealthy Creole Negro,
I, 208.
Christianity, relation of to slavery, I,
115, 116, 238.
Christian League, organisation of by
ex-Gov. Northen, II, 107, 108.
Christmas in Virginia, II, 57.
Church, Negro, the richest, in United
States, 307.
Church Institute, for Negroes, of Protestant
Episcopal Church, II, 345.
Churches, Negro, amounts collected
annually by, for education, 342,
343.
Churchill, Winston, the Kingdom of
Uganda, described by, I, 76, 77.
Cincinnati, Negro refugees in, I, 227;
Negro crime in, II, 86; High School
for Negroes in, 133.
Civic League, organisation of in Altanta
II, 107, 108.
Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C.,
II, 140.
Clark, Col. Elijah, referred to, I,
316.
Clark, William, accompanied by Negro
servant in exploration of Oregon
Country, II, 385.
Clay, Cassius M., publishes anti-slavery
paper in Kentucky, I, 193.
Cleopatra, death of, represented by
coloured sculptress, II, 293.
Cleveland, President Grover, effect of
appointment on a Negro politician,
II, 208.
Clinton, Bishop George W., reminiscences
of Reconstruction, II, 38, 39.
Clinton, Bishop I. C., spiritual adviser
of former masses, II, 39.
Clinton, Sir Henry, invites Negro to
enlist in King's Army, I, 319.
Coffin, Levi, Quaker, abolitionist,
President Underground Railway, I,
240.
Coke, Bishop Thomas, Negro companion
of, I, 257.
Cole, Bob, Negro comedian, II, 281.
Coleman, organiser of coloured cotton-mill
company, II, 76, 77.
Coleridge-Taylor, S., Negro composer,
I, 13.
Colleges, for Negroes, II, 140.
Collins, Captain Jack, free Negro, I, 209.
Collins, Winfield N., on domestic slave
trade, I, 96, 98; on kidnapping
free Negroes, I, 196, 197.
Colonisation, African, interest of Virginia
Negroes in, II, 235.
Colonisation, see Liberia.
Colour line, difficulty of defining, I, 21;
II, 393, 394.
Coloured American, Ante-bellum coloured
newspaper, I, 293.
Coloured Citizen, Ante-bellum newspaper,
I, 204.
Coloured Conservators, meets at Nashville,
Tenn., adopts resolutions, II,
15, 16.
Coloured High School, record of the
Baltimore, II, 363.
Coloured Library, of Louisville, Ky.,
promoted by coloured Y. M. C. A.,
II, 354.
Coloured Methodist Church organised,
1866, I, 256; schools supported by,
II, 344.
Coloured Methodists, of Mississippi,
money raised by, for support of
schools, II, 345.
Coloured Patriots of the Revolution,
the, I, 310.

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Coloured Women's Clubs, national conference
of in Boston, 1895, II, 329;
names of, 326; first officers of, 329;
work of the state federations of, 330.
Coloured Women, see Women, Negro.
Colquhoun, Archibald, desire of Africans
for education, referred to, I,
80, 81.
Columbia Heights, coloured suburb
of Winston-Salem, N. C., II, 254.
Columbia University, New York, Zulu
takes oratorical honors at, II, 285.
Columbian Orator, The, Frederick
Douglass, gets first notion of freedom
from, I, 184.
Concklin, Seth, loses life in attempt to
rescue slave family, I, 221.
Congregational Churches, coloured, in
South, I, 276; First, of Atlanta, II,
107.
Connecticut, rights of Free Negroes in,
I, 199.
Continental Army, number of Negroes
on rolls of, I, 312.
"Contraband of War," effect of phrase
on condition of slaves, II, 6.
Convention, Coloured, South Carolina,
1865, II, 14, 15; national, at Syracuse,
1864, 17; at Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., 1863, 17; at Philadelphia, 1831,
17; constitutional of 1867, 18.
Convict Lease System, effect of, in
Georgia, II, 100, 101.
Cook, Elijah, successful undertaker,
coloured, II, 200.
Cook, George F. T., takes up work of
father, John F., II, 135.
Cook, John F., coloured teacher in
District of Columbia, II, 135; member
of delegation which urged President
Johnson to grant Negroes
citizenship, II, 18.
Coon, Charles L., superintendent of
schools, Wilson, N. C., on the cost
of public schools in the South for
Negroes, II, 143–146.
Copeland, John A., Negro companion
of John Brown at Harper's Ferry,
I, 175, 176.
Coppin, Mrs, Fanny Jackson, coloured
teacher, II, 305.
Coppin, Bishop Levi J., referred to
II, 305.
Corn Shucking Bees, I, 159, 160.
Cornish, Rev. Samuel, helps starts
first Negro newspaper, I, 292; financial
agent for coloured industrial
school, 1831, II, 129, 130.
Cornwallis, Lord Charles, invites
Negroes to join King's army, I, 319.
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de, Spanish
explorer, Negroes accompany,
I, 88.
Cortez, Fernando, Negro slaves accompany
to Mexico, II, 384.
Costin, Louisa Park, coloured teacher,
Washington, D. C., II, 135, 305.
Costin, Martha, Educational worker
in Washington, D. C., II, 305.
Costin, William, Washington, D. C.,
II, 135.
Cottin gin, effect of invention of, on
slave labour, II, 122.
Cotton growing, in Africa, Tuskegee
students as teachers of, I, 37, 38.
Cottrell, Bishop Elias, founder of Mississippi
Theological and Industrial
College, II, 344, 345.
Country Week Society, Boston, Mass.,
coloured woman a member of, II,
327.
Covent Garden, London, Eng., first
appearance of Negro actor in, II,
282.
Covington, Ga., Dinah Pace's school
in, II, 309.
Craft, Ellen, remarkable escape of
from slavery, I, 227–229.
Craft, Henry K., grandson of William
and Ellen, I, 231.
Craft, William, remarkable escape
from slavery of, I, 227–229; attempt
to kidnap, 230; later history of, 231.
Crandall, Prudence, prosecution for
conducting Negro school, Canterbury,
Conn., I, 200, II, 129.
Creole slave songs, described by
George W. Cable, II, 276.
Creeks, Indian slave owners of Alabama,
I, 133.
Crime, Negro statistics of, II, 85; maximum
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Southern states, 87, 88; method of
enumeration, 93–95; striking changes
in statistics of, 95; in South Atlantic
and Western states, 95; in Northern
and Southern states, 96, 97;
length of sentence in Northern and
Southern states, 96; profits of, under
convict lease system, 100; per cent.
of, compared with seven nationalities
in United States, 103; effect of education
on, 363, 364; in Mound Bayou,
372, 373.
Criminal, juvenile Negro, II, 99; care
of, in Birmingham, Ala., 110–113.
Cross of Leopold, conferred upon
Negro actor, II, 282.
Crowther, Samuel, native African missionary,
II, 336.
Crucifixion, Negro insurance company,
Philadelphia, II, 156.
Crum, William D., former collector of
customs, Charleston, S. C., I, 230,
231.
Crummell, Alexander, coloured episcopal
minister, I, 272, 273; referred
to, II, 195, 196.
Crummell, Boston, assists in starting
first Negro newspaper in New
York, I, 292; referred to, II, 195.
Cuffe, Paul, Negro colonisationist, I,
132.
Cummings, Harry S., member of Baltimore
city council, II, 258.
Curry, Rev. A. B., on character of
Negro, I, 164, 165.
Curtis, Bishop, coloured commander
Grand Army Post, I, 248.
Curtis, Dr. Austin Maurice, coloured
physician and surgeon, II. 175,
180.
Cutler, James Elbert, on lynching of
Negro, II, 89.
Dabney, Austin, coloured soldier of
Revolutionary war, I, 316–318.
Daggett, A. D. Lieut. Col., 25th Regiment,
statement of in regard to 25th
Regiment, coloured regulars at El
Caney, Cuba, II, 390.
Daggett, David, decision of in Prudence
Crandall case, I, 199, 200.
Dailey, Sam, sets aside part of farm for
Negro reform school, II, 113.
Dahomey, slaves from uplands of, I,
103, 104.
Dance Hall, work of coloured men's
club in abolishing in Savannah, II,
351.
Darian District of South America, race
of black men of, II, 384.
Davis, E. M. aids in escape of Henry
Box Brown, I, 218.
Davis, Jefferson, slave of, invents a
ship propeller, II, 78; relations of
master and slave on plantation of,
I, 153–157; seat of United States
Senate occupied by Negro, II, 12.
Davis, Joseph, brother of Jefferson, I,
155, 156; former owner of Isaiah T.
Montgomery, II, 246.
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, reference to
Benjamin Montgomery in memoirs
of, I, 155.
Davis, Rev. Samuel, letter of, 1747, on
"the poor neglected Negroes," II,
119, 120.
Davis, Senator Garrett, opposes Fredmen's
Bureau, II, 13.
Dawn, settlement of fugitive slaves,
Dresden, Ontario, Canada, II, 240,
243.
Day, William Howard, coloured antislavery
agitator, I, 295.
Dayton, Ohio, Daniel Flickinger, Wilberforce
educated in, II, 337; Paul
Laurence Dunbar born in, II, 338.
Dean, Jennie, founder of industrial
school, II, 309.
De Baptiste, George, agent Underground
Railway, I, 286.
Dédé, Edward, coloured musical director
in Bordeaux, France, II, 177.
De Grasse, Dr. John V., first Negro
member of Massachusetts Medical
society, II, 277.
Delany, Martin R., coloured officer
Federal Army, I, 326; anti-slavery
agitator, 287, 288.
DeLarge, Robert C., coloured congressman,
II, 11.
Delaware, rights of Free Negroes in, I,
199.

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Denmark, South Carolina, seat of
Voorhees Industrial School, II, 183,
184.
Derham, James, first Negro physician,
II, 176, 177.
Derrick, Bishop William B., sailor in
Civil War, I, 324.
De Soto, Fernando, Negroes accompany,
I, 88.
Deveaux, John H., collector of customs,
Port of Savannah, II, 222.
Dickinson, William, conveys a slave
in trust to Quaker society, I, 243.
Dickson, Moses, founder of Knights
and Daughters of Tabor, II,
158–160.
Dillon, Dr. Sadie, first woman granted
license to practice medicine in Alabama,
II, 171.
Dismal Swamp, scene of Nat Turner's
insurrection, I, 174.
District of Columbia, Negro crime in,
II, 86.
Dober, Leonard, Moravian missionary
sells self into bondage, I, 119.
Dolarson, George, agent Underground
Railway, I, 286.
Dooley, Normal and Industrial Instistute,
Alabama, gift to, II, 347.
Dossen, J. J., vice-president Liberia,
I, 144, 145.
Dorsette, Dr. Cornelius Nathaniel,
first Negro physician in Montgomery,
Ala., II, 171.
Douglass, Frederick, fugitive slave,
I, 8; Indian ancestry of, 132;
interview with John Brown at
Chambersburg, 176; first notions
of freedom of, 184; opposed to emmigration
of Negroes from the South,
186; member of Free Negro society,
Baltimore, 212; escape from slavery,
223; Underground Station Agent,
223, 283; editor, North Star, 293;
leader of Negro anti-slavery agitation,
295; assists in raising coloured
troops 323; sons enlist as soldiers,
323; letter of, demanding political
and military equality for Negro, II,
18; member of coloured delegation
to President Johnson urging grant
of Negro citizenship, 18; estimate
of Robert Brown Elliott, 25; antislavery
agitator, 83; describes how
he learned to read, 127–129.
Douglass, H. Ford, coloured antislavery
agitator, I, 295.
Dowd, Jerome, sociological studies of
Africa quoted, I, 28; on instability
of West African Kingdom, 75.
Downing, George T., noted Negro
caterer, I, 294; member of coloured
delegation to President Johnson,
urging grant of citizenship to Negro,
II, 18; friend of prominent abolitionists,
196.
Downing, Thomas, early coloured
caterer, New York, II, 196.
Druid Hill, coloured district of Baltimore,
Md., II, 257; invasion of by
Negroes, 367.
Drummond, Henry, on native labour,
Central Africa, I, 30.
DuBois, W. E. Burghardt, on slave
trade, I, 95; on Freedmen's Bureau,
II, 13; on Negro property owning,
256.
Dubuclet, coloured physician and
musician in France, II, 276.
Duke, Ball, assists Negro hospital,
Durham, N. C., II, 38.
Duke, James B., referred to, II, 38.
Dumas, Alexander, Negro blood of,
II, 289.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, poet, I, 25;
interpretation of Negro life, II, 290–
292; referred to, 338.
Dunlop, Alexander, member of coloured
delegation urging President
Johnson to grant Negro citizenship,
II, 18.
Dunmore, Lord, Governor of Virginia,
offers freedom to Negroes joining
King's army, I, 319.
Dunn, J. P., Jr., statement concerning
Indian cannibalism, I, 136.
East Baltimore Mental Improvement
Society, society of Free Negroes, I,
212.
Ecumenical Council, London, Joseph
C. Price delegate to, II, 343.

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Education, conference for Southern,
cost of Negro education discussed
there, II, 143.
Education, Negro, Colonel Henry
Waterson speaks in interests of, II,
114; work of Methodist Church for,
121; restrictions upon, 122, 123;
special privileges granted Negroes,
124; opposition to in the North,
129; in Ohio, 133; in Massachusetts,
134; Northern aid to, 139; sacrifices
of Negroes for, 141; relative cost of,
and of white, 142; women work for,
305; amount collected for, by the
A. M. E. Church, 342; amount collected
for, in 1907 by A. M. E. Zion
Church 342; economic effect on
Negro, 363 364.
Education, Negro, see Schools.
Education of emancipated slaves, II,
136–140.
Education of native Africans in cotton
growing, I, 37–39.
Education, restrictions on, during
slavery, II, 118.
Educational day of A. M. E. Church, II,
343.
Edwards, Henry Stillwell, on progress
of the Negro, II, 255.
Eggleston, Rev. E. F., pastor Grace
Presbyterian Union Church, Baltimore,
Md., II, 360.
Elgin Settlement, of fugitive slaves at
Buxton, Ontario, Canada, II, 241.
Elks, Improved Benevolent and Protective
Order of, coloured, II, 148.
Ellicott, George, friend and benefactor
of Benjamin Banneker, II, 61.
Elliott, Robert Brown, coloured congressman,
II, 24, 25.
Emancipation, agitation begun for in
Pennsylvania, I, 280; of slaves in
Rhode Island, 1788, I, 313.
Emancipation Proclamation, limited
in its application, II, 6.
Emigrant Aid Society, Amos A. Lawrence
member of, I, 315.
Emigration office, Haitian, at Baltimore,
II, 237.
Enterprise Academy, ante-bellum coloured
school at Albany, O., II, 197.
Estevan, Negro explorer, discovers the
Zuni Indians, II, 385.
Ethiopian Church, II, 334, 335.
Ethiopian Movement, II, 334, 335.
Evans, Henry, founder of Methodist
Church in Fayetteville, N. C., I, 260,
261.
Evans, Phillip, agent Underground
Railway, I, 286.
Evans, Dr. Matilda A., founder of
coloured hospital, Orangeburg, S. C.,
II, 175.
Exodus, Negro, to Kansas, I, 186.
Fairbank, Calvin, slave abductor, I,
221, foot-note.
Fanti People, customary law of, I, 70.
Farmers' Improvement Association, of
Texas, II, 378–380.
Farmers' Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala.,
II, 192.
Fayetteville, N. C., founding of
Methodist Church in, I, 260, 261.
Fee, Rev. John G., establishes Berea
College, II, 140.
Feagin, Judge N. B., establishes voluntary
probation system for coloured
juvenile offenders, II, 110–113.
Fellani, ruling class at Kano, I, 22.
Fellani, see Fuhlas.
Ferdinand and Isabella, Letter of, to
Juan de Valladolid, coloured, I, 86,
87.
Ferguson, Samuel David, Bishop of
Cape Palmas, I, 273.
Fetishism, a system of thought, I, 66,
67.
Fields, W. R., vice-president Coloured
Bank, II, 222.
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, First Regiment
of Coloured Troops raised in
the North, I, 328, 329.
Fisk University, founded at Nashville,
Tenn., 1866, II, 140; gifts to by
Negroes, II, 347.
Flickinger, Daniel, missionary to West
Coast, Africa, II, 337.
Florida, cost of Negro education in, II,
143; Everglades of, home of Afro-Indians,
I, 133; slave raiders visit
coast of, 129.

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Folk tales of Angola, I, 73.
Foresters, ancient order of, II, 148.
Fort Wagner, Negroes' part in battle
of, I, 328.
Forten, James, Negro abolitionist, I,
288, 289; sketch of, 290.
Fortune, T. Thomas, Seminole ancestors,
I, 132.
Franklin, Benjamin, statue of, inspires
Edmonia Lewis, II, 292.
Franklin College, free Negro sends
a white boy through, I, 318.
Franklin, Nicholas, one of three
Negroes to build first coloured
schoolhouse in District of Columbia,
II, 134.
Frazier, Henry, former master of Maggie
Porter, II, 270.
Frazier, James, slave of, freed in
Canada on writ of habeas corpus,
II, 239.
Freeman, Ralph, anti-bellum Negro
preacher, I, 268, 269.
Free African Society, founded in
Philadelphia, 1787, I, 254.
Free Coloured Women, sisters of the
Holy Family, founded among, I, 272.
Free Negroes, increase of from 1790
to 1860, I, 195; number of, in Maryland,
196; re-enslaved, 196, 197;
rights of, in English colonies, 198,
199; restrictions upon, 200; of
North Carolina, 201; property owned
by, in Charleston, S. C., 205; societies
formed among, 210; mutual
benefit associations among, permitted
in Maryland, 213; arrested
for assembling in Washington, D. C.,
213; number engaged in work of
Underground Railway, 282; first
convention of in 1817, 289; of
Raleigh, N. C., 299; regiment in
Confederate army, 320; regiment
of, organised by General Butler, 321;
in Massachusetts in 1777, 311;
enlist in Virginia regiments in Revolutionary
War, 312; of New Orleans,
seek to obtain part in the Government,
II, 14; rights of, in Northern
states in 1866, 19; restrictions upon,
83; number of, attending school in
Maryland in 1860, 124; educational
advantages of Creole, 123, 124;
methods of obtaining education, 124,
125; business enterprises of, in the
North, 195, 196; total value of
property owned by, 209; help to
found Liberia, 235; of North Carolina,
Charles W. Chesnutt descended
from, 289.
Freedman, relations with former master,
II, 39.
Freedmantown, coloured quarter of
Oakland, Texas, II, 379.
Freedmen, colony, in Haiti, II, 237,
238; difficulties in dealing with,
II. 7; education of, 136–140;
from Louisiana, settled at Buxton,
Ontario, Canada, 241.
Freedmen's Aid Society, Negroes contribute
to education through, II, 345,
Freedmen's Bank, history of, II, 214;
effect of failure of, on freedmen, 215.
Freedmen's Bureau, organisation of,
II, 9–13; coloured men employed
by, 10; bounties paid to Negro
soldiers by, 41.
Freedom's Journal, first coloured newspaper,
I, 292.
Freedmen's Hospital, Washington,
D. C., II, 174; Dr. Charles B.
Purvis, surgeon-in-chief of, I, 290.
Friends, of North Carolina, slavery
among, I, 240; German, protest
against slavery in 1696, 242; progress
of anti-slavery sentiment among, 242,
243; efforts of, to free their slaves,
243, 244; settlement of, in Cass
County, Mich., refuge for runaway
slaves, 245, 246; first schools for
Negroes, established by, 280; aid to
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, by
member of, II, 277, 278.
Fugitive Slaves, shipped as express
package, I, 218.
Fugitive Slaves, in Ohio, I, 240; names
of distinguished, II, 83; settlements
of in Canada, 240; names of,
240.
Fugitive Slave Law, effect of, in Ohio,
I, 226, 227; increases number of fugitives
in Canada, II, 240.

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Fulah, compared with Hausas, I, 54.
Fuller, James C., collects funds in
England for refugees in Canada, II,
243.
Gabriel, leader of slave insurrection,
1800, I, 172, 173.
Gaines, John I., leads coloured people,
Cincinnati, in struggle for equitable
division of school funds, II, 133.
Galilean Fisherman, Grand United
Order of, II, 148; amount in death
claims by, 162; Bank of Grand
United Order of, Hampton, Virginia,
219.
Gambia, price of slaves in, I, 60.
Gant, Wheeling, referred to, II, 347.
Garfield, President James A., appoints
Blanche K. Bruce Registrar of the
Treasury, II, 23, 24; effect of election
of, upon coloured people of Alabama,
II, 190.
Garnet, Henry Highland, career of,
I, 294, 295.
Garrett, noted anti-slavery Quaker,
I, 294; becomes an abolitionist, I,
192.
Garrison, William Lloyd, meeting of
with Benjamin Lundy, I, 192, reference
of, to James Fort, 289; speaks
at funeral of William C. Nell, 295;
encourages Edmonia Lewis to become
a sculptress, II, 293; referred to, 327.
Gayarré, Charles Etienne, author, on
emigrants replaced by Negro slaves
in Louisiana, I, 121.
Genius of Universal Emancipation,
The, Benjamin Lundy's anti-slavery
newspaper, II, 238.
Georgia, rights of free Negroes in, I,
199; Historical Collections of, 316;
story of Austin Dabney, 316; introduction
of slaves into, II, 121; property
of Negroes in, 145; number of
Negro banks in, 211.
German Labour, in Brazil, I, 121.
Germans, in Louisiana, replaced by
Negroes, I, 121; found Bombardopolis,
122; in New Orleans, 122.
Gibbs, Mifflin W., coloured antislavery
agitator, I, 295, 296; first
coloured judge of a city court, II,
186.
Gibson, G. W., ex-president of
Liberia, I, 68, 69; purchased by
father and sent to Liberia, 195.
Giles, Goodrich, wealthy Negro farmer
of Ohio, I, 236.
Gilman, Daniel, C., ex-President Johns
Hopkins' University, supports Coloured
Law and Order League,
Baltimore, Md., II, 361, 362.
Gilmore, Rev. Hiram S., founder
Cincinnati High School, II, 133.
Gilreath, Belton, on progress of Negroes
in coal and iron mining, II, 72.
Glenn, Joe, defended on charge of
rape, by Atlanta Civic League, II,
108.
Glenn, John M., Secretary Sage
Foundation, supports Coloured Law
and Order League, II, 362.
God, slave's idea of colour of, I, 23.
Gold Coast, inhabitants of, I, 70.
Goler, Dr. W. H., President Livingstone
College, II, 344.
Good, John, supports master's children,
I, 202.
Good Samaritans, Negro secret order,
II, 148.
Gorden, Henry, referred to, II, 347.
Graceland, Moravian coloured school,
Antigua, West Indies, I, 324.
Grace Presbyterian Church, Baltimore,
meeting-place of coloured law and
Order League, II, 365.
Grant, General Ulysses S., care of
refugees slaves, II, 6, 7.
Grant, W. E., first suggests organisation
True Reformers' Bank, II, 216.
Graves, Richard, trustee for purpose of
emancipating slaves, I, 243, 244.
Gray, French, referred to, II, 347.
Gray, Rev. William, minister and
founder of bank, II, 221, 222.
Green, Benjamin T. with Isaiah T.
Montgomery, founder of Mound
Bayou Miss., II, 371.
Green, Beriah, founder Oneida Institute
for Negroes, I, 225.
Green, John P., Negro lawyer, Justice
of the Peace, I, 203.

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Green, John Y., free Negro carpenter
and contractor in North Carolina, I,
202.
Green, Shields, Negro companion of
John Brown at Harper's Ferry, I,
175–177.
Greene, Colonel Christopher, defended
by Negro troops, I, 311.
Greene, John Richard, on white slavery
in England, I, 111.
Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor, coloured
singer, II, 277–279.
Grimke, Mrs. Charlotte Forten, granddaughter
James Forten, I, 290.
Grimke, Francis J., coloured Presbyterian
minister, I, 290.
Gross, William E., caterer New York
City, II, 195.
Guiana, Dutch and British, maroons
of, I, 131.
Haiti, revolt of slaves in, I, 172; Benjamin
Lundy settles colony of Freedmen
in, 192; Bishop of, 273; U. S.
Consul-general, II, 132; Philanthropic
Society of, 237; A. M. E.
Church in, 332.
Hale, Mrs. Ann, first conductor Hale
Infirmary, II, 172.
Hale, James H., founder of Hale
Infirmary, II, 172.
Hall, Mrs. Anne Maria, opens first
school for coloured children, District
of Columbia, II, 305.
Hall, Dr. George C., coloured physician,
Chicago, Ill., II, 175, 180;
visits African colony, Mobile, Ala.,
188, 189.
Hall, Dr. R. M., wealthy coloured
physician, Baltimore, Md., II, 257.
Hall, Primus, first separate coloured
school in house of, Boston, Mass.,
II, 134.
Hall, Prince, founder coloured Masonic
order, U. S., II, 148–151.
Hallowell, N. P., on Sergeant Carney
in assault on Fort Wagner, I, 329.
Hallowell, Lieutenant-colonel, Edward
H., referred to, I, 329.
Hamilton County, Ind., ante-bellum
coloured settlement in, I, 241.
Hamilton, J. C., on Negro in Canada,
II, 246.
Hampton Institute, becomes independdent
of A. M. A., I, 276; teachers
of, in Gloucester Co., Va., II, 44;
founded, Hampton, Va., 1866, 140;
industrial teaching at, 141; summer
school for teachers at, 310.
Hampton Negro Conference, studies
of Negro crime, II, 91; story of True
Reformers' Bank told at, 216.
Handlemann, Heinrich, on Negro in
Brazil, I, 120.
Haralson, Jere, coloured congressman,
II, 25.
Hargrove, Samuel, John Jasper's
master, I, 263, 264.
Harper, Fenton, referred to, II, 320.
Harper's Ferry, John Brown's raid
on, I, 175; pamphlet on, Osborne
Anderson, referred to, 177.
Harris, Eliza, fugitive slave, original of
Uncle Tom's Cabin, I, 240.
Harris, Joel Chandler, inventor of
"Uncle Remus," I, 162.
Harris, Thomas N., conductor of
coloured infirmary, Mobile, II, 172.
Harris, W. Hall, referred to, II, 362.
Harrison, W. P., gospel among the
slaves, II, 119, 120; on origin of First
Baptist Church, Savannah, I, 266.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, on slave insurrections,
I, 171; on fugitive slaves
in Ohio, 226; on Harriet Tubman,
II, 284.
Hatcher, William E., life of John
Jasper quoted, I, 262–264.
Hausa, colour of, I, 23; and Fulahs
compared, 54.
Hausa, merchant, at Kano, I, 22.
Hawkes, Samuel, wealthy Negro of
Cass County, Mich, I, 247.
Hawkins, Dr. Thomas S., coloured
physician, Baltimore, Md., II, 359.
Hawkins, Rev. William S., life of
Lunsford Lane quoted, I, 309.
Hawkins, W. Ashbie, referred to, II,
359.
Hawley, Colonel Joseph Roswell, on
conduct, coloured troops, in assault
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Haviland, Mrs. Laura S., opens school
for refugees in Canada, II, 242, 243.
Haynes, Rev. Lemuel, Revolutionary
soldier, first coloured Congregational
minister, II, 388–390.
Haywood, Sherwood, owner of Lunsford
Lane, I, 296.
Hazel, Richard, Free Negro, blacksmith,
North Carolina, I, 202.
Heidelberg, University of, confers
degree upon Negro, I, 284.
Henderson, John, pupil of coloured
school-teacher, John Travis, I, 274.
Henson, Josiah, fugitive slave, original
"Uncle Tom," II, 243; assists in
establishing manual labour school
in Canada, 243.
Henson, Matt, companion of Peary in
discovery of North Pole, II, 386.
Hewlett, E. M., coloured city magistrate,
Albany, N. Y, II, 186.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, on
plantation melodies, II, 262–265.
Hill, Collier, leaves slaves to trustee, I,
243, 244.
Hill, Leslie P., principal Manassas
Industrial School, Manassas, Va.,
II, 309.
Hill, William, influence of, on Jack of
Virginia, I, 267.
Hodges, Willis A., coloured antislavery
editor, I, 295.
Hodgson, W. B., account of slaves'
translation of Gospel of John, I,
53.
Hogan, Ernest, coloured comedian, II,
280, 281.
Holloway, Richard, Free Negro of
Charleston, I, 206.
Holly, James Theodore, Bishop of
Haiti, I, 273.
Holly Springs, Miss., progress of
Negroes in, I, 187.
Holt, Roland, helps establish Negro
Masonry in America, II, 149, 150.
Honey Hill, Negroes part in battle of,
I, 328.
Hood, Bishop James W., chairman
first coloured convention, North
Carolina, II, 16; first missionary
in the coloured church, to the Southern
states, 17; leading spirit in founding
Livingstone College, 343.
Hopkins, Charles T., organises Civic
League, Atlanta, II, 107.
Horner, Rev. James H., referred to, I,
274.
Horton, George, M., slave poet, II,
288.
Hosier, Harry, first Negro preacher in
Methodist Church, I, 257, 258.
Hospitals, for Negroes, the larger
named, II, 174.
Howard, General Oliver Otis, organises
Freedmen's Bureau, II, 9; Howard
University named after, 140.
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Effingham,
assists in establishing Negro Masonry
in United States, II, 149, 150.
Howard University, founded at Washington,
D. C., 1867, II, 140; medical
school of, 178; graduates first woman
lawyer, 184.
Howe, Dr. Samuel G., on Canadian
refugee colonies, II, 241, 242.
Howells, William Dean, estimate of
Paul Laurence Dunbar, II, 290.
Hubbard, Elbert, commends Hotel
Berry, Athens, O., II, 198, 199.
Hubbard, William P., acting mayor
of Toronto, II, 245, 246.
Humphreys, Richard, ex-slave-holder,
establishes Negro school, II, 132.
Humphreys, Solomon, Negro slave
purchases freedom and becomes
business man, I, 200.
Hunter, General David, enlists regiment
of former slaves, I, 322.
Huntingdon, Countess of, friend and
patron of Phyllis Wheatley, II,
287.
Hunton, William A., secretary coloured
Y. M. C. A., II, 352.
Huntsville, Ala., homes of James G.
Birney, former slave-owner and
abolitionist, I, 240.
"Hurricane," plantation of Joseph
Davis, I, 153, 156.
Hurst, Rev. John, coloured minister of
Baltimore, II, 359.
Hyman, John, coloured congressman,
II, 25.

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Ibo, Negro translates Bible into language
of, II, 336.
Illinois, rights of free Negroes in, I,
199; coloured settlements in, 226;
black code in, II, 19; number of
Negro banks in, 211.
Impartial Citizen, anti-slavery coloured
newspaper, II, 25.
India, Negro woman evangelist in, II,
322.
Indian, The, recedes before white man,
I, 77; compared with Negro as a
labourer, 120; compared with Negro,
125; and Negro at Hampton, 125;
feeling of superiority of, 126; intimate
association of, with Negro in America,
128; Negro white man and, 128, 136;
as a labourer, 141, 142; mother of
P. B. S. Pinchback on, II, 22.
Indians, intermarriage with whites prohibited,
I, 130; intermixture with
Negroes, 131; remnants of in West
Indies, 132; Chickasaws conspire
with slaves of New Orleans, 133;
bounty on scalps of, 135; cannibals
in United States, 136, note; cost of,
to govern of United States, 137; numbers
of compared with Negroes, 137;
and Negroes at Hampton Institute,
138, 139; of Charleston, S. C., 206;
first public school in Virginia for
benefit of, II, 118; and Negroes,
religious education of, 118, 119;
fugitive slaves found refuge among,
239.
Indian Slaves, absorbed by Negroes, I,
131; price of, in Massachusetts, 129;
sold to West Indies, 129.
Indian Slave-holders, in Georgia and
Alabama, I, 133; in Western states,
141.
Indian Territory, Negroes slaves in,
I, 134.
Independent, article on Negro crime
quoted, II, 97.
Industrial Education, connection with
economic advance in Southern states,
II, 192.
Institute for Coloured Youth, started
1837, Philadelphia, II, 132; summer
school for teachers at, 310.
Iowa, rights of free Negroes in, I, 199.
Insurance, Negro, II, 37; local companies
in Philadelphia, 155; number
of companies in United States, 1907,
161.
International Congress of Women,
Berlin, Germany, Negro women
represented at, II, 325.
Insurrection, slave, of Nat Turner, I,
173; of Denmark Vesey, 173; of
Gabriel and Jack Bowler, 173; not
inspired by revenge, 181.
Island Mound, Mo., first battle of
coloured troops near, I, 323.
Italians, given privileges in United
States not enjoyed by Negroes, I,
118.
Jack of Virginia, ante-bellum Negro
preacher, I, 267, 268.
Jackson, Andrew, reference to proclamation
of, to Free Negroes of
New Orleans, II, 14.
Jackson, Deal, Negro farmer of Georgia.
II, 53.
Jackson, Egbert, Negro youth receives
severe sentence, II, 97.
Jackson, Gov. James, invites Austin
Dabney to home, I, 318.
Jackson, Jennie, of original Fisk
Jubilee Singers, II, 269.
Jackson, Miss., special study of economic
condition of Negroes in, II,
204–206.
Jamaica, Henry Highland Garnet,
missionary to, I, 294; maroons of,
171.
James, Rev. J. D., coloured probation
officer, Birmingham, II, 113.
Jamestown, Va., first slave landed at,
I, 85.
Jasper, ante-bellum Negro preacher, I,
262–265.
Jay, John, on white slavery in Africa,
I, 281.
Jefferson, Thomas, sentiments on Negro
slavery, I, 313; correspondence with
Benjamin Banneker, II, 62.
Jenkins, Rev. O. C., founds Negro
Farmers' Banking Association,
Northampton, Va., II, 213.

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Jennings, Mrs. Mary McFarland,
mother of Mrs. Cordelia A. Attwell,
II, 307.
"Jerry Rescue," I, 225.
Johannes, among first converts of
Moravian missionaries, II, 119.
John, emancipated slave appointed
guardian his former master's ward,
I, 197.
Johnson, Anthony, Negro slave and
land owner in colony of Virginia, I,
198.
Johnson, Bishop J. Albert, A. M. E.
Church, member of Baltimore Law
and Order League, II, 360.
Johnson, C., Ferst, quits politics for
business, II, 208.
Johnson, James W., coloured poet,
poem on "Black and Unknown
Bards," II, 265, 266; musical composer,
281.
Johnson, J. Rosamond, Negro comedian,
II, 281.
Johnson, Lewis E., secretary coloured
Y. M. C. A., Washington, D. C.,
II, 353.
Johnson, President Andrew, coloured
delegation visits to urge Negro citizenship,
II, 18.
Johnson, Richard, obtains patent to
land in Colony of Virginia, I, 198.
Johnson, Sol. C., editor Savannah
Tribune, coloured, II, 222.
Johnson, William H., Henry Box Brown
shipped from Virginia to, I, 218.
Johnston, Sir Harry H., on diversity of
native types in Africa, I, 28; on
Negro slaves in India, 75; on character
of emigrants to Liberia, 244, 245;
on character of native African, II,
387.
Johnston, John, Negro owner of estate
in Colony of Virginia, I, 198.
Jones, Absolom, joint author of account
of plague in Philadelphia, I, 251, 252;
establishes first Negro Episcopal
Church in America, 252, 255; joint
founder of "Free African Society,"
253–255; petitions Legislature of
Pennsylvania and Congress against
first Fugitive Slave Law, 288.
Jones, John, visits President Johnson
in interest of Negro citizenship, II,
18.
Jones, John G., wealthy Negro, Chicago,
Il., agent Underground Railway,
I, 286.
Jones, Madam Sissieretta, coloured
singer, II, 279, 280.
Jones, Wiley, owner street railway,
Pine Bluff, Ark., II, 209.
Journalism, Negro, II, 187, 188.
Journalism, Negro, see Ante-bellum
newspaper.
Jubilee Singers, Story of, II, 266–271.
Jupiter, Negro converted by early
Moravian missionary, II, 119.
Juvenile Court, coloured, in Alabama,
II, 111.
Kaffirs, drive Bushmen out of South
Africa, I, 135.
Kano, Negro city, Western Soudan, I,
22; market of, described, 50; first
visit of white man to, 53; compared
with Chicago, 54, 55.
Kansas Relief Association, organised
in Boston by Mrs. St. Pierre Ruffin,
II, 327.
Kean, Edmund, plays Iago to Negro
actor's Othello, II, 282.
Keatts, Chester W., joint founder of
Mosaic Templars of America, II,
162.
Keebe, Ossie, native African of African
Colony, Mobile, Ala., I, 104.
Kenbridge, Va., seat of school for
freedmen, II, 307, 308.
Kenny, John A., coloured physician,
Tuskegee Institute, Ala., II, 172.
Kentucky, rights of Free Negroes in,
I, 199.
Kettle Creek, Battle of Negro soldier
in, I, 316.
King, Rev. William, emancipates slaves
and settles them, Elgin, Canada, II,
240, 241.
King of Prussia, confers distinction on
Negro actor, II, 282.
Kingsley, Mary H., on importance
of native labour in West Africa, I,
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46; native women's distrust of white
civilisation, 61; Africans' point of
view, 66; African religion, 67, 68;
African slave trade, 101, 102.
Knights and Daughters of Tabor, International
Order of Twelve, story of,
II, 158–160.
Knights of Honour Savings Bank,
Greenville, Miss., II, 219.
Knights of Honour, coloured secret
order, II, 148.
Knights of Liberty, Negro anti-slavery
secret order, II, 159.
Knights of Pythias, coloured, when
organised, II, 153; property owned
by, 156, 157.
Kongo people, basketry of, I, 47.
Koran, slave who could read, I, 53.
Kru people, farms and gardens of,
I, 46.
Labour, of Negro in Southern states,
I, 117.
Lafayette, Marquis de, Lunsford Lane
meets, I, 296; visits Negro school,
II, 133.
Lafon, Thomy, Negro philanthropist,
I, 272; reputed millionaire, II, 209,
210; referred to, 346, 347.
Lake Erie, Negroes in the battle of, I,
310.
Lambert, Lucien, coloured musical
composer, II, 276.
Lambert, Richard, father of Lucien,
II, 276.
Lambert, Sidney, coloured pianist and
composer, II, 277.
Land Owners, in Farmers' Improvement
Association, Texas, II, 380.
Land Owners, see Farmers.
Lane, Bishop Isaac, founder Lane
College, Jackson, Tenn., II, 344;
referred to, 347.
Lane, Lunsford, free Negro of Raleigh
North Carolina, I, 296–309; makes
abolition speech to Southern audience,
I, 302.
Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., II,
344; gifts to, by Bishop Lane, 347.
Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, O., growth
of anti-slavery agitation at, I, 290;
Rev. John G. Fee, converted to
abolitionism at, II, 140.
Laney, Lucy C., founder industrial
school, Augusta, Ga., II, 308
Langston, John M., Negro congressman
from Virginia, I, 235; terms by
which, obtained freedom, 235; antislavery
agitator, 295; Reconstruction
makes political leader of, II, 22;
date of admission to bar of, 185.
Lapsley, Rev. Samuel N., Southern
white missionary to Africa, II,
338.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, Negro bodyguards,
I, 88.
Las Guasimas, Negro soldier's part in
battle of, II, 390.
Laurens, Colonel John, on enlistment
of Negro soldiers in Revolutionary
War, I, 312.
Law, John, imports Negro slaves into
Louisiana, I, 121.
Law and Order League, of Baltimore,
II, 365.
Lawrence, last slave ship, I, 104.
Lawrence, Amos, member of the
Emigrant Aid Society, in Kansas
struggle, I, 315.
Lawrence, Major Samuel rescued
by Negro troop, I, 315.
Lawrenceville, Va., Negro industrial
school in, I, 273.
Lawson, Cornelius, coloured supervisor
Cass County, Mich., I, 247.
Lawyer, first coloured in United
States, II, 185.
Leader, coloured newspaper referred
to, II, 24.
Leary, John S., first Negro admitted
to bar in North Carolina, I, 204.
Leary, Lewis, Negro companion of
John Brown at Harper's Ferry, I,
175.
Leary, Mathew, Free Negro, North
Carolina, land and slave-owner, I,
203, 204.
Leary, Mathew, Jr., Reconstruction
politician, North Carolina, I, 204.
LeCount, Caroline R., principal coloured
school, Philadelphia, Pa., II,
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Lee, Joseph W., coloured hotel keeper,
Squantum, Mass., II, 199.
Leonard Medical College, coloured,
work of, II, 178.
Leupoldt, Tobias, Moravian missionary,
sells self into bondage, West
Indies, I, 119.
Levering, Eugene, President Commercial
National Bank, Baltimore, Md.,
supports work of coloured Law and
Order League, II, 362.
Lewis, Edmonia, Negro sculptress, II,
292, 293.
Liberator, Garrison's, assisted by James
Forten, I, 289.
Liberia, struggle with native slave-traders,
I, 145; settlement of Port
Cresson, by Quaker Negroes, 245;
American Negro in, II, 236; Mrs.
Sharpe's Home School in, 329.
Liberia Herald, I, 293.
Liberian, see Colonisation.
Liberian College, Alexander Crummell,
teacher in, I, 273.
Liberty League, coloured anti-slavery
organisation, I, 287.
Lincoln, Abraham, Southern birth of,
I, 249; Emancipation Proclamation
of, referred to, II, 33; head of, by
coloured sculptress, 293.
Lincoln Institute, founded 1865, Jefferson
City, Mo., II, 140.
Lisle, George, early Negro preacher,
Savannah, Ga., I, 265.
Livermore, George, views of the
Nation's Founders concerning Negro,
I, 319–320.
Liverpool, Moses, one of three coloured
men to build first coloured
school-house District of Columbia,
II, 134.
Livingstone College, anniversary celebration
of, II, 343, 344.
Loguen, Bishop Jarmain W., conductor
Underground Railway, I,
224; sketch of, 224, 225; referred to,
283; anti-slavery agitator, II, 83.
Long, Jefferson, coloured congressman,
II, 12, 25.
Longfellow, Henry W., bust of by
coloured sculptor, II, 293.
Longworth, Nicholas, builds first coloured
school in Cincinnati, II, 134.
Louisiana, Strange, True Stories of,
by George W. Cable, referred to, I,
122.
Louisville, Ky., coloured Y. M. C. A.
in, II, 354; meeting of National Negro
Business League in, 341.
Lovejoy, Elijah, William Wells Brown
associated with, I, 282.
L'Overture, Toussaint, leader slave
insurrection Santo Domingo, I, 172.
Lunda, African Empire of, I, 74, 75.
Luca, Alexander C., Sr., father of
family of distinguished coloured
singers, II, 279.
Lucas, George W. S., agent Underground
Railway, I, 285, 286.
Lugrande, E. L., coloured business
man, Boley, Okla., II, 250.
Lundy, Benjamin, editor first abolition
paper in United States, I, 192; interests
Garrison in abolition, 239; starts
abolition paper, Mount Pleasant,
O., 239; meets prosperous free
coloured man in Texas, 200, 201;
establishes colony of Negro freedmen
in Haiti, 192; II, 237, 238.
Lynchings, statistics of, II, 88; by what
offences occasioned, 89.
McCarty, Owen, runaway white servant,
I, 107.
McCord, Sam, successful Negro farmer
II, 53, 54
McCoy, Elijah, Negro holder of 28
patents, II, 78, 79.
McKee, Colonel John, of Philadelphia,
coloured philanthropist, II, 346.
McKim, J. Miller, secretary Pennsylvania
Anti-slavery Society, I, 217.
McKissack, E. H., treasurer Mississippi
Odd Fellows, I, 188.
Magee, Rev. Joseph, friendship of, for
a coloured preacher, I, 269.
"Ma'm Linda," story of Southern life,
referred to, II, 299.
Manassas, Va., Industrial school at,
started by Jennie Dean, II, 309.
Mangum, Priestly, pupil of John
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Mangum, Willie P., United States
Senator, pupil of John Chavis, I, 274.
Manly, Charles, Governor of North
Carolina, pupil of John Chavis, I,
274.
Maroons, of Dutch and British Guiana,
I, 131; of Jamaica, 171.
Martyr, Peter, Spanish historian, belief
of, that Negroes reached America
before Columbus, II, 384.
Maryland Journal advertising runaway
Irish servant, I, 107.
Maryland, rights of Free Negroes in,
I, 199.
Masai, of Uganda, I, 28.
Mason, Dr. Ulysses G., conductor of
coloured infirmary, Birmingham,
Ala., II, 172.
Masonic Benefit Association, business
of Alabama branch of, II, 161, 162.
Masons, Negro, first lodge of, in
America, II, 149, 150; at funeral of
George Washington, 151; number
of lodges in United States, 1904, 151;
second lodge in United States of,
151, in Louisville, 152; property
owned by, 156–158; charities of,
158.
Massachusetts, Negro population of,
in 1741, I, 94.
Matthew, freedman, completes payment
to his master for his freedom
after emancipation, II, 32, 33.
Matthews, James C., city judge,
Albany, N. Y., II, 186.
Matthews, Mrs. Victoria E., officer
National Federation Coloured Women's
Clubs, II, 329.
Matthews, William E., member of
coloured delegation urging President
Johnson to grant Negro citizenship,
II, 18.
Matzeliger, J. E., Negro inventor of
machinery for soleing shoes, II, 79.
May, Samuel J., abolitionist, aids in the
"Jerry Rescue," I, 225.
Meharry Medical College, coloured,
Nashville, Tenn., work of, II, 178.
Memphis, race war in, 1866, II, 19.
Menendez, Pedro, settles Negroes, St.
Augustine, Fla., I, 89.
Meredith, William, builds first Methodist
Church, Wilmington, N. C.,
with aid of donations of slaves, I, 259.
Merrick, John, founder North Carolina
Mutual and Provident Association,
II, 37; account of, 38.
Methodist Church, coloured, see Coloured
Methodist Church.
Methodist Church, Negroes attend
first general conference of, 1784, I,
253; establishes Sunday schools for
slaves, 1790, II, 121.
Methodist Discipline, in regard to
slavery, I, 259.
Methodism, beginning of in North
Carolina, I, 259, 260.
Methodists, Negro, first general conference
of leading denominations,
Washington, D. C., 1908, I, 257.
Mexico, Benjamin Lundy seeks a
refuge for freedmen, II, 238; Negroes
with Cortez in, 384.
"Middle Passage," slave memories of,
I, 6; described by Mungo Park, I,
101; losses of slave during, 102.
Miller, Thomas H., coloured congressman,
II, 25.
Milliken's Bend, Negroes part in battle
of, I, 327.
Ministerial Union, coloured, Baltimore,
II, 366.
Ministers, Negro, number of in United
States, II, 182.
Minstrels, Negro, the first, II, 280.
Mirror of the Times, Ante-bellum
coloured newspaper, I, 296.
Missions, coloured Baptist Church, II,
333; of the A. M. E. Church, 332,
333.
Mississippi, number of Negro banks
in, II, 211.
Mississippi Theological and Industrial
College, Holly Springs, Miss., II,
344.
Mob Violence, see Lynchings.
Mobile, Ala., colony of Africans near,
I, 103; Creole Negroes of, 208, 209;
grants license for education of Creole
Negro, II, 124.
Mobile Bay, favourite haunt of slave
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Mohammedan Fanatics, among Negroes
of Uganda, I, 28; Negro, 54.
Mon Louis Island, Creole settlement
on, I, 209.
Montamal, John, incident of Reconstruction
in New Orleans, II, 7, 8.
Montgomery, Benjamin, manager of
Davis plantation, I, 154–156.
Montgomery, Thornton, former slave
of Joseph Davis, I, 155, 156; letter
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis, 157.
Montgomery, Isaiah T., referred to, I,
24; former slave of Joseph Davis,
155; founder of Mound Bayou,
II, 246, 247, 371; opinions of, in
regard to moral and political conditions
in Mound Bayou, 374–376.
Moore, Rev. George W., coloured
field superintendent, A. M. Association,
II, 269.
Moore, George Henry, on law of slavery
in Massachusetts, I, 130.
Moorland, Dr. J. E., secretary coloured
Y. M. C. A., II, 352.
Moravians, Negro, II, 119; established
missions for Negroes, 119;
of Salem, N. C., II, 253.
Moral Education Association of
Boston, coloured woman a member
of, II, 328.
Morris, Albert, Free Negro in North
Carolina, I, 202.
Morris, Freeman, Free Negro in North
Carolina, I, 202.
Morris, Robert, coloured attorney
admitted to bar on motion Charles
Sumner, II, 185.
Mosaic Templars of America, founded
1882, business of, II, 162.
Moten, Major Robert R., commandant
Hampton Institute, I, 25; great-grandfather
of, kidnapped from
Africa, 102, 103.
Mott, James and Lucretia, aid in
escape of Henry Box Brown, I, 218.
Moultry, Francis, J, coloured caterer,
II, 196.
Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro colony in
Yazoo Delta, I, 156, II, 246–248;
self government in, 371; moral conditions
in, 374.
Mount Meigs, Reformatory for coloured
children at, II, 113.
Murray, George W., coloured congressman,
II, 25, 26.
Music, of native Africans, II, 260.
Myers, George A, successful barber,
II, 199, 200.
Mystery, Ante-bellum coloured newspaper,
I, 287.
Napier, James C., founder One Cent
Savings Bank, Nashville, Tenn., II
212.
Narvaez, Panfilo de, Spanish explorer,
Negroes accompany, I, 88; accompanied
by Negro Estevan, II, 385.
Nash, Charles E., Negro soldier and
congressman, I, 324.
Nassau, Rev. R. H., on African religion,
I, 65.
Natchez Indians, sold as slave to Santo
Domingo, I, 130.
National Bank, Chelsea, N. Y., stock
owned in, by Negro, II, 202.
National Baptist Publishing Company,
II, 340, 341.
National Medical Association, coloured,
sketch of, II, 179–181.
Nazarites, coloured secret order, II,
148.
Neau, Elias, establishes, 1704, school
for Indian and Negro slaves in New
York, II, 119.
Negro, The, in Africa, as represented
in school books, I, 8; American,
natives of Africa, 10, 18; colour,
basis of solidarity of, 33, 34; the
true, better than the Asiatic, 43;
in the country districts of the South,
62, 63; power of adaptation of, 77;
compared with the Indians, 125–143
part of, in slavery, 144; as an
individual and as a race, in the
South, 179; the educated, II, 91, 92;
literacy of, compared with European
nations, 117, 118; colonies, value
of, 252; gift of poetic expression of,
284; mission for, in Maryland, 121;
natural eloquence of, 318; relation
to white man in slavery and
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Negro Abolitionists, I, 288; speech of
at Raleigh, N. C., 1842, 302.
Negro Arch-deacons, in Episcopal
Church, I, 273.
"Negro Artisan," Atlanta University
Studies, II, 64, 65.
Negro Baker, large business of, in
Jackson, Miss, II, 203.
Negro Banks, names of, II, 204, 207,
219–224, 250, 253, 254; number
of, 211; types of, 212, 213; Alabama
Savings and Loan, of Birmingham,
225, 226; moral and material interests
interwoven in the work of, 231.
Negro Baptists, statistics of, I, 270.
Negro Barbers, increase of, II, 74;
trade of frequently confined to
Negroes, 199.
Negro Blacksmith, his place in social
life of Africa, I, 47, 48.
Negro Booksellers, successful at Greenville,
Miss, II, 202, 203.
Negro Business Enterprises, number of
in Jackson, Miss, II, 205, 206.
Negro Business League, National, II,
204, 341.
Negro Business Men, origin of, II, 194,
195.
Negro Caterers, names of ante-bellum,
II, 195, 196.
Negro Catholics, in Maryland and
Louisiana, I, 271, 272.
Negro Church, work of in Africa, I, 34;
Berean Presbyterian, social work of,
II, 257.
Negro Churches, support voluntary
probation officers, Birmingham, Ala.,
II, 111.
Negro Churches, see Churches, Negro.
Negro College, plan for, at New Haven,
Conn., 1832, II, 129, 130.
Negro Conference, annual at Tuskegee,
II, 50.
Negro Congressmen, names of, I, 324;
II, 12, 25, 26.
Negro Craftsmen in Virginia, II, 60.
Negro Crime, case of Ike Winder, II, 364.
Negro Crime, see Crime, Negro.
Negro Domination, evils of so-called,
II, 31.
Negro Education, see Education, Negro.
Negro Education, made to pay in
Macon County, Ala., II, 46.
Negro Explorers, II, 384.
Negro Farmer, amount of land owned
by, in United States, II, 47; conducts
reformatory at Tuscaloosa,
Ala., II, 112; of Maryland, 363.
Negro Farmers, names of successful,
II, 52–54, 250.
Negro Farmers, see Landowners.
Negro Folk Songs, II, 4.
Negro Governor, elected in Connecticut,
I, 87, foot-note.
Negro Grocer, II, 202.
Negro Hotel Keeper, most successful,
II, 197.
Negro in Africa, diversity of stocks
of, I, 20; as a labourer, 29, 30;
inventor of art of smelting ore, 32;
compared with American Negro,
33, 34, indefinable bond connecting
with America, 34; affection for
mother of, 44; stability of economic
conditions of, 50.
Negro in Brazil, I, 129.
Negro in Business during slavery, II,
81; in Jackson, Miss., 205.
Negro in Canada, study of by J. C.
Hamilton, II, 246.
Negro in Cuba, I, 120.
Negro Inventors, II, 77–79.
Negro Labour, in America compared
with, in Africa, I, 31; Lower South,
117; in West Indies, 118; compared
with Indian, 120; compared with
white, 121; compared with that of
other primitive people, 138, 141;
most efficient in United States, II,
59; in hemp-bagging factories, 63;
re-distribution of, 66; statistics of,
in factories, 75; in Maryland, 362;
used to build the first ship on Pacific
Coast of North America, 384.
Negro Labourer, compared with white
in South, I, 142; in cotton factories,
II, 62; losing monopoly of trades in
the South, 66.
Negro Landowners, in Virginia in the
seventeenth century, I, 198; in
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County, Va., 43; in Macon County,
Ala., 45; rate of increase, 46; compared
with white in North Carolina
and Georgia, 145; origin of, 194; in
Chicago, 224.
Negro Mechanics, before the Revolution,
II, 60; restriction upon, after
1830, 62; slave educated as, 63;
number of, in slavery, 64, 65.
Negro Millionaire, reputed, II, 209.
Negro Missionaries in Africa, II, 336–
338.
Negro Musicians of Louisiana, II, 276.
Negro Philanthropists, II, 209, 210,
346.
Negro Physician, drug stores owned by,
II, 181.
Negro Plot, of 1741, I, 91–94.
Negro Poets, names of several, II, 288,
289.
Negro Politicians, names of, II, 22;
character of those of Reconstruction
period, 193; history of two former,
207, 208.
Negro Preachers, names of, antebellum,
I, 257, 260, 262–265, 267,
269.
Negro Princes, in India, I, 75.
Negro Problem, courage quoted as
solution of, I, 191.
Negro Progress, referred to, in speech
of Congressman White, II, 27;
in Georgia, 41, 42; in Macon County,
Ala., 45, 46; since emancipation,
114; nature of, in United States,
206, 207; during slavery, 396.
Negro Schoolmaster, conducts white
school in Granville County, N. C.,
I, 274.
Negro Self-government, test of, at Boley,
Okla., II, 249; example of, at Mound
Bayou, 371–378.
Negro Self-help, II, 158.
Negro Senator, first, II, 12.
Negro Slave, condition of, in seventeenth
century, I, 112; appointed guardian
of white girl in Virginia, 197.
Negro Slaves, in Greece and Rome, I,
85; fresh levies necessary, 118; in
Indian Territory, 134.
Negro Slaves, see Slaves.
Negro Soldiers, contribute to the
founding of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson
City, Mo., H, 140.
Negro State, in Brazil, I, 75.
Negro Surgeons, the most noted named,
II, 180.
Negro Surveyor, laid out District of
Columbia, II, 60.
Negro Teacher, anecdote of an early,
I, 42.
Negro Undertakers, II, 200–202.
Negroes, number of Louisiana in 1728,
I, 121; intermixture with Indians,
131; Creole, 158, 207; home for
aged and infirm, Philadelphia, 292,
293; industrial home for, in South
Carolina, II, 36; employed in Durham,
N. C., tobacco factories, 38;
as employers of labour, 74; support
voluntary probation officer in Birmingham,
Ala., 112; special privileges
of Creole, 124; in the professions,
statistics of, 182; effect upon,
of laws of political rights, 190–193;
religious instruction of, by Presbyterians,
119; wealth of, in Louisiana,
I, 207–208.
Nell, William C., coloured anti-slavery
editor, I, 295.
Newby, Dangerfield, Negro companion
of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, I,
175.
New Jersey, rights of free Negroes
in, I, 199.
New Mexico, Negro explorer in, II, 385.
New Orleans, Negroes in battle of, I,
310; riot in 1866, II, 19; clandestine
schools in, 123; reputed Negro millionaire
of, 210.
Newport, R. I., headquarters of slave
trade, I, 145.
Newspapers, ante-bellum coloured, I,
287, 293, 294.
Newspapers, coloured, I, 204; number
of, in the United States, II, 187.
New York African Society, coloured
ante-bellum mutual relief society, I,
212, 213.
New York City, Negro population of, in
1741, I, 94; headquarters of slave
smugglers, 145; rights of free Negroes

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in, 199; Negro crime in, II, 86; coloured
schools of, 132, 133; Negro
caterers in, 195, 196; homes of
Negroes in, 254.
New York Herald, criticism of Henry
O. Tanner's painting quoted, II,
295.
Nickens, Owen T. B., aids in establishing
first coloured schools in Cincinnati,
O., II, 133.
Niles, Judge Alfred S., supports work
of coloured Law and Order League,
Baltimore, Md., II, 362.
North Carolina, life of free Negroes in,
I, 199; mutual and provident associations,
account of, II, 37; property
of Negroes in, 145; number of Negro
banks in, 211.
Northen, William J., organises league
of white and Coloured men, II, 107,
108.
North Pole, Negro accompanies Peary
to, II, 386.
Northrup, C. F., referred to, I, 248.
North Star, Frederick Douglass's paper,
I, 295.
Noyes Academy, Canaan, N. H., open
to Negroes, II, 130.
Nupe, Negro translates Bible into language
of, II, 336.
Oberlin Collegiate Institute, founded
1833, I, 291.
Odd Fellows, coloured, of Mississippi,
I, 188; first lodge of, II 152; under
jurisdiction of England, 153; propperty
owned by, 156, 157; charities of,
158.
Ogden, Peter, secures charter from
England for Negro Odd Fellows, II,
153.
Oglethorpe, James Edward, reports
slave conspiracy in New York,
I, 92; opposes slavery in Georgia,
116.
O'Hara, James E., coloured congressman,
II, 25.
Ohio, rights of free Negroes in, I, 199;
coloured settlements in, 226; black
code in, 238; II, 19; first coloured
school in, 133.
Oil mill, cotton-seed, erected at Mound
Bayou, II, 248.
Oklahoma, number of Negro banks in,
II, 211; Negro towns in, 250.
Old Folks Home, founded by True
Reformers, Henrico County, Va.,
II, 165.
Olmstead, Frederick Law, on free
Negroes of Louisiana, I, 207, 208;
on arrest of free Negroes, District of
Columbia, 213; on Negro mechanics,
II, 62, 63; on literacy of Negroes
in the back country of Mississippi,
125–127; on success of free coloured
women, 301, 302.
Olustee, battle of, I, 330.
Oneida Institute, school for Negroes,
Whitesboro, N. Y., I, 225, 294.
Ontario, Canada, Negro President
Municipal Association, II, 246.
Oregon, Negro accompanies first explorer
of, II, 386.
Orphanage for Negroes, founded by
coloured woman at Atlanta, II, 109,
110.
Orphans' Home, for coloured children
at Harvey, Ill., founded by Amanda
Smith, II, 325.
Osceola, Negro wife of, I, 133.
Otis, Joseph E., visits President Johnson
in interest of Negro citizenship,
II, 18.
Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez
de, Negroes in Spanish settlement
of North Carolina with, I, 83.
Oxford University, African students at,
II, 285; Negro receives degree from,
336.
Pace, Dinah, founds industrial school
and orphans' home, II, 309.
Packard, Joseph, President Board of
School Commissioners, Baltimore,
Md., supports work of Law and
Order League, II, 362.
Page, Thomas Nelson, Negro characters
of, referred to, I, 162–164.
Palmares, Negro state in South
America, I, 75.
Panama, inhabitants of, mixed Spanish,
Indian and Negro blood, I, 131.

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Paret, Rt. Rev. William, Baltimore,
Md., supports work of Coloured Law
and Order League, II, 362.
Paris Exposition, Negro gains prize
at, for cotton, II, 53.
Park, Joshua, referred to, II, 347.
Park, Mungo, travels of, in Soudan, I,
53; on African slave trade, 95–101;
befriended by African woman, II,
297, 298.
Parton, James, history of General
Butler in New Orleans, II, 8.
Patterson, David, sends slaves to Haiti,
II, 237.
Payne, Bishop Daniel A., befriended
by free Coloured Society, Charleston,
S. C., I, 211; founder of Wilberforce
University, 237, 238; referred
to, II, 347.
Peary, Robert E, Negro accompanies,
to North Pole, II, 386.
Pemberton, James, manager Jefferson
Davis plantation, I, 156.
Penn, I. Garland, brings about the
first national meeting of Negro physicians,
Atlanta Exposition, 1895, II,
179, 180.
Pennington, Rev. James W. C., agent
Underground Railway, I, 283, 284;
presides at coloured political convention,
Syracuse, 1863, II, 17.
Pennsylvania, Negro population of,
1754, I, 94; rights of free Negroes
in, 199; number of Negro banks in,
II, 211.
Pennsylvania Young Men's Society,
promotes Negro emigration to Africa,
I, 244.
Perry, C. W., of Boley, Okla., II, 250.
Peterson, John, coloured principal
first normal school for coloured
teachers, New York, II, 133.
Pettiford, Rev. W. R., establishes
Negro bank in Birmingham, II, 225–
233.
Pharmacist, first Negro in the United
States, II, 177.
Philadelphia, influx of coloured population
to, I, 253; Negro crime in, II,
86, 87; coloured secret orders of,
II, 155, 156; Frederick Douglass
Hospital in, 174; Negro caterers
in, 195; homes of coloured people
in, 254, 257; social work of Presbyterian
Church in, 349.
Phillips, Ulrich B. on progress of
slave mechanics in Charleston, II,
79, 80.
Phillips, Wendell, referred to, II, 196;
on Sojourner Truth's oratorical
powers, II, 318.
Physicians and Surgeons, number of,
II, 182.
Pierce, Edward L., starts Negro
school at Beaufort, S. C., II, 9.
Pillsbury, Parker, Sojourner Truth
replies to a young minister at meeting
of, II, 316.
Pinchback, Pickney, B. S., soldier of
Civil War, I, 324; lieutenant and
acting Governor, 324; Reconstruction
political leader, II, 22, 23.
Pinchback, Major William, father of
P. B. S., II, 22.
Pinckney, Charles, on fidelity of slaves
during Revolutionary War, I, 319.
Pine Bluff, Ark., coloured Masonic
temple at, II, 157; street railway
owned by Negro in, 209.
Pizarro, Francisco, Negro bodyguard
of, I, 87, 88.
Plantation hymns, I, 13, 165; II, 263,
264.
Planter, The, Confederate transport
stolen by Negro crew, II, 20–22.
Planters' Journal, comment of, on
Mound Bayou, II, 376.
Poindexter, coloured Underground
Railway agent, I, 285.
Politics, Negro in, II, 193, 356.
Politics, see Ballot.
Political Rights, effect of loss of, on
Negroes of Alabama, II, 190.
Pollard, L. M., director coloured bank,
Savannah, Ga., II, 223.
Poor, Salem, in battle of Bunker Hill,
I, 314.
Pope, Colonel Wyley, referred to, I, 318.
Port Cresson, Liberia, settled by
Negro colonists, I, 245.
Port Hudson, Negroes' part in battle of,
I, 327.

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Porter, Maggie (Mrs. Cole), early
Fisk Jubilee singer, II, 269, 270.
Pratt, Harry T., supervisor Baltimore,
Md., Public Schools, II, 359.
Presbyterian Church, among Negroes,
I, 273; Afro-American, 275; North,
number of ministers and presbyterys
in Southern states, 275; of
Canada, schools for fugitive slaves,
started by, II, 241; Southern African
missions of, 338, 339.
Price, Dr. Joseph C., I, 24; first President
Livingstone College, II, 343.
Proctor, Rev. Henry Hugh, coloured
member Atlantic Civic League, II,
107; establishes institutional church,
108, 109; referred to, 348.
Progress, of Negro, observations of Dr.
George C. Hall, in Mobile, Ala., II,
189; signs of, 212.
Property, of Negroes, value of, II 47;
of secret orders, 156; in Jackson,
Miss., 204; of individuals, 209, 210;
in Chicago, 224.
Protestant Episcopal Church, first
coloured minister in, I, 272; first
Negro baptised in, 1624, I, 272;
number of Negroes ordained in
273; work of Domestic Missionary
Society of, II, 308.
Provident Hospital, coloured, Chicago,
II, 174.
Purvis, Dr. Charles B., army surgeon,
I, 326; professor Howard University,
326.
Purvis, Mrs. Charles B., granddaughter
of James Forten, I, 290.
Purvis, Robert, chairman Philadelphia
Vigilance Committee, I, 215; signs
declaration First American Antislavery
Convention, 284; John G.
Whittier describes, 284, foot-note.
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeievich, national
poet of Russia, African origin
of, II, 289.
Pygmies, of Elgon and Semliki forests,
I, 28.
Race Distinctions, made first on ground
of religion, I, 114.
Race Prejudice in the South, I, 142.
Race War, in Memphis, Tenn., 1866;
II, 19; in New Orleans, La., 19.
Racial Identity, Negroes sometimes
ashamed of, I, 12, 16.
Racial Intermingling, in the South and
West Indies, I, 131; some products of,
132; Indian Territory, 134; Negroes
and Indians, 142.
Rainey, Joseph H., Negro congressman,
I, 325, II, 12.
Ram's Horn, anti-bellum coloured
newspaper, I, 295.
Randolph Freedmen, attempt to settle
in Mercer County, O., I, 235.
Randolph, John A., of Roanoke, Va.,
on fear of Negro insurrection, I, 178;
frees slaves, 194; provides for slaves
in will, 235, 236; describes eloquence
of slave woman, 279.
Rankin, John, abolitionist of Ripley,
O., I, 240.
Rape, Negro and white commitments
for, compared, II, 104; disposition of
Negro to commit, II, 105, 106; Negro
acquitted of, in Atlanta, Ga., 108.
Rapier, James T., coloured Congressman,
II, 26.
Ray, Charles B., early editor Negro
newspaper, I, 293.
Ray, Charlotte, first coloured woman
lawyer, II, 184, 185.
Reason, Charles L., Negro educator,
I, 294; in Philadelphia, Pa., II, 132.
Reck, John S., first coloured man
admitted to United States Supreme
Court, II, 185.
Reclus, Jean Jacques Elisée, on
German labour in Brazil, South
America, I, 121, 122.
Reconstruction, in Southern states,
II, 19, 20; opinion of coloured man
upon, 29; results of so-called, in
Atlanta, Ga., 108, 109.
Redding, Joe, white man receives
light sentence for murder, II, 98.
Redmond, S. D., coloured physician
and business man in Jackson, Miss.,
II, 205.
Reed, Joseph, letter to, from George
Washington, concerning Phyllis
Wheatley, II, 287, 288.

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Reed, Lindsay S., establishes insurance
company in Savannah, Ga., II, 219,
220.
Reed Home and School, conducted
by Dinah Pace, at Covington, Ga.,
II, 309.
Reformatory, for Negro children,
Hanover Co., Va., II, 110; at Mt.
Meigs, Ala., 113, 330.
Refugees' Home, for fugitive slaves,
Windsor, Ont., Canada, II, 240.
Reid, Dow, Negro farmer, Macon Co.,
Ala., II, 194.
Reid, Frank, Negro farmer, Macon
Co., Ala., II, 194.
Reilly, Barnard, advertises for runaway
bond-servant, I, 107.
Relations of whites and blacks, peculiar
in the South, I, 11.
Remond, Charles Lenox, agent Underground
Railway and anti-slavery
lecturer, I, 283; assists in raising
coloured troops, 323.
Revels, Hiram R., first coloured U. S.
Senator, II, 11.
Reynolds, R. J., tobacco manufacturer
of Winston-Salem, assists in building
coloured hospital, II, 252, 253.
Rhode Island, coloured regiment in
battle of, I, 311.
Rhodes, James Ford, on slave labour,
I, 152; on Negro delegates to Southern
constitutional conventions, II, 19.
Rice culture, Negro labour necessary
in, I, 117.
Richmond, Va., part of Negro troops
in the fall of, I, 331; Negro banks of,
II, 219.
Ridley, Mrs. U. A., officer National
Federation of Coloured Women's
Clubs, II, 329.
Riot, the Atlanta, effect upon coloured
people of, II, 359.
Riot, see Race war.
Rischer, H. K., successful baker,
Jackson, Miss., II, 203.
Roberts Family, Free Negro settlement
of, in Ohio, I, 241.
Robin, discharged from servitude in
Canada on writ of habeas corpus,
II, 239.
Robinson, John, Tuskegee graduate
in West Africa, I, 37.
Rockefeller, John D., contributed to
coloured Y. M. C. A. Bldg., Washington,
D. C., II, 353.
Rodin, Auguste, coloured sculptress's
work attracts attention of, II, 293.
Root Doctor, The, in the country
districts, II, 173.
Rose, John C., U. S. District Attorney,
Baltimore, Md., legal adviser
Coloured Law and Order League,
II, 362.
Ross, Alexander, goes from Canada to
Southern states to rescue slaves,
I, 221, foot-note.
Ross, A. W., calls on President Johnson
in interest of Negro citizenship, II,
18.
Rough Riders, Negro soldiers go to
support of at Las Guasimas, II,
390.
Roman, Dr. C. B., coloured oculist,
Nashville, Tenn., II, 175.
Royal Geographical Society, Negro
made member of, II, 336.
Ruffin, Chief Justice, North Carolina,
defines relation of master and slave,
I, 148.
Ruffin, George, L., Judge of municipal
court, Charlestown, Mass, II, 186.
Ruffin, Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre,
coloured club, woman, II, 326–330.
Ruggles, David agent Underground
Railway, I, 283; editor Mirror of
Liberty, 283.
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, opinion of, concerning
Harry Hosier, I, 257.
Russell, James S., archdeacon and
principal of Episcopal school at
Lawrenceville, Va., I, 273.
Russwurm, John B., edits first Negro
newspaper in United States, I, 292,
293.
Rutling, Thomas, of original Fisk
Jubilee singers, II, 270; teacher of
English in Switzerland, II, 270,
271.
Salem, Peter, slayer of Mayor Pitcairn,
I, 314.

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Salzburgers, see Moravians.
Sampson, Benjamin, teacher at Wilberforce,
I, 204.
Sampson, James D., Free Negro in
North Carolina, I, 204.
Sampson, John P., editor Coloured
Citizen, I, 204.
Sampson, George M., teacher, Florida
State Normal School, I, 205.
San Juan Hill, Negro soldiers in battle
of, II, 391.
Sanderson, Thomas, one of founders
Negro Masonry in America, II, 149.
Sandys, George, sells bond-servant for
debt, I, 110, 111.
Sanifer, J. M., Negro farmer of Pickens
County, Ala., I, 63, 64.
Santo Domingo, slaves introduced into,
1505, I, 87; Indians sold as slaves to,
130; revolt of slaves in, 172; refugees
from, found St. Francis' Academy,
Baltimore, 271, 272.
Sarbah, John Mensah, native African,
author Fanti Customary Law, I, 70,
71.
Saunders, Negro servant of John C.
Fremont, II, 386.
Savannah, Ga., Negro crime in, II, 86;
example of Negro business in, 219,
220; Negro banks of, 219, 222; seat
of Georgia State Industrial College,
221; Negro business concerns of,
219–223; mission work of Young
Men's Sunday Club in, 350.
Savings and Loan Association,
examples of, among Negro, II, 213.
Saxton, General Rufus, at Beaufort,
S. C., II, 9.
Schofield School for Negroes, Aiken, S. C., II, 175.
School Farm, for support of rural Negro
schools, II, 142.
School Law, separate, in Massachusetts,
tested by coloured lawyer, II, 185.
School Suffrage Association, of Boston,
coloured woman member of,
II, 328.
Schools, ante-bellum for Negro, I,
200, 212, 225, 236, 271, 280, 294; II,
123, 129–132, 134–136, 197, 308–
310, 319.
Schools, Negro, II, 175, 221, 227, 252,
307, 344, 346, 349, 363, 380.
Schools, Negro, gifts to, by Negroes,
II, 346–348; supported by Negro
Baptists, 339–341; supported by
Negro Methodists, 341–345.
Schweinfurth, George August, quoted
on Africa, II, 283.
Scipio, North Carolina slave, blacksmith,
owner of livery stable, I, 202.
Scott, Walter S., secretary and treasurer,
coloured bank, Savannah, Ga., II,
222.
Seaboard Slave States, Olmstead's
journey through, referred to, II,
398.
Sego, Capital of Bambara, West
Africa, Mungo Park visits, II, 297.
Séjour, Victor, coloured musician, gains
distinction in Paris, II, 276.
Selma University, of Selma, Ala., II,
227.
Seme, Pixley Isaka, African student,
gains oratorical honours at Columbia
University, II, 285.
Seminoles, of Florida, intermingle
with runaway slaves from Georgia,
I, 133.
Serfdom, effort to re-establish, in
Georgia, I, 116.
Servants, white, condition of, like
Negro slaves in the colonies, I, 113.
Servitude, white in North Carolina,
I, 113; in the colonies, 107–116.
Settle, Josiah T., political leader,
Reconstruction Period, II, 22, 23.
Seven Wise Men, The, coloured secret
order, II, 148.
Shaker Abolitionist, Seth Concklin, I,
221.
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, on Negro
as labourer, I, 139–142.
Shaw, Mrs. Mary E., coloured benefactress
of Tuskegee Institute, II, 346.
Shaw, Robert Gould, white commander
Negro regiment, Civil War,
I, 248, 328; killed in assault on
Fort Wagner, 328; bust of, by
coloured sculptress, II, 293.
Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., 1865,
II, 140.

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Shepley, General George F., in New
Orleans, II, 14.
Sheppard, William H., coloured missionary
in Africa, II, 338.
Sheppard, Ella, of original Fisk
Jubilee Singers, II, 267; wife of
Rev. George W. Moore, 269.
Shiloh Church, Ante-bellum Negro,
New York City, I, 284.
Shirley, Thomas, endows Negro school,
Philadelphia, II, 131.
Shorter, Bishop James A., referred to,
II, 347.
Siboney, Cuba, Negro soldiers at, II,
391, 392.
Siebert, Wilbur H., on Underground
Railway, I, 282, 285, 286.
Silk Mill, Fayetteville, N. C., Negro
labour in, II, 75, 76.
Slater Industrial and State Normal
School, Winston-Salem, N. C., II,
252.
Slater, John F., makes first large gift
for Negro education in the South,
II, 129.
Slave Caravan, Mungo Park's description
of, I, 97–101.
Slave Code, see Slave Laws.
Slave-consuming countries, I, 105.
Slave Girl Poet, Washington's kindness
to, II, 288.
Slave-holders, efforts of Southern, to
lessen evils of slavery, I, 249.
Slave in Business, with white man, II,
81.
Slave Insurrection, effect of Northampton,
on condition of slaves,
I, 297; fear of, during Civil War,
II, 4.
Slave Laws, distinguishing between
Christians and heathen, I, 114–
116; show slavery on its harsher
side, 147; made emancipation
difficult, 178; of North Carolina,
restricting emancipation, 243, 244,
300, 301; referred to, II, 62, 82, 83,
118, 122–124.
Slave Mechanics, price of, II, 63;
treatment of, 64; independent position
of, 79; restrictions on intellectual
powers of, 80.
Slave-raiders, visit of, to coast of
Florida, I, 129.
Slavery, in Africa and America and
America compared, I, 96–100; advantages
derived from by Negro,
135; judgment of Supreme Court,
of North Carolina, on, 147, 148;
the idea at bottom of, 149; on the
small plantations, 149–151; on the
large plantations, 152, 153; in Virginia,
165; white, in Africa, 280,
281; an industrial and political
system, II, 82; real cause of downfall
of, 83, introduction of, into
Georgia, 121; in Canada, 239;
in New York, Sojourner Truth's
account of, 311–315; progress of
Negro under, 396, 397.
Slaves, African, proportion of in population
of America, I, 95.
Slaves, Fugitive, from industrious and
ambitious class, II, 83.
Slaves, Negro, in the West Indies, 1501,
I, 87; number of, in America, in
1800, 95; price of, 1820–1830, 96;
number of, brought to America,
105, 106; light colour of, in
Louisiana, 123; runaway, intermingle
with Seminoles of Florida,
133; treatment of, on plantation,
146; plan of Mississippi planter for
freeing, 194; public discussions of,
297; freedom given those taking
part in Revolutionary War, 313; invited
to join King's Army in Revolutionary
War, 319; some practically
free, II, 80, 81; conspiracy of, in
New York, 119; school for Indian
and Negro, in New York, 119; education
among, in Back Country, 137;
New York Society for promoting
manumission of, 132.
Slaves, proportion of, to free men in
Africa, I, 95; twenty landed at
Jamestown in 1619, 85.
Slave Ship, the last, I, 104.
Slave Songs, I, 100, 160; compared
with African music, II, 261; study
of, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
262–264; origin of, 262; poetic
language of, 264, 265; Creole, 276.

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Slave Trade, extent of, from West
Coast of Africa, I, 57; corrupts
native customs, 58, 59; in seventeenth
century, 60; begun, 1442,
by merchants of Seville, Spain, 86;
transition of domestic into foreign,
in Africa, 95; domestic, in United
States, 98, note; foreign, made a
crime in 1808, 101; loss of life from,
102, note; survivors of last slave
ship, 103; white, 111.
Smalls, Robert, carries off Confederate
transport Planter, II, 20, 22; congressman,
22; collector of customs at
Beaufort, 22.
Smiley, Charles H., coloured caterer,
Chicago, Il., II, 196.
Smith, Abiel, founder of "Smith
School," Boston, Mass., II, 134.
Smith, Adam, Lott Cary reads "Wealth
of Nations," of, II, 234.
Smith, Alfred, Negro "Cotton King,"
Oklahoma, II, 52, 53.
Smith, Amanda, coloured evangelist,
II, 321–325.
Smith, Benjamin R., aids Lunsford
Lane to purchase freedom, I,
298.
Smith, Boston, one of founders of
American Negro Masonry, II, 149.
Smith, Gerrit, abolitionist, aids in the
"Jerry Rescue," I, 225.
Smith, Dr. James McCune, agent
Underground Railway, I, 283;
speech of welcome to Lafayette, II,
133; gains distinction as a physician,
177.
Smith, James A., aids in the escape of
fugitive slaves from Richmond, Va.,
I, 217.
Smith, Dr. John Blair, of Hampton-Sydney
College, Va., influence of,
on Jack of Virginia, I, 267.
Smith, John D., statement concerning
slave mechanics, II, 64, 65.
Smith, Robert H., attorney, supports
work of Coloured Law and Order
League of Baltimore, II, 362.
Smith, Robert L., founder of Farmers'
Improvement Association, of Texas,
II, 378–382.
Smith, Stephen, wealthy Negro endows
Old Folks Home, Philadelphia, I,
292.
Smithfield, O., ante-bellum coloured
settlement in, I, 240, 241.
Smythe, John H., former minister to
Liberia, founds reformatory for
coloured children in Virginia, II, 110.
Snow Riot, Washington, D. C., 1835,
II, 135.
Soldiers, Negro, number of, in Revolutionary
War, I, 310; numbers of,
in Confederate Army, 320; numbers
of, in Federal Army, 326; first fight
of, 322, 323; names of, 324–326; in
Spanish-American War, II, 390, 392.
Sons and Daughters of Jacob, coloured
secret order, II, 148.
Sons and Daughters of Peace, bank of,
Newport News, Va., II, 219.
Sons of Saint Thomas, founded 1823,
II, 155.
South Africa, African student's description
of people of, I, 78, 79;
desire of natives for education in, 80.
South America, slave-raiders visit, I,
129.
South Carolina, Negro population of,
1740, I, 94; rights of free Negroes
in, 199.
Southampton County, Va., insurrection
of slaves in, I, 173.
Southern States, Negroes' place in
literature of, I, 7.
Solvent Savings Bank, of Memphis,
Tenn., II, 23.
Spradley, Wash., agent Underground
Railway, I, 285.
Squantum, Mass., hotel conducted by
Negro at, II, 199.
St. Francis Academy, Baltimore, Md.,
founded by Negroes, I, 271, II,
346.
St. Louis, Mo., Negro crime in, II, 86.
St. Luke's Church, Washington, D. C.,
Alexander Crummell, pastor of, I,
273.
St. Luke's Penny Saving Bank, Richmond,
Va., II, 219.
St. Philip's Church, slaves held by,
Charleston, S. C., I, 207.

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St. Philip's Church, Episcopal, in New
York City, II, 307.
St. Pierre, John, father of Mrs. Josephine
St. Pierre Ruffin, II, 327.
St. Thomas Church, Philadelphia,
1794, I, 255.
Stanley, John C., Free Negro in North
Carolina, I, 201, 202.
Stark, Colonel W. Pinkney, on slavery
in South Carolina, I, 150–152.
Statistics of Churches, I, 276, 277.
Steedman, General James B., commands
Negro troops, battle of Nashville,
Tenn., I, 330, 331.
Steele, Carrie, founder of coloured
orphanage, Atlanta, Ga., II, 109, 110.
Steiner, Bernard C., on missionary
school, Maryland, 1750, for poor
white and Negro children, II, 121.
Sterrs, Dr. W. E., conductor of Cottage
Home Infirmary, II, 172.
Stevens, Rev. William B., on the
importation of white bondsmen into
Georgia, I, 116, 119.
Stewart, Dr. F. A., coloured physicial,
Nashville, Tenn., II, 175.
Stewart, Eliza, mother of P. B. S.
Pinchback, II, 22.
Still, Peter, finds his brother William
in Philadelphia, Pa., I, 219–221;
efforts of, to rescue family, 221.
Still, William, secretary Philadelphia
Vigilance Committee, I, 215, 216;
author of "The Underground Railroad,"
I, 216–221; chairman General
Vigilance Committee, 284, 285.
Story, William Wetmore, statue of
Sojourner Truth by, II, 318, 319.
Stow, George W., author of "Native
Races of South Africa," quoted, I,
19.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, original of
her "Uncle Tom" a refugee in
Canada, II, 243.
Straight University, New Orleans, La.,
1869, II, 140; gift to, by Thomy
Lafon, 347.
Suggs, Daniel C., referred to, II, 221.
Sumner, Charles, on white slavery in
Africa, I, 281; speech in favour of
seating Negro senator, II, 12; aids
coloured attorney to win admission
to bar, 185; aids first coloured man
to gain admission to U. S. Supreme
Court, 185; referred to, 196; bust
of, by coloured sculptress, 293.
Sunday School, Negro, started by
Southern theological students, Lane
Seminary, Cincinnati, O., I, 291.
Sunday Schools, gave Negroes first
opportunity for education, II, 121.
Surgeons, coloured, progress of, II,
174, 175.
Swaney, Negro playmate of John C.
Calhoun, I, 150.
Syracuse, N. Y., station of Underground
Railway, I, 224.
Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.,
1869, II, 140, 227.
Taney, Chief Justice Roger B., frees
slaves, I, 194.
Tanner, Bishop Benjamin T., referred
to, II, 171; father of Henry O.
Tanner, 294.
Tanner, Henry O., referred to, II, 171;
coloured painter, II, 294–296.
Tappen, Arthur, buys land in New
Haven for Negro industrial school,
II, 130.
Taxation and Negro schools, paper
on, by Charles L. Coon, superintendent
of schools, Wilson, N. C.,
II, 143.
Taylor, Dr. W. Benjamin, befriends a
coloured woman doctor, II, 176.
Taylor, John Louis, Chief Justice
Supreme Court, North Carolina,
decision in case of Quakers prosecuted
for freeing slaves, I, 243.
Taylor, Robert R., referred to, II, 81.
Taylor-Lane Hospital, coloured,
Orangeburg, S. C., II, 175, 176.
Teachers, Negro, number of, II, 182.
Teage, Collin, companion of Lott Cary
in Liberia, II, 235.
Tennessee, number of Negro banks in,
II, 211.
Tenth Cavalry, coloured, at Las
Guasimas, Cuba, II, 390.
Terrell, Mrs. Mary Church, coloured
woman lecturer, II, 325.

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Terrell, Robert H., coloured city magistrate,
Washington, D. C., II, 186.
Texas, number of Negro banks in, II,
211.
The Genius of Universal Emancipation,
Benjamin Lundy's anti-slavery
paper, Mount Pleasant, O., I, 239.
The North Star, Frederick Douglass's
paper, Rochester, N. Y., II, 187.
The True Reformer, organ of the True
Reformers, Richmond, Va., II, 164.
Theatre, coloured cities where located, II, 283.
Thoburn, Bishop James Miles, life
of Amanda Smith sketched by, II,
322–325.
Thomas, James C., coloured undertaker,
New York City, II, 201, 202.
Thomas, Rev. Samuel, first missionary
to Indians and Negroes in America,
II, 119.
Thompson, George, African missionary
referred to, II, 337.
Thurman, Mrs. Lucy, in charge of
coloured W. C. T. U. work, II, 326.
Tillman, Benjamin R., kindly personal
relation sof, with Negroes, I, 179;
II, 36, 37.
Togoland, West Africa, Tuskegee
students in, I, 37.
Toronto, Canada, Negro acting Mayor
of, II, 245.
Torrey, Rev. Charles T., goes South to
rescue slaves, I, 221, foot-note.
Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss.,
1869, II, 140.
Trades Education, opportunities of
Negroes for, II, 65.
Tribune, Savannah, coloured newspaper,
II, 223.
Trotter, James M., history coloured
musicians, quoted, II, 274–277.
Trower, John S., coloured caterer,
Philadelphia, Pa., II, 195.
True Reformers, referred to, II, 148;
property owned by, 156; history
of, 163–168; report of U. S. department
of labour on, 163; bank of,
215–217.
Trumball, John, Negro portrait in
picture of Bunker Hill by, I, 314.
Truth, Sojourner, sketch of, II, 310–
319.
"Tuberculosis Centre," of Maryland,
II, 360.
Tubman, Harriet, Underground Railway
operator, I, 222, 223; graphic
description of battle of Gettysburg
by, II, 284, 285.
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly, jurist,
letter on Negro progress in Virginia,
in 1801, II, 396, 397.
Tulane, Victor H., coloured grocer,
Montgomery, Ala., II, 202.
Turkana, of Uganda, I, 28.
Turner, Benjamin S., coloured congressman,
II, 26.
Turner, Bishop Henry M., first coloured
chaplain in Federal Army,
I, 324.
Turner, Nat, slave insurrection of,
Northampton County, Va., 1831, I,
172–175; sketch of, 182, 183;
causes Jack of Virginia to stop
preaching, 268; Negro banks started
in home of, II, 213.
Tuscaroras, not wanted as slaves in
Northern states, I, 130.
Tuskegee Institute, founding of, II,
54, 55; work of, 56; in the early
days, II, 192; support of, by former
students of, 346; gift to, by coloured
woman, 346.
Tuskegee Night School, started by
Women's Club, II, 331.
Tuskegee Woman's Club, work of, II,
330.
Twenty-fifth Infantry, coloured, II,
390.
Twin City Realty Company, of
Winston-Salem, II, 254.
Uganda, people of, I, 28; Winston
Churchill on, 76, 77.
"Uncle Remus," prototype of, in
Africa, I, 72; referred to, 162.
Underground Railway, records of,
by William Still, I, 216; number
of agents of, in the South, 232;
part of Knights of Liberty in, II, 160;
station at Albany, O., 197; station
in Philadelphia, 320.

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United Brothers of Friendship, coloured
secret order, II, 148; organised 1861,
153.
United States Supreme Court, first
Negro admitted to practice before,
II, 185.
"Up from Slavery," I, 3.
Valladolid, Juan de, mayor of the
Negroes of Seville, I, 86, 87.
Van Dyke, Peter, coloured caterer,
New York, II, 195.
Vanlomen, Father, establishes seminary
for coloured girls in Washington,
D. C., II, 136.
Vardaman, James K., referred to, I,
179; vetoes appropriation for State
Normal School at Holly Springs, II,
345.
Vei people, inventors of an alphabet, I,
72.
Verner, Samuel P., African missionary,
I, 48, 49.
Vesey, Denmark, leader of slave insurrection,
Charleston, S. C., 1822,
I, 172, 173; sketch of, 181, 182;
conspiracy of, results in restrictions
on the liberty of free Negroes,
211.
Vigilance Committee, in Philadelphia,
I, 215.
Virginia Manual Labour School, reformatory
for Negro children, 1897, II,
98.
Virginia, rights of Free Negroes in, I,
199; number of Negro banks in, II,
211.
Voorhees Industrial School, Denmark,
S. C., hospital of, II, 173; founder
of, 183, 184.
Walker, Agnes, referred to, II, 347.
Walker, Aida Overton, coloured
comedienne, II, 281.
Walker, David, first Negro to attack
slavery through the press, I, 292.
Walker, George, coloured comedian,
II, 281; referred to, 347.
Walker, Molly, referred to, II, 347.
"Walker's Appeal," first anti-slavery
tract issued by Negro, I, 292.
Wall, Captain O. S. B., Federal
officer, Civil War, I, 326.
Walls, Josiah T., coloured congressman,
II, 26.
Wanderer, carries 510 slaves to Georgia
1858, I, 104.
Warburg, Eugène, coloured sculptor,
II, 276.
Ward, Samuel R., coloured anti-slavery
agitator, I, 295; anti-slavery editor,
II, 25.
Waring, Dr. J. H. N., principal,
Baltimore, Md., Coloured High
School, II, 360.
Warrick, Meta Vaux, coloured sculptress,
II, 293, 294.
Washington, D. C., freedmen's hospital
in, II, 174; coloured Y. M. C.
A., in 353, 354.
Washington, George, will of, frees
slaves, I, 193, 194; Negro Masons
attend funeral of, II, 151; letter of
concerning Phyllis Wheatley, 287.
Washington, George, former slave,
leaves $15,000 to Negro education,
II, 347.
Washington, Mrs. Booker T., first
president of National Federation of
Coloured Women's Clubs, II, 329.
Washington, settlement of Free Negroes
in Louisiana, I, 207.
Watkins, Frances Ellen, coloured antislavery
lecturer and writer, II, 319–
321.
Watkins, Rev. William, uncle of Ella
Watkins Harper, II, 319.
Watterson, Colonel Henry, on Negro
progress, II, 114.
W. C. T. U., work of, among the
coloured people, II, 326.
Weitzel, General Godfrey, commander
corps Negro soldiers, I, 331; letter
to General Butler, objecting to Negro
troop, I, 331.
Wells, Nelson, ante-bellum coloured
schoolmaster, II, 124.
Wells School, Baltimore, Md., established
by coloured men, II, 124.
West Hartford, Conn., birthplace of
Lemuel Haynes, first coloured Congregational
minister, II, 388.

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West Indies, Negro labour in, I, 118;
slave insurrections in, 171; A. M. E.
Church in, II, 332.
West Point, Negro students in, II,
390.
Westons, wealthy family free coloured
people, Charleston, S. C., I, 206, 207.
Wharton, Heber E., vice-principal
coloured school, Baltimore, Md.,
II, 359.
Wheatley, Mrs. John, purchases Negro
girl, Phyllis Wheatley, II, 286.
Wheatley, Phyllis, Negro poetess, II,
185–288.
Wheeler, Lloyd G., former business
agent, Tuskegee Institute, I, 286.
Whipper, William, coloured lumber
merchant, Columbia, Pa., agent
Underground Railway, I, 284, 285;
referred to, II, 18.
White, George H., coloured congressman,
II, 26; valedictory speech of,
26–28.
White, George L., teacher of Fisk
Jubilee Singers, II, 266.
White, William S., biographer of Jack
of Virginia, I, 267, 268.
Whitehead, Thomas, emancipates slave,
John, I, 197.
Whitney, Eli, inventor of cotton gin,
II, 122.
Whittier, John G., member antislavery
convention, 1833, I, 215;
description of Robert Purvis, 284;
poem on the daughters of James
Forten, 289, 290.
Wilberforce, O., Negro college town,
I, 233; early settlement of, 234, 236;
colony of free Negroes at, 236.
Wilberforce, Daniel Flickinger, native
African missionary, educated, Dayton,
O., II, 336–338.
Wilberforce University, Mary Church
Terrell teacher at, II, 325; origin of,
342; gifts to, by Negro, 347.
William, first Negro received into
Presbyterian Church, I, 272.
Williams, Bert, Negro comedian, II,
281.
Williams, Dr. Daniel H., Negro surgeon,
II, 180.
Williams, George W., on religious
and race prejudice in the colonies,
I, 91; account of slave conspiracy
in New York, 93; on first Negro
Methodist preacher, 258; on Negro
soldiers in Revolutionary War, 312;
soldier in Civil War, 325.
Williams, Lucius E., president coloured
bank, Savannah, Ga., II, 222.
Williams, Mrs. Sylvania, president
coloured women's club, New Orleans,
La., II, 326.
Willis, Edith, kidnapped and sold into
slavery, II, 175.
Wilson, Henry, on Quaker abolitionists,
I, 242; escorts first coloured U. S.
Senator to take oath of office, II,
12, referred to, 196.
Wilson, Rev. Hiram, aids in establishing
manual labour school for Negro
refugees in Canada, II, 243.
Wilson, Rev. Leighton, African
Missionary of the Southern Presbyterian
Church, I, 44, 45.
Winder, Ike, Negro criminal, cost of,
to State of Maryland, Md., II,
364.
Winsey, Dr. Whitfield, coloured physician,
Baltimore, Md., II, 359.
Winston-Salem, visit to, in 1905, II,
252.
Witch Doctors, I, 68–70.
Woods, Granville T., Negro inventor
of electrical appliances, II, 79.
Woolman, John, early Quaker abolitionist,
I, 242.
Woman's Era Club, coloured, Boston,
Mass., II, 328.
Women, coloured, work for education
of, II, 183; in poetry and arts, 286,
292, 293; power of sympathy of,
298; status of, in industries, 304;
part in anti-slavery struggle, 310;
represented at International Congress
of Women, Berlin, Germany,
325.
Women's Medical College, Philadelphia,
Pa., coloured woman graduate
of, II, 175.
Work, Henry, buys freedom of framily,
I, 195.

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Work, Monroe N., referred to, I, 195; on
Negro property holding, II, 42 224.
Wormeley, Ralph, slaves of, skilled
tradesmen, II, 60.
Worth, Governor Jonathan, before
North Carolina coloured political
convention, 1866, II, 16.
Wortham, Dr. James L., of North Carolina,
pupil of John Chavis; I, 274.
Wright, Elizabeth E. founder of,
Voorhees Industrial Institute, Denmark,
S. C., II, 183, 184.
Wright, Elizur, member anti-slavery
convention of 1833, I, 215.
Wright, Richard R., on Negro
explorers, II, 385.
Wright, Richard R., Jr., on land ownership
in Indiana, I, 241; in Cass
County, Mich., 248; on Negro
property owning, Chicago, Ill., II,
224; on Negro property owning,
Philadelphia, Pa., 256.
Wylie, Douglas H., former President
Chamber of Commerce Baltimore,
Md., supports work Coloured Law
and Order League, II, 362.
Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, Negro labourer
in I, 118; Negro settlement
in, II, 246; Negro town in, 371.
Y. M. C. A., story of, II, 351–355;
work of, in Louisville, Ky., 354; of
Baltimore, referred to, 358.
Yorubas, Negro translates Bible into
language of, II, 336.
Young, Dr. Howard E., coloured druggist,
Baltimore, Md., II, 359.
Young, First Lieutenant Charles, Negro
graduate of West Point, II, 390.
Zulu, takes oratorial honours at
Columbia University, II, 285.
Zuni, Indians, preserve legend of
Negro explorer, Estevan, II, 385.