[Footnote 32: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 38.]

[Footnote 33: Ibid., p. 39.]

[Footnote 34: Starr, What shall be done with the People of Color in the
United States
, p. 25; Ward, Contrabands, pp. 3, 4.]

[Footnote 35: It is said that Lincoln suggested colonizing the contrabands in South America.]

[Footnote 36: Atlantic Monthly, XII, p. 308.]

[Footnote 37: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, p. 671.]

[Footnote 38: Atlantic Monthly, XII, p. 309.]

[Footnote 39: Ibid., XII, pp. 310-311.]

[Footnote 40: Ibid., p. 311.]

[Footnote 41: Hamilton, Reconstruction in North Carolina, pp. 156, 157.]