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[225] .Adams, C. F., advocates the education of Negroes, [158] . Adams, John, first Colored teacher in the D. C., [183] . Adams, John Quincy, remarks on the death of William Costin, [192] . Adams, Rufus, opposes school for Colored children in Conn., [150] . Aden, D., letter on the bravery of Negro troops, [348] . Africa, imported slaves ordered to be returned to, [12] ;agents appointed by the United States for that purpose, [13] ; proposed colony of free Negroes on the coast, [51] ; a line of war steamers to be established, to suppress the slave-trade, promote commerce, and colonize the coast, [53] -[55] ; colonization of, by Negroes, opposed, [70] ; the "Amistad" captives returned to, [93] -[96] ; number of slaves imported from, [544] . African Methodist Episcopal Church, origin, growth, organization, and influence, [135] , [452] ;numerical and financial strength, missionary and educational spirit, [455] -[458] ; publishing house, periodicals, and papers, [458] , [459] ; report of Wilberforce University for 1876, [455] , [456] ; list of the faculty, [460] ; report and general statement, [462] -[464] ; list of bishops, [464] . African School Association established, [157] . Aggressive Anti-Slavery Party, the, [50] . Alabama, formation of the territory of, the most cruel of slave States, [3] ;slave population, 1820, [22] ; 1830, 1840, [99] ; 1850, [100] ; education of Negroes prohibited, [148] ; recedes from the Union, [232] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; represented in Congress by Negroes, [382] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institution for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Albany Atlas and Argus (The) denounces the Rev. Justin D. Fulton for his views on slavery, [243] . Alexander, Francis A., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [372] . Allegheny City, Pa., Avery College founded, [177] . Allen, Rev. Richard, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, [452] ;mentioned, [458] ; first bishop of the Church, [459] . Alton, Ill., mob destroy printing-press, [51] . Ambush, James Enoch, founds the Wesleyan Seminary, [194] . American Anti-Slavery Society, organized, [43] ; American Colonization Society, organized, list of officers, [52] ; American Missionary Association establish the first school for freedmen, at Fortress Monroe, [393] . "Amistad" captives, natives of Africa, sail from Havana on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," cruelly treated, take possession of the ship, alter her course for Africa, [93] ;captured by a United States vessel and carried to New London, Conn., their trial and release, tour through the United States, [94] ; return to Africa, [96] . Anderson, Rev. Duke William, Colored Baptist minister, birth, early life, and education, [476] -[478] ;farmer, teacher, preacher, and missionary, [479] -[492] ; his influence in the West, [493] -[496] ; pastor of the 19th Street Baptist Church at Washington, occupies various positions of trust, [497] ; builds a new church, [498] ; death and funeral, [499] , [500] ; resolutions on his death, [500] -[503] . Anderson, Ransom, testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [365] . Andrew, Gov. John A., authorizes the raising of Negro regiments, [289] . Andrew, William, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Anti-slavery, societies formed, [20] ;sentiment at the North, [22] ; agitation, 1825-1850, [31] -[36] ; speeches in the Legislature of Virginia, [33] -[35] ; methods, [37] -[60] ; antiquity of, sentiment, [38] ; newspapers established, [38] , [39] , [41] ; Garrison, leader of the, movement, [39] ; National Convention, number of societies in the United States, 1836, [44] ; Sumner's speech before the Whig party, [45] ; heterodox party, [48] ; economic party, [49] ; aggressive party, [50] ; colonization society, [51] ; American colonization society, [52] ; underground railroad organization, [58] ; literature, [59] , [60] ; efforts of free Negroes, [61] -[81] ; New England, Society, dissolution of Negro societies, [79] ; convention of the women of America, [80] ; prejudice against admitting Negroes into white societies, [81] ; friends of, instruct the "Amistad" captives, [94] ; the cause benefited by their stay in the United States, [96] ; violent treatment of, orators, [97] ; opposed, [98] ; John C. Calhoun opposed to, [104] . Appleton, John W. M., superintends the enlistment of Negro regiment in Mass., [289] . Appomattox, Va., bravery of Negro troops at the battle of, [344] . Arkansas, territory organized, [15] ;slave population, 1820, [22] , 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; opposed to the education of Negroes, [149] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Asbury, Francis, member of the first American Methodist Conference, [446] ;and bishop of the Church, [468] . Ashley, James M., opposes the return of fugitive slaves, [246] . Ashum Institute, founded, list of trustees, [178] . Attucks Guards, a Colored militia company, organized, [145] . Auchmuty, Rev. Samuel, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165] . Auld, Hugh, master of Frederick Douglass, [431] , [432] . Austin, James T., signs memorial against the increase of slavery, [16] . Avery, Rev. Charles, founder of the Avery College, [177] . Ball, Flamen, counsel for the Colored people in Cincinnati, [172] . Baltimore, Md., anti-slavery newspaper published, [38] ;cargo of slaves sent to New Orleans, to be sold, [40] ; Democratic and Whig conventions held at, 1852, 1853, [106] ; St. Frances Academy founded, [160] ; the Wells school established, [161] . Bancroft, George, views on the Declaration of Independence, [32] . Banks, Maj.-Gen. N. P., orders the enlistment of Negro troops, [290] ;official report on the battle of Port Hudson, [322] ; commends the Negro troops for their bravery, [323] . Baptist Church, Colored, organized, [135] ;the members an intelligent and useful people, [475] ; their leading ministers, [476] ; sketch of Duke William Anderson, [476] -[503] ; Leonard Andrew Grimes, [504] -[515] . Barclay, David, donates money to the Quakers, [174] . Barclay, Rev. Henry, advocates the education of Negro slaves, [165] . Bartram, Col. Nelson B., description of Colored regiment commanded by, [292] . Bassett, Lieut.-Col. Chauncey J., commands the 1st La. regiment of Colored troops at the battle of Port Hudson, [320] . Bassett, E. D., appointed U. S. minister to Hayti, [423] . Beams, Charlotte, establishes a school for Colored children, [213] . Beaufort, S. C., military savings bank for Negroes established, [403] . Beauregard, Gen. G. T., urges passage of the bill for the execution of prisoners, [270] . Bell, George, former slave, founds a Colored school, [182] . Becraft, Maria, sketch of, [195] , [196] . Benezet, Anthony, establishes Colored school in Philadelphia, 1750, [172] ;his will, donating money for education of the Colored people, [173] ; death, [174] . Bennington, Vt., anti-slavery newspaper published, [39] . Billing, Mary, establishes school for Colored children, [183] . Birney, Maj.-Gen. David B., bravery of Negro troops under his command, refuses to march his troops in the rear of the whites, [344] . Birney, James G., member of the heterodox and aggressive anti-slavery party, [48] , [50] ;his newspaper destroyed by a mob, [51] . Black Regiment, the, a poem by George H. Boker, [324] . Blake, George, signs memorial against the increase of slavery, [16] . Bleecker, John, mentioned, [166] . Blunt, Maj.-Gen. James G., letter on the bravery of Negro troops, [346] . Boardman, Richard, member of the first American Methodist Conference, [466] . Boker, George H., The Black Regiment, a poem by, [324] . Boiling, P. A., speech against slavery in the Legislature of Virginia, [34] . Boon vs. Juliet, case of, mentioned, [120] . Booth, Maj. L. F., in command of Fort Pillow, his death, [360] ;Gen. Forrest commends his bravery for the defence of the fort, [368] . Border States, number of troops furnished by, [300] . Boston, Mass., meeting in opposition to the increase of slavery, held in, 1819, [16] ;William Lloyd Garrison mobbed, [97] ; first school for Colored children, 1798, Colored schools, Baptist Church, [162] ; meeting for the relief of Kansas, [216] ; amount of money and arms supplied, [216] , [218] . Boyd, Henry, sketch of, [138] , [140] . Boyd, Marshall William, see Taylor, Rev. Marshall M. Boyle, Brig.-Gen. Jeremiah T., orders the return of fugitive slaves, [245] . Bradford, Major W. F., in command at Fort Pillow, surrenders, [360] . Briscoe, Isabella, establishes school for Colored children, [212] . Brooke, Samuel, member of the heterodox anti-slavery party, [48] . Brown, Daniel, principal of Catholic Colored school, [213] . Brown, John, member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, [50] ;mentioned, [82] ; hero and martyr, his birth, personal description of, [214] ; arrives in Kansas, denounces slavery in a political meeting at Osawatomie, [215] ; at Boston, [216] ; urges aid for the fugitive slaves, secures arms for the defence of Kansas, [218] ; his plan for freeing the slaves, [219] ; extract of a letter while in prison in regard to the attack on Harper's Ferry, plan for the rescue of, [220] ; instructions of, before the attack on Harper's Ferry, denies the charges of murder, treason, or rebellion, desires only the freedom of slaves, [222] ; descendant of a revolutionary officer, [223] ; in Ohio and Canada, matures his plan's for the attack, purchases farm near Harper's Ferry, amount of arms under his control, attack on Harper's Ferry, [224] ; defeat, capture, and execution, [225] ; last letter to Mrs. George Steams, [226] ; his influence upon the slavery question at the North, place in history, [227] ; held his first convention, list of the members, [495] . Brown, John M., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464] . Brown, Robert, establishes school for Colored children, [207] . Bruce, Blanche K., his birth, enslavement, secures his freedom, education, [444] ;removes to Miss., appointed sergeant-at-arms of the State Senate, sheriff of Bolivar Co., chosen U. S. Senator, [445] ; candidate for Vice-Presidency, appointed Register of the U. S. Treasury, [446] . Bryan, Joseph, petitions Congress for a line of mail steam-ships to the Western Coast of Africa, [53] . Buchanan, George, oration on the moral and political evil of slavery, 1791, mentioned, [38] . Buchanan, James, in sympathy with the South, refuses military support to Gov. Geary, [110] . Buell, Brig.-Gen. D. C., letter to J. R. Underwood on the return of fugitive slaves to their masters, [248] . Bulkley, I., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, [156] . Bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, established, [398] ; Burling, Thomas, mentioned, [166] . Burns, Francis, bishop of the M. E. Church, [469] . Burnside, Maj.-Gen., Ambrose E., orders the arrest of two free Negroes, [244] ;proclamation protecting slave property, [248] ; services of Negro troops at the siege of Petersburg, commanded by, [341] , [342] . Butler, Maj.-Gen., Benjamin F., letter to Gen. Scott, declaring slaves contraband of war, [250] ;orders the employment of Negroes for fatigue duty, calls for the enlistment of free Negroes, [287] ; outlawed by Jefferson Davis, [354] , [359] ; establishes military savings-bank for Negroes, [403] . [464] .Calhoun, John C., his followers favor a demolition of the Union, [98] ;speech in the United States Senate in favor of slavery, [103] -[105] ; in favor of State rights, [230] . California, resolution in regard to the admission into the Union, [100] , [101] . Callioux, Capt. Andre, bravery at the battle of Port Hudson, [318] , [321] ; Cameron, Simon, letter to Gen. Butler approving his action of declaring slaves contraband of war, [251] ;order in regard to enlistment of troops, [278] . Campbell, H. G., commanding naval officer at Charleston, S. C., circular letter to, in regard to the importation of slaves, [10] . Campbell, Jabez P., delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, [422] ; Canada, Negroes settle in, [66] , [70] , [71] ;Negro colonization of, opposed, [72] . Cannon, Gov. William, requests the enlistment of Negroes in Delaware, [291] . Canterbury, Conn., protest of the citizens against admitting Colored pupils to school, [150] , [151] ;school abolished by act of the Legislature, [152] , [153] ; school-house mobbed, [156] . Carey, Mary Ann Shadd, lecturer, writer, and school-teacher, [419] . Carney, William H., sergeant in the 54th Mass. Regiment Colored Troops, his bravery at the assault on Fort Wagner, plants the colors of the regiment on the fort, [329] -[331] . Carrollton, La., fugitive slaves offer their services to the army, [285] . Casey, Maj.-Gen. Silas, letter endorsing the free military school for Negroes, [296] . Cass, Lewis, speech in reply to Calhoun, in the United States Senate, on slavery, [105] . Chalmers, Brig.-Gen. James R., his connection with the Fort Pillow massacre, [375] . Champion, James, representative of Phila. in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Chapin's Farm, Va., Negro troops engage in the battle of, [335] . Chapman, Maria Weston, her opinion of the American Anti-Slavery Society, [79] . Charleston, S. C., the Negro plot of 1822, [83] . "Charleston Mercury" (The) on the exchange of captured Negro soldiers, [358] . Charlton, Rev. Richard, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165] . Chase, Salmon P., speech against the repeal of the Missouri compromise, [109] . Chauncey, Isaac, letter to Captain Perry defending the enlistment of Negroes in the U. S. Navy, [29] . Child, Adventur, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, [126] . "Choctaw," gun-boat, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, [326] . Cincinnati, Ohio, mob destroys newspaper, [51] ;report on the condition of the Colored people, 1835, [136] -[138] ; prominent Colored men of, [138] -[143] ; home for Colored orphans established, [144] ; the Attucks Guards organized, [145] ; Colored schools established, [170] -[172] . Cinquez, Joseph, son of an African prince, one of the "Amistad" captives, leads in the capture of the ship, [93] ;tour through the United States, describes his capture, [94] ; returns to Africa, [96] . Clarkson, Mathew, mentioned, [166] . Clay, Cascius M., member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, [50] ; Clay, Henry, mentioned, [20] ;favors colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, [52] ; resolutions in Congress for the adjustment of the slavery question, [101] . Cleaveland, C. F., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, [156] . Coggeshall, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, [126] . Cogswell, James, mentioned, [166] . Coke, Rev. Thomas, ordained bishop of the Methodist societies in America, [465] . Coker, Daniel, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Colgan, Rev. Thomas, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165] . Colonization Anti-Slavery Society, objects of the, [51] . Colorado, number of Negro troops furnished by, [300] . Columbian Institute, Washington, D. C., [186] . Columbus, Ky., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, [345] . Confederate States, organized, [232] ;list of delegates to the convention, [232] , [233] ; Jefferson Davis chosen President, Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President, Constitution adopted, [233] ; impress Negroes to build fortifications, [261] ; effect of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, [271] ; Negroes in the service of the, [277] ; resolutions of their Congress against the military employment of Negroes by the U. S., [350] , [351] ; white officers commanding Negro troops against the, and Negroes captured in arms against the, to be executed, the first to employ Negro soldiers, [352] ; refuse to exchange Negro prisoners, [355] -[357] ; proclamation of Jefferson Davis outlawing Gen. Butler, [358] ; reconstruction of the, [377] -[383] ; provisional military government established, [379] . Connecticut, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] , 1820, [22] ;prejudice against Colored schools, [149] ; school abolished by act of Legislature, [152] , [153] ; school-house mobbed, [157] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Convention of the people of color, 1831, report on the condition of free Negroes in the United States, [62] ;on the establishment of a college, [63] ; provisional committee appointed in each city, [64] ; conventional address, [65] -[68] ; second convention, 1832, [68] ; resolutions on colonization, [70] ; conventional address, [75] -[78] . Cook, D. R., organizes company of Negro troops, [277] . Cook, Eliza Anne, establishes school for Colored children, [211] . Cook, Major John B., Negro troops commanded by, capture redoubt at Petersburg, Va., [339] . Cook, Rev. John F., sketch of, [187] -[191] ; Coppin, Mrs. Fanny M. See Jackson, Fanny M. Cornish, Alexander, establishes school for Colored children, [209] . Costin, Louisa Parke, establishes school for Colored children, [192] , [193] . Costin, William, his death, [192] ; Coxe, R. S., emancipates slave, [210] . Crandall, Prudence, establishes a school in Conn., admits Colored pupil, [149] ; Cuff, Peter, representative of Salem, N. J., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Cuffe, John and Paul, free Negroes, petition for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, [126] , [127] . Cumberland, Department of the, Negro troops recruited for, [294] . Cumings, Mrs. Elizabeth, school of, mentioned, [471] . [193] .Darnes, Mary A., address to the Attucks Guards of Cincinnati, [145] . Davis, Jefferson, speech in the U. S. Senate, on the right to hold slaves, [102] ;chosen president of the Confederate States, [233] ; his message to the Confederate Government, [234] ; views on President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, [271] , [350] ; proclamation outlawing Gen. Butler, [359] ; plantation of, owned by Negroes, [414] ; succeeded in the U. S. Senate by a Negro, [423] . Davis, John, Negro sailor, his bravery and death, [30] . Deep Bottom, Va., Negro troops engage in the battle of, [335] . De Grasse, John T., first Colored member of the Mass. Medical Society, [133] ; Delaware, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] ;in favor of restriction of slavery, [16] ; slave population, 1820, [22] ; Quakers emancipate their slaves, [35] ; slave population, 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; tax on slaves, added to the school fund for the education of white children, [157] ; order for the enlistment of Negroes, [291] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] . Deloach, C., organizes company of Negro troops, [277] . Democratic Party, convention of, 1853, nominates Franklin Pierce for the Presidency, defines its position on the slavery question, [106] . De Mortie, Louis, her birth, education, public reader, secures funds for the erection of an asylum for Colored orphans, her death, [449] . De Peyster, Maj.-Gen. J. Watts, advocates the employment of Negroes as soldiers, [276] . Dickerson, William F., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464] . District of Columbia, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] , 1820, [22] ;petition of Garrison for the abolition of slavery in, [39] ; slave population, 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; schools for the education of the Negro population, [182] -[213] ; Lincoln in favor of the abolishing of slavery in the, [237] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; Negro school population, 1871, 1876, [387] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] , [393] . Dix, Maj.-Gen. John A., proclamation protecting slave property, [246] . Dixon, Archibald, introduces bill in Congress for the repeal of the Missouri compromise, [108] . Dodge, Henry, introduces bill in Congress to organize the territory of Nebraska, [107] . Douglass, Frederick, his book "My Bondage, and My Freedom," 59;mentioned, [79] , [81] ; delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, [422] ; birth, enslavement, [424] ; escapes to the North, marries, life as a freeman, [425] ; becomes an anti-slavery orator, [426] ; publishes the experiences of a "fugitive slave," leaves for Great Britain, [427] ; letter to William Lloyd Garrison, [428] ; his freedom purchased, copy of freedom papers, [431] ; his former name when a slave, how he received his present one, [431] , [432] ; returns to America, [432] ; reasons for leaving the Garrisonian party, establishes the newspaper "North Star," 433; his eloquence, [434] , [437] ; influence and career, [437] , [438] ; death of his wife, [437] ; mentioned, [471] . Douglass, Margaret, arrested for instructing Negroes, [181] . Douglass, Stephen A., speech in favor of the repeal of the Missouri compromise, [108] ; Douty, Lieut. Jacob, fires the mine at the siege of Petersburg, Va., [341] . Dow, Jesse E., urges the establishment of a free Colored public school in the D. C., [209] . Dunlap, George W., resolution in Congress, opposing the enlistment of Negroes, [282] . Durham, Rev. Clayton, representative of Phila., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Dutch Gap, Va., excavated by Negroes, [262] . Dwight, Brig.-Gen. William, orders the Negro troops to capture a battery at the battle of Port Hudson, [318] . [8] .Economic Anti-Slavery Party, [49] . Edwards, G. G., describes the bravery of Negro troops, [327] . Edwards, Samuel, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton County, Va., [87] . Elsworth, W. W., counsel for Prudence Crandall, [156] . Embree, Lawrence, mentioned, [166] . Embury, Phillip, one of the founders of M. E. Church in New York, [465] . Emerson, Dr., owner of the Negro slave Dred Scott, [114] . Emerson, R. W., his opinion of John Brown, [217] . Emancipation proclamations, [255] , [257] , [263] -[275] ; [335] .Faneuil Hall, Boston, meeting for the relief of Kansas, [216] . Farmville, Va., Negro troops engaged in the battle of, [335] . Faulkner, C. J., speech against slavery in the Legislature of Virginia, [35] . Ferrer, Capt. Ramon, commander of the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 93. Ferrero, Brig.-Gen. Edward, Negro troops under the command of, defeat the Hampton Legion, [349] . Finnegas, Lieut.-Col. Henry, commands the 3d La. Regiment of Colored Troops at the battle of Port Hudson, [320] . Fish, Hamilton, certifies the ratification of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [421] . Fleet, John H., establishes a school for Colored children, [207] , [208] . Florida, slave population, 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ;proceeds of the sale of slaves added to the school-fund, [158] ; secedes from the Union, [232] ; Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, [257] ; rescinded, [258] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; represented in Congress by Negroes, [382] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Follen, Rev. Mr., speech in support of resolution on anti-slavery, [80] . Ford, Mrs. George, establishes a school for Colored children, [207] . Forrest, Maj.-Gen., N. B., attacks Fort Pillow, demands its surrender, orders the massacre of Negro soldiers, [360] , [361] ;testimony against his inhuman treatment of Negroes, [361] -[375] ; commends the bravery of the U. S. soldiers, [368] ; his conduct endorsed, [375] . Fort Gibson, Ark., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, [313] . Fort Mackinac, Mich., Negro sailors at, [28] . Fort Pillow, Tenn., defended by Union troops, refuse to capitulate, [360] ;massacre of the Negro soldiers, [360] , [361] ; testimony in regard to the massacre, [361] -[375] ; Gen. Forrest commends the bravery of the U. S. soldiers, [368] . Fort Wagner, S. C., assault on, Negro regiment leads the charge, [308] , [313] , [328] , [329] . Forte, Sarah, verses on the Negro, [81] . Forten, James, his subscription to the "Liberator," 43. Fortress Monroe, Va., first school for freedmen established at, [393] . Fortune, Charlotte L., her education, literary abilities, [450] . Foster, Gov. Charles, appoints Negro to office, [447] ;one of the leaders of the Republican Party in the contest over the electoral count of 1876, [521] ; his speech on "a solid North against a solid South," 525, [526] . Foster, Col. John A., letter on the bravery of the Negro troops, [348] . Franklin, Jesse, his report against the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indian Territory, [7] . Franklin, Nicholas, former slave, establishes a Colored school, [182] . Free Mission Institute, Ill., destroyed by a mob, [159] . Free Soil Party, organized, [46] . Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company, incorporated, list of the trustees, [403] , [404] ;act incorporating, amended, [407] ; organized, [408] ; reports, [408] -[410] ; total amount deposited, failure, commissioners appointed to settle the affairs of the, [411] , [412] ; dividends, [413] . Freedmen's Bureau, established, [379] ; Friends, see Quakers. Fry, Brig.-Gen., orders the return of fugitive slaves, [246] . Fugitive-Slave Law, of 1793, condemned, [2] ;amended, [10] ; of 1850, [106] ; recognized in Ohio, [112] ; passed in Kansas, [215] ; Lincoln opposed to the repeal of the, [237] . Fulton, Rev. Justin D., preaches the funeral sermon of Col. Elsworth, views on slavery, [242] , [243] . [83] .Gaillard, Nicholas, representative of Baltimore, in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Gaines, John I., urges the claims of the Colored people to school-fund in Cincinnati, [171] . Galveston, Texas, captured Negro soldiers sold into slavery, [353] . Garnet, Henry Highland, mentioned, [79] , [134] . Garnett, James M., reports in favor of the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, [5] . Garrison, William Lloyd, leader of the anti-slavery movement, edits newspapers, petitions Congress for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, [39] ;favors immediate emancipation, imprisoned for libel, [40] ; released, establishes the "Liberator," 41; extract from his article on the abolition of slavery, [41] , [42] ; organizes the American Anti-Slavery Society, [43] ; mentioned, [63] ; opposed to the colonization of Negroes in Liberia, [70] , [75] ; mobbed at Boston, [97] ; address at the Framingham celebration, [98] ; mentioned, [425] , [426] ; Frederick Douglass's letter to, [428] ; his views on slavery, [433] . Garrisanian Party, mentioned, [44] ;in favor of the dissolution of the Union, [98] . Gedney, Lieut., Thomas R., captures the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 94. Georgetown, D. C., Colored schools, [206] , [207] . Georgia, slave population, 1800, [2] ;cedes territory for the formation of Alabama and Mississippi, [3] ; slave population, 1810, [9] , 1820, [22] , 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; education of Negroes' prohibited, [158] , secedes from the Union, [232] ; Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, [257] , rescinded, [258] ; expedition of Negro regiment into, [314] ; represented in Congress by Negroes, [382] ; number of slaves, 1860, Negro school population, 1876, [387] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; elects Negro representative to Congress, [423] . Gilmore, Rev. Hiram S., founder of the Cincinnati High School, [171] . Goddard, Calvin, counsel for Prudence Crandall, [156] . Gooch, D. W., one of the committee of investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre, [361] . Gordon, Charlotte, establishes a school for Colored children, [213] . "Governor Tompkins," armed schooner, bravery of Negro sailors on board of the, [30] . Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., orders the attack on Petersburg, [336] , [337] ;carries the Southern States in the presidential elections of 1868 and 1872, [382] ; special message to Congress on ratification of the fifteenth amendment, [420] ; appoints Negroes in the diplomatic service, [423] ; not responsible for the decline and loss of the republican State governments at the South, [518] . Grant, Nancy, establishes a school for Colored children, [206] . Gray, Samuel, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation, in Mass., 1780, [125] . Greeley, Horace, leader of the economic anti-slavery party, [49] ;letter to President Lincoln on slavery, [253] ; Lincoln's reply, [254] ; newspaper editorials on Negro troops, [303] -[307] ; opposed to the resolutions of the Confederate Congress in regard to Negro troops, [356] . Green, John P., his struggles to obtain an education, successful orator, lawyer, and statesman, [447] , [448] . Greener, Richard Theodore, his early life, [438] ;education, first Colored graduate of Harvard University, [439] ; principal of the Institute for Colored Youth, and Sumner High School, accepts the Chair of Metaphysics and Logic in the University of S. C., Dean of the Law Department of Howard University, graduates from the Law School of the University of S. C., literary career, [440] ; the intellectual position of the Negro, a reply to James Parton's article on the antipathy to the Negro, [441] ; speech at the dinner of the Harvard Club, [442] . 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