Страница - 239 Страница - 241 [183] .Hall, Primus, first school for Colored children, held in the house of, 1798, [162] . Hallock, Maj.-Gen., Henry W., forbids fugitive slaves entering the army, [247] , [248] . Hamilton, Paul, circular letter to H. G. Campbell, in regard to the importation of slaves, [10] . Hammond, Eliza Ann, arrested for attending school in Conn., [152] . Hampton, Va., school for the education of Negroes, [394] ;normal and agricultural institute, [395] . Hampton, Fanny, establishes school for Colored children, [207] . Hampton Legion, defeated by Negro troops, [349] . Harden, Henry, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Harper, Frances Ellen, essayist and lecturer, [419] . Harper's Ferry, Va., operations of John Brown at, [222] , [224] . Harris, Sarah, protests of the citizens of Canterbury, Conn., against her attending school, [150] . Hartford, Conn., establishes a separate school for Colored children, [149] . Harvard University, first Colored graduate, [439] . Hatcher's Run, Va., Negro troops engaged in the battle of, [335] . Havana, Cuba, Spanish slaver "Amistad" sails from, with slaves, [93] . Hayard, Elisha, mentioned, [187] ;school-house destroyed by a mob, [189] . Hayes, Alexander, establishes school for Colored children, [209] ;emancipated, his marriage, [210] . Hayes, Rutherford B., failure of his Southern policy, [522] -[524] . Hayti, opposition to the colonization of, by free Negroes, [70] ;E. D. Bassett appointed Minister to, [423] . Heck, Barbara, foundress of American Methodism, [465] . Helena, Ark., bravery of Negro troops at battle of, [313] . Helper, Hinton R., influence of his book the "Impending Crisis," 60. Henderson, Rev. Henry, school of, mentioned, [471] . Henry, Patrick, opposed to slavery, [33] . Heterodox Anti-Slavery Party, the platform of the, [48] . Higginson, Col. Thomas Wentworth, description of regiment of Colored Troops commanded by, [304] ;expedition into Georgia, [314] . Hildreth, Joseph, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165] . Hill, Margaret, establishes school for Colored children, [209] . Hill, Stephen, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Hinks, Brig.-Gen. Edward W., commands brigade of Negro troops at the battle of Petersburg, Va., [336] , [339] , [346] . Holt, Joseph, letter to the Secretary of War on the enlistment of slaves, [307] . Honey Springs, Ark., bravery of Negro troops at the battle of, [346] . Hooker, Maj.-Gen. Joseph, order in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, [249] . Hosier, Rev. Harry, first Negro preacher in the M. E. Church in America, [466] ; Houston, Gen. Samuel, proposition to Congress on the admission of California and New Mexico, [100] , [101] ;maintains Congress has no authority to prohibit or interfere with slavery, [101] . Howard, Maj.-Gen. O. O. appointed Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, his report on schools established by the bureau, [385] ;in charge of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, [398] ; report, [399] , [400] . Howland, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, [126] . Huddlestone, William, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165] . Humphreys, Richard, founder of the Institute for Colored Youth, [176] . Hunter, Maj.-Gen. David, proclamation emancipating slaves, [257] ;rescinded by President Lincoln, [258] ; organizes Negro regiment, [278] ; official correspondence with the Secretary of War, respecting the enlistment of Negroes, [279] , [280] ; asks to be relieved of his command, [284] ; outlawed by Jefferson Davis, [354] . Hunter, Rev. William H., establishes school for Colored people, [212] . [9] , 1820, [22] , 1830, 1840, [99] ;first constitution, Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians exempted from militia service, free Negroes required to produce certificate of freedom, persons bringing slaves into, for the purpose of emancipating, to give bonds, [122] ; criminal code enacted, Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians declared incompetent to be witnesses, Act to prevent the immigration of free Negroes into, [123] ; separate schools for Colored children established, the Free Mission Institute destroyed by mob, [159] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] ; Negro elected to the Legislature, [447] . Indiana, slave population in the territory of, 1800, [2] ;William Henry Harrison, appointed governor, [3] ; memorial to Congress for the modification of the ordinance of 1787, [4] -[8] ; slave population, 1810, [9] , 1820, [22] ; law in regard to executions against the time of service of slaves, [119] , [121] ; Act for the introduction of Negroes, [120] ; first constitution, Negroes excluded from giving testimony, Act regulating free Negroes, [121] ; Negroes denied the right of suffrage, [159] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Indians, list of, ordered to leave Mass., [130] . Institute for Colored Youth, established, [176] . Iowa, number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ;ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . "Isaac Smith," gun-boat, free Negroes captured from, [354] . [245] ;leaves for Michigan, [246] . Jackson, Andrew, proclamation of, calling for Negro troops, War of 1812, [25] ;orders the suppression of the Snow riot at Washington, D. C., [189] . Jackson, Edward, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Jackson, Fanny M., her birth, education, [448] ; Jackson, Rev. Henry, Negroes excluded from the church of, [430] . Jarrot vs. Jarrot, case of, mentioned, [120] . Jay, John, president of the N. Y. Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, [167] . Jefferson, Thomas, recommends the abolishing of the slave-trade, [8] ;predicts the abolition of slavery, [33] ; condemns slavery, [35] . Jerusalem Court-House, Va., Negro insurrection at, 1831, [88] . Johnson, John, Negro sailor, his bravery and death, [30] . Jordan, Thomas, letter to Col. B. R. Rhett, Jr., relative to the refusal of the Confederate army to exchange captured Negro soldiers, [358] . Jordan vs. Smith, case of, mentioned, [113] . "Journal of the Times" (The), anti-slavery newspaper, advocates the claims of John Quincy Adams, [39] . Judah, Brig.-Gen., H. M., orders the return of fugitive slaves, [245] . Judge, Philadelphia, former slave to Martha Washington, [193] . Judson, Andrew T., decision in the case of the "Amistad" captives, [94] ;advocates resolutions against school for Colored children in Conn., [150] ; secures enactment of a law abolishing the same, [152] ; counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, [156] . [215] ;infested by border ruffians, aid for the relief of, [216] ; arms purchased for the defence of, [218] ; plan of John Brown for the freedom of slaves in, [219] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] ; freedmen's relief association, organized, [536] . Kentucky, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] ;opposed to the restriction of slavery, [16] ; slave population, 1820, [22] , 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; slave laws retard the education of the Negroes, [159] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] . King, John, member of the first American Methodist Conference, [466] . Ku Klux, a secret organization, objects of, [382] . [168] .Langston, John Mercer, born a slave, education, services, Resident Minister and Consul-General to Hayti, [446] . Lake Erie, N. Y., Negro sailor represented in the picture of Perry's victory on, [28] ;bravery of the Negro sailors at the battle of, [30] . Lancaster County, Pa., free public Colored school, [206] . Lawrence, John, mentioned, [166] . Lawrence, Kansas, sacked and burned by a mob, [215] . Lawrence, Nathaniel, mentioned, [166] . Leaman, Jacob, mentioned, [166] . Leaman, Willett, mentioned, [166] . Ledlie, Brig.-Gen., James H., attempts to fire the mine at the siege of Petersburg, Va., [341] . Lee, General Fitz-Hugh, defeated by Negro troops at the battle of Wilson's Wharf, [335] . Lee, William Thomas, his school for Colored children burned, [205] ;threatened by mob, [206] . Leming, Lieut., Mc J., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [367] . Lenox, Walter, opposed to the education of Colored people, [201] . Leonard, Rev. Chauncey, his school for Colored children destroyed by mob, [192] . Lewis, Edmonia, Negro sculptress, sketch of, [450] . "Lexington," gun-boat, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, [326] . "Liberator" (The), anti-slavery newspaper, established, [41] . Liberia, proposed colony of free Negroes at, [51] , [54] , [56] ;protest against the colonization, [70] . Lincoln, Abraham, in favor of the Union of the States, [230] ;speech against slavery, [232] ; his answers to Stephen A. Douglass' questions on slavery, [237] -[239] ; in favor of gradual emancipation, elected President of the United States, [239] ; his inaugural address regarding slavery, [240] ; letter in reply to Horace Greeley, on slavery, [254] ; to Gen. Fremont, disproving his proclamation emancipating slaves in Missouri, [256] ; rescinds proclamation of Gen. Hunter, [258] ; conservative policy of, [259] ; his reasons for not issuing emancipation proclamation, [264] -[266] ; issues emancipation proclamation, [267] -[269] ; second proclamation, [272] ; opposed to the enlistment of Negroes, [278] ; authorizes the enlistment of Negro troops, [285] ; second call for troops, [287] ; his order in regard to prisoners of war, [355] . Lincoln University, see Ashum Institute. Littlefield, Col. M. S., letter describing the bravery of Sergeant William II. Carney at the assault on Fort Wagner, [331] . Liverpool, Moses, former slave, erects Colored school, [182] . Livingston, Edward, address to the Negro troops before the battle of New Orleans, [26] . Loguen, Bishop, his book, "As a Slave and as a Freeman," mentioned, [59] . Longworth, Nicholas, builds the first school-house for Colored people in Cincinnati, [172] . Louisiana, slave population in, and territory of, 1810>, [9] ,1820, [22] ;bravery of the Negro troops of, at the battle of New Orleans, [27] ; slave population, 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; education of Negroes prohibited, [160] ; secedes from the Union, [232] ; fugitive slaves offer their services in the army, [285] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; bravery of the 1st regiment, Negroes, at the battle of Port Hudson, [317] -[324] , [345] ; the 9th and 11th regiments, Negroes, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, [326] , [327] ; represented in Congress by Negroes, [382] ; Negro population in excess of the white, [386] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] , [393] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Lovejoy, E. P., member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, [50] ; Lundy, Benjamin, earliest advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, establishes anti-slavery newspaper, 1821, [38] ;his sacrifices and work in the cause of emancipation, [38] , [39] ; visits William Lloyd Garrison, favors gradual emancipation, [40] ; colonization of manumitted slaves, [51] ; mentioned, [63] , [73] . [249] ;Secretary Seward's letter to, in regard to fugitive slaves, [263] . McCoy, Benjamin M., one of the founders of Colored Sunday-school at Washington, D. C., [187] ;takes charge of public Colored school in Pa., [189] ; school for Colored children, [206] . McCrady, John, chief engineer of Georgia, ordered to impress Negroes to build fortifications, [261] . McLeod, John, in favor of the education of the Colored people, [186] . Madden, Rev. Samuel, a Colored Baptist minister, [476] . Madison, James, opposed to slavery, [33] ;president of the American Colonization Society, [52] . Maine, bill for the admission of, into the Union, [16] ;admitted, [18] ; equal school privileges granted to Negroes, [160] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Malcom, Rev. Howard, favors the colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, [52] . Mallory, Col., fugitive slaves of, declared contraband of war, [250] . Mann, Horace, favors the colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, [52] . Marechal, Rev. Ambrose, in favor of the education of the Negroes, [161] . Marsh, Jacob, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Maryland, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] , 1820, [22] ;Quakers emancipate their slaves, [35] ; slave population, 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; Negroes excluded from the schools, St. Frances Academy founded, [160] ; the Wells school established, [161] ; order for the enlistment of Negroes, [290] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] , [393] . Massachusetts, petition of the free Negroes for relief from taxation, 1780, [126] , [127] ;law preventing Negroes from other States from settling in, [127] ; notice to Negroes, Indians, and Mulattoes warning them to leave, [128] ; list of the same, [128] , [129] ; first school for Colored children, [162] ; number of Negro troops, furnished, [299] ; captured Negro soldiers from, sold into slavery, [353] . Massachusetts General Colored Association, [78] ;letter to New England Anti-Slavery Society desiring to become auxiliary to the latter, [79] . Massachusetts Medical Society, first Colored member admitted to the, [133] . Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, amount of money furnished for the relief of Kansas, [216] , [218] . Massachusetts Volunteers, 54th regiment, first Colored troops raised at the North, [289] ;at James Island, [328] , [335] ; march to Morris Island, [328] , [329] , [332] ; assault Fort Wagner, and plant the colors of the regiment on the fort, [329] ; Edward L. Pierce's letter describing the valor and losses of the regiment, [331] ; Gen. Strong commends the bravery of the regiment, [334] . Mattock, White, mentioned, [166] . May, Rev. Samuel J., in favor of education of Colored children in Conn., [150] , [151] , [153] , [157] .Memphis, Tenn., Negro troops raised for the Confederate States, [277] ; fort garrisoned by Negroes, [345] . Mercer, Brig.-Gen. Hugh W., order to impress Negroes to build fortifications, [261] . Methodist Episcopal Church founded, Negro servants and slaves contributors to the erection of the first chapel in New York, 1768, [465] ;first American annual conference, [465] , [466] ; first Negro preacher in the, [466] ; opposed to slavery, [467] ; organized, interested in the welfare of the Negro, [468] ; strength of the churches and Sunday-schools of the Colored members in the, [469] . Michigan, slave population in the territory of, 1810, [9] ;number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Middleton, Charles H., establishes school for Colored children, [207] , [208] . Milliken's Bend., La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, [308] , [313] , [326] , [345] . Miner, Myrtilla, establishes seminary for Colored girls, [196] ; Minnesota, number of Negro troops furnished by, [300] ;ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Minot, William, address at the dedication of the Smith school-house, [162] . Mississippi, slave population in territory of, 1800, [2] ;one of the most cruel of slave States, [3] ; formation of the territory of, [3] ; slave population, 1810, [9] ; applies for admission into the Union with a slave constitution, [9] ; slave population, 1820, [22] , 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; education of Negroes prohibited, conduct of slaves regulated, preaching the Gospel by slaves declared unlawful, [163] ; secedes from the Union, [232] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [300] ; 1st regiment of Negroes at the battle of Milliken's Bend, [326] ; represented in Congress by Negroes, [382] ; Negro population in excess of the white, [386] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] , [393] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Missouri, applies for admission into the Union, [14] ;Arkansas formed from, [15] ; controversy, [16] -[20] ; admitted into the Union, [20] ; slave population, 1820, [22] , 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; Negroes ordered to leave the State, education prohibited, [163] ; order for the enlistment of Negroes, [290] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [300] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Mitchell, Charles L., member of the Legislature of Mass., [446] . Mobile, Ala., educational privileges granted to the free Creoles, [148] . Monroe, James, message to Congress in regard to the slave-trade, [12] . Montes, Don Pedro, passenger on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," compelled by the slaves to navigate the ship, [93] ;charged with piracy, [94] . Montgomery, Ala., Confederate States organized, [232] . Morgan, Rev. J. V. B., establishes school for Colored children, [209] . Morris, Catharine, contributes money for the education of Colored people, [199] . Morris Island, S. C., battle on, Negro regiment leads the assault, [313] , [328] , [329] . Morsell, Judge James, interested in the education of Colored people, [207] . Mott, Lydia P., establishes a home for Colored orphans, [144] . Murfreesboro, Tenn., captured Negro soldiers massacred at, [353] . Murray, John, Jr., mentioned, [166] . Muse, Lindsay, one of the founders of Colored Sunday-school at Washington, D. C., [186] . Mussey, Captain R. D., superintends the recruiting of Negro troops, [294] . [425] .Nashville, Tenn., Negroes in the Confederate service, [277] ; Negro troops recruited, [294] ; engaged in the battle of, [342] . Natchez, Miss., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, [345] . National anti-slavery convention, held in Phila., 1833, [44] . Neau, Elias, establishes a school for Negro slaves, in New York, 1704;pupils accused of being concerned in the Negro plot, his life threatened, [164] ; his death, [165] . Nebraska, bill introduced in Congress, to organize the territory of, [107] , [110] ;number of troops furnished by, [300] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Negroes, free, sold as slaves, [2] ;premium to informer of illegally imported, seized in the United States, [10] ; imported to St. Mary's, [10] ; to be returned to Africa, [12] ; serve in the War of 1812, [23] -[27] ; Gen. Jackson's proclamation calling for Negro troops, [25] ; Gen. Livingston's address, [26] ; rated as chattel property, their valor in war secures them immunity in peace, at the battle of New Orleans, [27] ; in the United States Navy, [28] -[30] ; at Fort Mackinac, 1814, [28] ; their treatment as sailors, Captain Perry's letter to Commodore Chauncey, complaining of the men sent him, [28] ; Commodore Chauncey's reply, [29] ; at the battle of Lake Erie, represented in the picture of Perry's victory on Lake Erie, letter of Nathaniel Shaler commending the bravery of the sailors under his command, [30] ; military services, [32] ; proposed colony of free, at Liberia, [51] , [54] , [56] ; authors of anti-slavery literature, [59] ; anti-slavery efforts of free, [61] -[81] ; conventions of the people of color, [61] -[79] ; condition of free, in United States, [62] , [67] ; proposed college for, [63] ; settle in Canada, [66] , [71] , [73] ; opposed to colonization in Liberia and Hayti, [70] ; leave Ohio, for Canada, [71] , [76] ; colonization of Upper Canada, opposed, [72] ; dissolution of anti-slavery societies composed of, [79] ; prejudice against admitting, into white societies, eloquence of the, as orators, [81] ; insurrections of, [82] -[92] ; why they were kept in bondage, [82] ; plot of the, in Virginia, 1800, [83] ; in Charleston, S. C., 1822, [84] ; insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 1831, [87] -[89] ; the "Amistad" captives, [93] -[96] ; Northern sympathy and Southern subterfuges, 1850-1860, [97] -[100] ; schools broken up, pupils maltreated, [97] ; the "Black Laws" of "Border States," 111-[124] ; Ohio laws against free, [111] , [112] ; compelled to show certificate of freedom, [112] ; laws against kidnapping, [113] ; not citizens, [114] , [118] ; denied the right to vote, [119] , [122] ; excluded from the militia service, schools established for free, [119] ; Act for the introduction of, into Indiana, [120] ; excluded from giving testimony, [121] , [123] ; exempted from militia service, [122] ; Act to prevent the immigration of free, into Illinois, [123] ; restrictions and proscriptions in the Northern States, [124] ; the Northern, [125] -[146] ; number of free, in the slave and Northern States, [125] ; petition for relief from taxation of free, in Mass., 1780, [126] ; law preventing, from other States settling in Mass., [127] ; notice to, warning them to leave Mass., [128] ; list of, ordered to leave Mass., [128] , [129] ; rights and privileges restricted, [130] -[132] ; educated by their own race, admitted to the bar, practice of medicine, pulpit, authors, orators, [133] ; prominent, [134] , [135] ; amount paid for their freedom, [134] ; distinguished in the pulpit, [135] ; report on the condition of, in Cincinnati, 1835, [136] -[138] ; militia company of, [145] ; emigrate to Liberia, overcome prejudice against the race, [146] ; school laws, 1619-1860, [147] -[213] ; education of, prohibited, [148] , [149] , [157] , [158] , [160] , [163] , [170] , [178] -[181] ; prejudice against the schools for, in Conn., [149] ; resolutions against the establishing of schools for, in Conn., [150] ; school abolished, [152] , [153] ; school-house mobbed, [156] , [159] ; African School Association established, [157] ; education of, advocated, [158] , [159] ; denied the right of suffrage, [159] ; elective franchise and school privileges in Maine, [160] ; schools established, [161] , [162] , [164] , [168] -[178] , [182] -[213] ; first school established by, [162] ; ordered to leave Missouri, [163] ; plot for burning New York, [164] ; prohibited the use of the streets, kidnapped, [165] ; school trustees, [171] , [172] ; admitted to Oberlin College, [172] ; the employment of, as clerks forbidden, [180] ; stringent laws of Va., [180] , [181] ; attacked by a mob, [188] ; population in United States, [229] ; their services in the War of 1861 declined, not the cause of the War of 1861, [242] ; arrest of free, by the army, [244] ; ordered from the Union army, [250] ; on fatigue duty, [260] -[262] ; employed as teamsters and in the quartermaster's department, [260] ; number at Port Royal, cultivate land, self-supporting, [261] ; order to impress, to build fortifications for Confederate States, [261] , [262] ; fortifications and earthworks built by, industrious and earn promotion, [262] ; emancipation proclamations, [263] -[275] ; President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation imparts new hope to the, [274] ; as soldiers in the War of 1861, [276] -[309] ; in the Confederate service, [277] , [278] ; presented with war flag, [277] ; President Lincoln opposed to the enlistment of, first regiment of loyal, organized, [278] ; official correspondence of the Secretary of War, concerning the enlistment of, [279] , [280] ; their abilities as soldiers, [282] ; President Lincoln authorizes the raising of five regiments of, [285] ; regiments of free, at New Orleans, [287] ; bill in Congress for the employment of, as soldiers, [287] ; action of Congress, on the proposed amendment to the army appropriation bill, to prohibit the enlistment of, [288] ; Mass. furnishes regiment of, [289] ; official order for the enlistment of, [290] ; New York furnishes regiments of, [292] ; Pennsylvania regiments of, [293] ; prejudice against, as soldiers, free military school established, [293] ; number of, in the army, [297] , [299] -[301] ; use of, as soldiers, [301] ; the character of, [303] ; as soldiers, [306] , [310] -[349] ; bravery of, in battle, [308] , [313] , [323] , [329] , [336] , [338] , [342] , [345] -[349] ; legally and constitutionally soldiers, [309] ; persecuted in the army, [311] ; expedition of the First S. C. Volunteers into Ga., and Fla., [314] ; at the battle of Port Hudson, [316] -[323] ; commended for their bravery, [323] , [338] , [346] ; Boker's poem on "The Black Regiment," 324; at the battle of Milliken's Bend, [326] ; draft riot at N. Y., mob destroy orphan asylum, hang several, and destroy property of, [328] ; lead the assault on Fort. Wagner, [329] , [331] -[335] ; number of battles fought by, in the Army of the Potomac, [335] ; defeat Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee at Wilson's Wharf, [335] , [336] ; at the battle of Petersburg, Va., [336] -[342] ; Nashville, Tenn., [342] ; list of the losses, [343] ; at Appomattox, Va., their efficiency as soldiers, [344] ; forts garrisoned by, [345] ; soldierly qualities, [346] , [347] ; history records their deeds of valor, in the preservation of the Union, [349] ; capture and treatment of, [350] -[376] ; Confederate States opposed to the military employment of, by the U. S. Government, [350] , [351] ; captured in arms against the Confederate States to be executed, [352] ; captured, sold into slavery, the government urged to protect enlisted, massacre of prisoners, [353] ; ill-treatment of free, captured on gun-boat, [354] ; Confederate States refuse to exchange captured, as prisoners of war, [355] , [357] ; defend Fort Pillow, and are massacred, [360] , [361] ; testimony in regard to the massacre, [361] -[375] ; the first decade of freedom, [377] -[383] ; condition of, at the close of the war, [378] , [381] , [382] ; bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees established, [379] ; in Congress, members of Legislature in the Southern States, [382] ; the results of emancipation, [384] -[418] ; advance in education, [382] , [387] , [388] , [396] ; number of schools attended, [382] ; amount of money raised by, for the support of schools, [386] , [394] ; population in excess of the whites, in La., S. C., and Miss., [386] ; comparative statistics of education at the South, [388] ; statistics of institutions for the instruction of, [389] -[393] ; Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established, [398] ; military savings-banks, Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company established, [403] , [407] ; failure of the bank, [411] , [412] ; social and financial condition of the, in the South, [413] , [414] ; character of the Southern, [414] ; rarely receive justice in Southern courts, [415] ; their treatment as convicts, [416] ; increase, from 1790-1880, [417] ; susceptible of the highest civilization, [418] ; representative men, [419] -[448] ; ratification of the fifteenth amendment, granting manhood suffrage to American, [420] -[422] ; in the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, in the diplomatic service, [423] ; representative women, [448] -[451] ; African M. E. Church, [452] -[464] ; contributors to the erection of the first M. E. chapel in New York, 1768, [465] ; Baptists of America, [475] -[515] ; the decline of Negro governments, [516] -[528] ; the exodus—cause and effect, [529] ; abridgment of their rights, the plantation credit system, [530] ; political intimidation, murder, and outrage against the, [531] -[533] ; settle in Kansas, [536] ; retrospection and prospection, [544] ; power of endurance, number of tribes of, represented in U. S., achievements as laborers, soldiers, and students, [545] ; first blood shed by, in the Revolution and the War for the Union, [546] . Nelson, Col. John A., commands Negro troops at the battle of Port Hudson, [318] . Nevada, ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . New Bedford, Mass., Negroes excluded from the Lyceum, [430] . Newburyport, Mass., anti-slavery newspaper published, [39] ;ship "Francis Todd" from, engaged in the slave-trade, [40] . New England Anti-slavery Society, appoints Mass. General Colored Association its auxiliary, [79] ;resolution in regard to anti-slavery, [80] . "New Era," gun-boat, at the attack on Fort Pillow, [360] . New Hampshire, slave population, 1800, [2] ;number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . New Haven, Conn., proposed college for young men of color, [63] ;citizens of, oppose the erection of the college, [76] . New Jersey, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] ;resolutions against the extension of slavery, [16] ; anti-slavery society formed, Act for the gradual abolition of slavery, [20] ; slave population, 1820, [22] ; Quakers emancipate their slaves, [38] ; slave population, 1830, 1840, [99] , 1850, [100] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] . New London, Conn., the Spanish slaver "Amistad" captured and taken to, trial of the slaves, [94] . Newman, Rev. W. P., Colored Baptist minister, [476] . New Mexico, resolution in regard to the admission into the Union, [100] , [101] ;number of troops furnished by, [300] . New Orleans, La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, [27] ;slaves from Baltimore to, to be sold, [40] ; Negro troops in the Confederate army at, [277] ; regiments of free Negroes organized, [287] ; forts at, garrisoned by Negro troops, [345] . New York, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] ;Legislature passes resolutions against the extension of slavery, [16] ; slave population, 1820, [22] ; authorizes the enlistment of Negro troops in the War of 1812, [23] ; convention of the Anti-Slavery Women of America, [80] ; slave population, 1840, [99] ; right of suffrage granted to every male inhabitant, [163] , rights of Negroes denied, [164] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . New York African Free School, organized, [165] ;list of the trustees, sketch of, school destroyed by fire, [166] ; Lafayette's address to the scholars, [168] . New York City, prominent Colored men of, [134] ;school for Negro slaves, 1704, [164] , [165] ; Negro plot, [164] ; Negroes prohibited the use of the streets, kidnapped, N. Y. African Free School organized, [165] ; school-house destroyed by fire, [166] ; public schools for Colored children, [168] -[170] ; Union League Club raise Colored troops, [292] ; draft riot, Colored Orphan Asylum burned by mob, [328] ; first Methodist Episcopal chapel erected, [465] . New York Public School Society, assumes control of the Colored schools, [168] . New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, organized, [165] . "New York Times" (The), articles on Negro troops, [284] , [301] , [313] , [314] , [320] . "New York Tribune" (The), articles on Negro troops, [303] -[307] , [353] . Nichols, Manuel, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [361] . Nickens, Rev. David, Colored Baptist minister, [476] . Norfolk, Va., military savings-bank for Negroes established, [403] . North Carolina, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] , 1820, [22] , 1830, [99] , 1840, 1850, [100] ;Colored schools abolished, education of Negroes prohibited, [170] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [300] ; comparative statistics of education, [388] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] , [393] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Northup, Solomon, narrative of, mentioned, [59] . Noxon, Thomas, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165] . [172] .O'Connell, Daniel, extract of speech against slavery, [43] . Ohio, constitution adopted, [3] ;Negroes leave for Canada, [71] ; laws against free Negroes and Mulattoes, in, [112] ; fugitive-slave law recognized, [112] ; law to prevent kidnapping of free Negroes, [113] ; first constitution, [113] , [114] ; free Negroes denied the right to vote, excluded from the militia service, separate schools, [119] ; Colored schools established, [170] -[172] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [300] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] ; Negroes, members of the Legislature, [447] . Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, report on the condition of the people of color, 1835, [136] -[138] . Owen, Richard, first native Methodist preacher in America, [465] . [345] .Park, Benjamin, report in favor of the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, [6] . Parker, Mary S., President of the Anti-Slavery Women of America, [80] . Parker, Theodore, favors the extinction of slavery, [48] . Paul, William, his connection with the Negro plot in Charleston, S. C., 1822, [85] . Payne, Daniel A., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464] . Peck, Maj.-Gen. John J., letter to Gen. Pickett, relative to killing of Negro soldier after surrendering, [356] . Pemberton, John, bequest for the education of Colored people, [175] . Pennsylvania, slave population, 1800, [2] , 1810, [9] ;resolutions against the extension of slavery, [16] ; anti-slavery society, [20] ; slave population, 1820, [22] ; Quakers emancipate their slaves, [38] ; slave population, 1840, [100] ; Colored schools established, [172] -[178] ; number of Negro troops furnished by, [299] ; institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392] ; ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422] . Pennsylvania Abolition Society, establish Colored schools, [175] , [176] . Perry, Capt. Oliver Hazard, letter to Commodore Chauncey, complaining of the Negro sailors sent him, [28] ;commends bravery of the Negro sailors at Lake Erie, [29] . Petersburg, Va., Negro troops engaged in the siege of, [335] -[337] ;lead the charge on the advance works, [338] , [339] . Phelps, Brig.-Gen. J. W., report in favor of enlisting Negroes, [285] ;applies for arms and clothing for Negro regiments, his policy in regard to the employment of Negroes as soldiers, [286] ; resigns from the army, [287] . Philadelphia, Colored citizens of, send memorial to Congress, against the slave-trade, [2] ;anti-slavery newspaper, published, [38] ; national anti-slavery convention, [44] ; conventions of the people of color, [61] , [68] ; prominent Colored men, [134] ; amount paid for their freedom, [134] ; churches, [135] ; first Colored school established, [172] ; Quakers establish school, [174] ; number of public schools, condition and population of the Colored people, [175] ; Negro troops recruited, [293] ; free military school for Negroes established, [295] -[298] ; first American Methodist conference, [465] . "Philanthropist" (The), office destroyed by a mob, [51] . Phœbe vs. Jay, case of, mentioned, [120] . Pickett, Maj.-Gen. J. E., letter to Gen. Peck, relative to killing of Negro soldier after surrender, [357] . Pierce, Rev. Charles, minister of the African M. E. Church, [452] . Pierce, Franklin, nominated for President of the United States, [106] ;elected, in favor of slavery, [107] . Pillsbury, Parker, member of the heterodox anti-slavery party, [48] . Pilmoor, Joseph, member of the first American Methodist conference, [466] . Planciancois, Anselmas, color-sergeant of the First Louisiana Regiment of Colored Troops, his reply on receiving the colors of the regiment, [316] , [319] ;bravery and death, [319] . Poindexter, Rev. James, Colored Baptist minister, [476] , [503] . Port Hudson, La., bravery of the Negro troops at the battle of, [308] , [313] , [317] , [318] , [322] , [345] . Port Royal, S. C., first regiment of loyal Negroes, organized, [278] . Porter, Henry, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton Co., Va., [87] . Potter, Henry, establishes school for Colored children, [183] . Poyas, Peter, his connection with the Negro plot in Charleston, S.C., 1822, [22] . Presbyterian church, the first Colored, Washington, D. C., organized, [189] . Prout, John W., establishes school for Colored children, [185] , [186] ;opposed to the emigration of Negroes to Liberia, [185] . Providence, R. I., Colored school abolished, [178] . [35] , [38] ;establish school for Negroes, [174] ; contribute money for the education of the latter, [198] , [199] . Quincy, Ill., the Free Mission Institute destroyed by a mob, [159] . Quincy, Josiah, signs memorial against the increase of slavery, [16] . Quinn, Rev. William Paul, minister of the African M. E. Church, [452] .