- Randolph, John, report in Congress, against the modification of the ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, [4].
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, speech against slavery in the Legislature of Virginia, [33].
- Rankin, Thomas, president of the first American Methodist conference, [466].
- Rankin vs. Lydia, case of, mentioned, [120].
- Ray, John F., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [373].
- Reconstruction, 1865-1875, [377]-[383].
- Reeder, Gov. Andrew II., threatened by mob, leaves Kansas, [216].
- Rees, Sergt. Henry, fires the mine at the siege of Petersburg, Va., [341].
- Republican party, decline of the, [518];
- Revels, Hiram R., succeeds Jefferson Davis in the U. S. Senate, [423].
- Rhode Island, slave population, 1800, [2], 1810, [9], 1820, [22];
- Richardson, Mrs. Henry, raises money for the purchase of the freedom of Frederick Douglass, [431].
- Richmond, Va., Negro plot, 1800, [83];
- "Richmond Enquirer" (The), mentioned, [89];
- "Richmond Examiner" (The), on the treatment of captured Negro soldiers, [354], [355].
- Roberts, Thomas Wright, bishop of the M. E. Church, [469].
- Rodney, Cæsar, report in favor of the modification of the ordinance of 1787 in Indiana Territory, [4].
- Roman Catholic school for Colored people, [194], [212].
- Ruffner, W. H., superintendent of public instruction, commended, [393];
- his report, [395].
- Ruiz, Jose, passenger on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," [93];
- charged with piracy, [94].
- Russell, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in Mass., 1780, [126].
- Russworm, John B., teacher in the African school, Boston, Governor of Cape Palmas, Liberia, [162].
- St. Frances Academy for Colored girls, founded, [160].
- St. Mary's, Md., slaves imported to, [10].
- Satchell, Rev. Charles, Colored Baptist minister, [476].
- Saunders, George Nicholas, his connection with the proposed steam-ship line to Africa, [53].
- Savannah, Ga., education of Negroes prohibited, [158].
- Saxton, Brig.-Gen. Rufus, authorized to enlist Negroes, [283];
- establishes military savings-bank for Negroes, [403].
- Scott, Dred, Negro slave, [114];
- Scott, Lieut.-Gen. Winfield, Gen. Butler's letter to, declaring slaves contraband of war, [250];
- Seward, William H., in favor of Union of the States, [230];
- Seymour, Horatio, opinion in regard to raising Negro troops, [292];
- addresses the draft rioters at New York, [328].
- Shadford, George, member of the first American Methodist conference, [466].
- Shaler, Capt. Nathaniel, letter commending the bravery of Negro sailors under his command, [30].
- Shaw, Col. Robert Gould, commander of the 54th Mass. Regiment of Colored Troops, leads the assault on Fort Wagner, [329], [333];
- Shelton, Rev. Wallace, Colored Baptist minister, [503].
- Sherman, Brig.-Gen. T. W., proclamation protecting slave property, [246];
- Sherwood, Gen. Isaac R., his account of an attempt to secure a fugitive slave in his charge, [245], [246].
- Shirley, Thomas, donates money for Colored school-house, [174].
- Shorter, Rev. James, establishes Colored school, [213].
- Shorter, James A., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464].
- Shurtleff, Capt. G. W., refuses to arrest fugitive slaves, [245].
- Simpson, Rev. H. L., Colored Baptist minister, [476].
- Slave-trade, on the coast of Guinea, secretly carried on in the United States, [2];
- American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from United States to foreign markets, [3];
- Jefferson recommends the abolishing of the, [8];
- Act of Congress in regard to persons engaged in the, [9];
- memorials against the, [10];
- illegal at St. Mary's, [10];
- vessels engaged in the, to be seized, [13];
- ship "Francis Todd," from Newburyport, Mass, engaged in the, [40];
- bill for the suppression of the, [53];
- Spanish slaver "Amistad," [93];
- number of slaves imported for the, from the year 1500 to 1860, [544].
- Slavery, restriction and extension, 1800-1825, [1]-[22];
- increase of, 1800, [1];
- slave population in United States, 1800, [1], [2];
- the fugitive-slave law of 1793, source of persecution to the free Colored people, [2];
- growth of, in United States, 1810, [9];
- President Monroe's message to Congress on the question of, [12];
- resolutions in favor of restriction of, in the new States, [16];
- anti-slavery societies formed, Act for the gradual abolition of, in New Jersey, [20];
- attitude of the Northern press on the question of, [21];
- anti-slavery sentiments of the North, [22];
- retrospection and reflection, 1825-1850, [31]-[36];
- secured at the South, [31];
- Jefferson predicts the abolition of, [33];
- increase of, [33];
- speeches against, in the Legislature of Virginia, [33]-[35];
- evil effect upon society, [35];
- the South in favor of, [36];
- anti-slavery methods, [37]-[60];
- anti-slavery newspapers established, [38], [39];
- Buchanan's oration against, 1791, [38];
- first anti-slavery society established in United States, [43];
- O'Connell's speech against, [43];
- Sumner's speech, [46];
- the South entertains hope that, will become national, [98];
- increase in the United States, [99], [100];
- Congress has no authority to prohibit, Henry Clay's resolutions in Congress for the adjustment of, does not exist by law in the United States, [101];
- Senator Bell's resolutions, Jefferson Davis's speech in favor of, [102];
- Calhoun's speech, [103]-[105];
- President Pierce in favor of, [107];
- ignorance favorable to, [148];
- John Brown's speech against, [215];
- speeches of William H. Seward against, [230], [231];
- Lincoln's speech against, [230];
- Alexander H. Stephens's speech in favor of, [235];
- the extension of, the issue between the North and South, [236], [240];
- Lincoln's views on, [237]-[239];
- Rev. Justin D. Fulton's views on, [242], [243];
- Gen. McClellan's views on, [249];
- Greeley's letter to Lincoln, [253];
- Lincoln's reply, [254];
- struggle for the supremacy between the Union and, [259];
- Lincoln's views on, [264]-[266];
- resolutions of the Confederate Congress, [350], [351];
- abolished in the U. S., [377];
- the legal destruction of, and a constitutional prohibition, [419].
- Slaves, number of, in the United States, 1800, [1], [2];
- free Colored men sold as, fugitive-slave law of 1793, cause of persecution to the Colored people, [2];
- American ships prohibited from supplying, from United States to foreign markets, [3];
- importation of, prohibited, [8];
- illegally imported to be forfeited, [8];
- number of, in United States, 1810, [9];
- circular-letter of the United States Navy Department in regard to the importation of, premium to informer for imported, seized in United States, [10];
- number of, in United States, 1820, [22];
- the right to hold, questioned, [32];
- increase of, [33];
- Quakers of Maryland and Delaware, emancipate their, [35];
- in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, [38];
- from Baltimore, sent to New Orleans to be sold, [40];
- Washington emancipates, [43];
- insurrections of, [82]-[92];
- why kept in bondage, [82];
- plot of the, in Virginia, 1800, [83];
- insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 1831, [87]-[89];
- the "Amistad" captives, [93]-[96];
- number of, in United States, 1830, 1840, [99];
- Jefferson Davis's speech on the right to hold, [102];
- the "Dred Scott" case, [114]-[119];
- law in regard to executions against the time of service of, [119], [121];
- Act for the introduction of, into Indiana, [120];
- persons emancipating, in Ill. required to give bonds, [122];
- fugitive, seek refuge in Canada, [125];
- rendition of fugitive, by the army, [244];
- failure of attempts to secure fugitive, from the army, [245], [246];
- orders in regard to harboring fugitive, in the army, [248], [249];
- contraband of war, [250];
- Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating, in Missouri, [255];
- disapproved by President Lincoln, [256];
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation, [257];
- rescinded, [258];
- order to impress, to build fortifications for Confederate States, [261];
- emancipation proclamations, [261]-[275];
- Secretary Seward's letter in regard to, [263];
- President Lincoln's proclamation, [267]-[269];
- second proclamation, [272];
- enlist in the service of the Union, [281];
- fugitive, offer their services in the army, [285], [287];
- Judge Advocate Holt's letter on the enlistment of, [307];
- the U. S. Government justified in the employment of, as soldiers, [310];
- at the battle of Port Hudson, [316], Milliken's Bend, [326];
- bravery at battle of Nashville, Tenn., [342];
- resolutions of the Confederate Congress against the military employment of, by the U. S. Government, [350], [351];
- Confederate army refuse to exchange captured, [357], [358];
- results of emancipation, [384]-[418];
- character of the Southern, [414];
- contributors to the erection of the first M. E. chapel in N. Y., [465];
- number of, imported from Africa, from the year 1500 to 1860, [544];
- number of fugitive and manumitted, in United States, 1850, [146];
- education of prohibited, [148], [158], [178]-[181];
- the tax on, in Delaware, added to the school fund for the education of white children only, [157];
- proceeds of the sale of, in Florida, added to the school fund, [158];
- conduct regulated, and preaching of the Gospel by, declared unlawful in Miss., [163];
- school for, at N. Y., 1704, [164];
- Society for Promoting the Manumission of, organized, [165];
- meetings of, forbidden, [180];
- fugitive-slave bill passed, [215];
- aid for the relief of, in Kansas, [216];
- John Brown's plan for freeing, [219];
- increase of, [228];
- number in the United States, 1860, [229];
- value of labor products of, 1850, [229];
- number of owners of, [230];
- Constitution of the Confederate States, [233];
- Lincoln favors the gradual emancipation of, [239].
- Smith, Abiel, founds school-house for Colored children, [162].
- Smith, Elizabeth, establishes school for Colored children, [212].
- Smith, James M., pupil of the N. Y. African free school, his address to Gen. Lafayette, [167].
- Smith, Rev., John C., organizes the First Colored Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. C., [190].
- Smith, Melancthon, mentioned, [166].
- Smith, Maj.-Gen., W. F., marches on Petersburg, [336];
- Smothers, Henry, establishes school for Colored children, [185].
- Snow, Benjamin, cause of the Snow riot at Washington, D. C., leaves for Canada, [188].
- South Carolina, slave population, 1800, [2], 1810, [9], 1820, [22];
- Negro plot, 1822, [83];
- slave population, 1830, [99], 1840, 1850, [100];
- education of Negroes prohibited, [178]-[180];
- secedes from the Union, [232];
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, [257],
- rescinded, [258];
- regiment of loyal Negroes organized, [278];
- number of Negro troops furnished by, [300];
- exploits of the first volunteers, Negro regiment, [314];
- represented in Congress by Negroes, [382];
- Negro population in excess of the white, [386];
- school population, [387];
- comparative statistics of education, [388];
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392];
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422].
- South Carolina Volunteers, First Regiment of Colored Troops, [304], [306].
- Southampton County, Va., Negro insurrection, 1831, [87]-[89];
- Southern States, churches, libraries, and newspapers in the, [230];
- number of troops furnished by, [300].
- Spencer, Peter, representative of Wilmington, in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452].
- Stafford, Col., Spencer H., speech to the 1st La. Regiment of Colored Troops before the battle of Port Hudson, [316].
- Stanton, Edwin M., Secretary of War, revokes order for the return of fugitive slaves, [246];
- Stearns, Maj. George L., secures aid for the relief of Kansas, [216];
- Stearns, Mrs. George L., personal recollections of John Brown, [215]-[221].
- Steedman, Col. James B., refuses to have his camp searched for fugitive slaves, [246];
- Stephens, Alexander H., delegate from Georgia, to the convention of the Confederate States, [232];
- Stewart, Rev. Austin, his book "Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman," mentioned, [59].
- Still, William, founder of the underground railroad organization, [58].
- Stokes, Richard, establishes school for Colored children, [209].
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in different languages, [60];
- Strawbridge, Robert, founder of Methodism in Baltimore, [465].
- Strong, Brig.-Gen. George C., commands brigade at the assault on Fort Wagner, [329], [330];
- character of, [334].
- Strong, Henry, counsel for Prudence Crandall, [156].
- Summer, Charles, speech on "The Anti-Slavery Duties of the Whig Party," [44];
- Sylvester, Elisha, teacher of the first school for Colored children, [162].
- Syphax, William, establishes school for Colored children, [206].
- Tabbs, Michael, establishes school for Colored children, [210].
- Tallmadge, James, Jr., introduces bill in Congress against the introduction of slavery in Missouri, [14].
- Talmadge, Capt. Grier, first to decide slaves contraband of war, [252].
- Taney, Roger B., decides that the Negro is not a citizen, [114];
- opinion in the Dred Scott case, [116].
- Tanner, Alethia, purchases freedom of John F. Cook, [187].
- Tapsico, Jacob, representative of Phila., in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452].
- Tappan, Arthur, secures the release of William Lloyd Garrison, [41];
- Tappan, Lewis, takes charge of the "Amistad" captives, [94].
- Taylor, John W., introduces bill in Congress prohibiting slavery in Arkansas, [18];
- in favor of the admission of Missouri, [20].
- Taylor, Rev. Marshall W., his ancestors, early life and struggles for an education, [469]-[471];
- Tennessee, slave population, 1800, [2], 1810, [9], 1820, [22], 1830, [99], 1840, 1850, [100];
- Texas, slave population, 1850, [100];
- exiles free Negroes, treatment of slaves, no legislation in regard to educating the Negro, [180];
- number of Negro troops furnished by, [300];
- comparative statistics of education, [388];
- institutions for the instruction of Negroes, [392];
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422].
- Thomas, Alexander S., sketch of, [141]-[143].
- Thomas, Maj.-Gen. George H., approves the employment of Negroes as teamsters in the army, [260].
- Thomas, Jesse B., in favor of excluding slavery north and west of Missouri, [17].
- Thomas, Lorenzo, Adjt.-Gen., U. S. Army, speech in favor of enlisting Negroes, [289];
- Thomas, Brig.-Gen. Samuel, report on the freedmen, [400], [401].
- Thompson, Jacob, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [364].
- Thompson, Margaret, establishes school for Colored children, [206], [207].
- Townsend, E. D., Assistant Adj.-Gen., U. S. Army, order for the enlistment of Negro troops, [291];
- in reference to applicants for admission to the free military school, [296].
- Travis, Hark, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton County, Va., [87], [88].
- Trenton, N. J., opposed to the increase of slavery, [16]; anti-slavery society formed, [20].
- Trinity Church, New York City, Negro slaves, communicants of, [164].
- Turner, Benjamin, mentioned, [85];
- Turner, H. M., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464].
- Turner, Nathaniel, Negro prophet, his birth and parentage, becomes preacher, description of his person, [85];
- mode of life, believes he is a prophet, his superstition, denounces conjuring and fortune-telling, regarded with reverence by the Negroes, acknowledged leader among the slaves, hired out as a slave, [86];
- claims to have seen visions, organizes plot for the uprising of the slaves, address to his fellow-conspirators, [87];
- leads the attack in Southampton County, Va., his confession of the plot, [88];
- trial and execution, remarkable prophecy of, [90];
- his character, [91].
- Tyler, Col. Erastus B., address to the people of Virginia, promising the return of fugitive slaves, [244].
- Underground Railroad Organization, the, [58];
- Underwood, J. R., Gen. Buell's letter to, on the return of fugitive slaves to their masters, [248].
- Union League Club, N. Y. City, raise Negro regiments, [292].
- Union Seminary, Washington, D. C., [189].
- United States, slave population, 1800, [1], [2];
- increase of slavery, [1];
- slave-trade secretly carried on, [2];
- American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from, to foreign markets, [3];
- importation of slaves prohibited, [8];
- slaves illegally imported to be forfeited, [8];
- slave population, 1810, [9];
- premium offered to informers of illegally imported Africans seized within the, circular-letter of the Navy Department to naval officers in regard to the importation of slaves, [10];
- President Monroe's message to Congress on the question of slavery, [12];
- appoint agents to direct the return of slaves to Africa, [13];
- resolutions in favor of restriction of slavery in the new States, [16];
- slave population, 1820, [22];
- Negroes serve in the War of 1812, [23]-[27];
- Gen. Jackson's proclamation calling for Negro troops, [25];
- terms of peace by the Commissioners of Ghent, [27];
- increase of the slave population, [33];
- first anti-slavery society established, [43];
- number of anti-slavery societies in, 1836, [44];
- Free Soil party organized, [46];
- comments of the press on the proposed steam-ship line between Africa and, [55]-[58];
- condition of the free Negroes in, [62], [67];
- slave population, 1830, 1840, [99], 1850, [100];
- Franklin Pierce elected President, [107];
- number of fugitive and manumitted slaves, 1850, [146];
- increase of slaves, [228];
- slave population, 1860, value of slave labor products, [229];
- six States secede from, [232];
- Abraham Lincoln elected President, [239];
- slavery abolished, [377];
- Negro population, 1790-1880, [417];
- the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, [419];
- ratification of the fifteenth amendment, [420]-[422];
- Southern election methods and Northern sympathy, [517];
- decline of the Republican party, [518];
- Southern war claims, [519];
- the presidential campaign of 1876, [519], [520];
- the electoral count in Congress, [521];
- President Hayes's Southern policy, a failure, [522]-[524].
- United States Army, Negro troops serve in the War of 1812, [23]-[27];
- Negroes arrested, [244];
- orders in regard to fugitive slaves in, [245], [248], [249];
- Negroes ordered from, [250];
- Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating slaves, [255];
- Gen. Hunter's proclamation, [257];
- fortifications and earthworks built by Negroes, [262];
- condition of, 1862, [264];
- opposed to President Lincoln's proclamation, [269];
- Negroes as soldiers, [276]-[309];
- first regiment of Negroes organized, [278];
- Negro troops organized, fugitive slaves offer their services, [285], [287];
- order for the enlistment of Negro troops, [290];
- number of Negroes in, [297], [299]-[301];
- services of Negroes in the Army of the Potomac, [335].
- United States Congress, proceedings on the memorial of Colored citizens of Philadelphia, against the slave-trade on the coast of Guinea, [2];
- American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from the United States to foreign markets, [3];
- action on the memorial of Indiana Territory for a modification of the ordinance of 1787, [4]-[8];
- importation of slaves prohibited, [8];
- slaves illegally imported, to be forfeited, [8];
- Act in regard to persons engaged in the slave-trade, [9];
- memorials against the slave-trade, fugitive-slave act amended, premium to informer for imported slaves seized within the United States, [10];
- President Monroe's message to, on the question of slavery, [12];
- debate on the bill to admit Missouri, [14];
- the Missouri controversy, [16]-[20];
- Garrison petitions, for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, [39];
- Sumner's speech on slavery, [46];
- bill establishing a line of war-steamers to the coast of Africa, suppression of the slave-trade, promotion of commerce, and the colonization of free Negroes, [53]-[55];
- organization of the 31st, [100];
- motion for the admission of California and New Mexico, [100], [101];
- has no authority to prohibit slavery, resolutions of Henry Clay for the adjustment of slavery, [101], of Senator Bell, [102];
- speech of Jefferson Davis in favor of slavery, [102];
- John C. Calhoun's speech, [103]-[105];
- fugitive-slave law, 1850, [106];
- bill to organize Nebraska Territory, [107];
- to repeal the Missouri compromise, speech of Stephen A. Douglass, [108];
- reply of Salmon P. Chase, [109];
- Act to organize the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, [110];
- opposed to civil and military interference with slaves, [244];
- conservative policy of, [252];
- passes Act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes, [263];
- Act to make an additional Article of War, [267];
- of 1860, 1862, [269];
- resolution in regard to the enlistment of Negroes, [279];
- action on the proposed amendment of the army appropriation bill to prohibit the enlistment of Negroes, [288];
- investigates the Fort Pillow massacre, [361]-[375];
- Act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, [379];
- methods of, for reconstructing the South, [381];
- Negroes in, [382];
- Act to incorporate the Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company, [403], amended, [407];
- appoint commissioners to close up the affairs of the bank, [411];
- authorized to enforce the thirteenth amendment, [419];
- recommends the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, [420];
- action on the electoral count of 1876, [521].
- United States Navy, Negroes serve in the, [28]-[30]; captures the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 64.
- Utah, slave population in the territory of, [100].
- Vallandingham, C. C., speech on the character of John Brown, [225].
- Vanlomen, Rev. Father, preceptor of Catholic seminary for Colored girls, [194].
- Vermont, number of Negro troops furnished by, [299];
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, [422].
- Vesey, Denmark, leader of the Negro plot in Charleston, S. C., 1822, [84].
- Vesey, Rev. William, rector of Trinity Church, New York, [164];
- his death, [165].
- Vicksburg, Miss., fortifications built by Negroes, [262];
- fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, [345].
- Virginia, slave population, 1800, [2], 1810, [9], 1820, [22];
- increased, anti-slavery speeches in the Legislature, [33]-[35];
- Negro plot, 1800, [83];
- insurrection, 1831, [87]-[89];
- slave population, 1830, [99], 1840, 1850, [100];
- education of Negroes prohibited, [180], [181];
- Negro school population, [387];
- comparative statistics of education, [388];
- institutions for instruction of Negroes, [392], [394], [395];
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422].
- Wade, Benjamin F., one of the committee of investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre, [361].
- Walls, James, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [366].
- War of 1812, Negro troops serve in the, [23]-[27].
- War of 1861, definition of the war issue, [228];
- States secede from the Union, [232];
- organization and Constitution of the Confederate States, [232], [233];
- extension of slavery the issue, [240];
- a white man's war, first call for troops, [241];
- rendition of fugitive slaves by the army, [244];
- order for the return of fugitive slaves revoked, proclamations protecting slave property, [246]-[248];
- orders in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, [248], [249];
- slaves contraband of war, [250];
- Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating slaves in Missouri, [255];
- President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, [267]-[269];
- called the war for the Negro, [269];
- President Lincoln's second emancipation proclamation, [272];
- employment of Negroes as soldiers, [276]-[309];
- President Lincoln's call for more troops, [287];
- order for the enlistment of Negro troops, [290];
- number of Negroes in the army, [297], [299]-[301];
- expedition of the First S. C. Volunteers, Negro Regiment, into Ga. and Fla., [314];
- battle of Port Hudson, [320]-[323],
- memorable events of July, 1863, [328];
- attack on Fort Wagner, [329];
- battles fought by Negroes, in the Army of the Potomac, [335];
- their services at the siege of Petersburg, Va., [336]-[342];
- number of, engaged in the battles around Nashville, Tenn., [342];
- capture and treatment of Negro soldiers, [350]-[376];
- the Fort Pillow massacre, [360]-[376];
- reconstruction of the Confederate States, [377]-[383];
- end of the war, [377];
- provisional military government established, bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, [379].
- Ward, Rev. Samuel Ringgold, his book, "Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro," [59];
- Ward, T. M. D., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464].
- Washington, D. C., first Colored school established, 1807;
- Washington, Annie E., school for the education of Colored people, [209].
- Washington, George, emancipates his slaves, [43]; called the illustrious Southerner, [105].
- Waugh, Nannie, establishes school for Colored children, destroyed by mob, [192].
- Wayman, A. W., bishop of the African M. E. Church, [464].
- Wears, I. C., delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, [422].
- Webb, Capt., Thomas, one of the founders of the M. E. Church in New York, [465], [466].
- Webster, Daniel, author of memorial against the increase of slavery, [16].
- Webster, Thomas, representative of Phila. in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452].
- Welch, Jonathan A., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of Prudence Crandall, [156].
- Wells, Nelson, establishes school for free children of color, [161].
- Wesley, John, founder of Methodism, [465], [466];
- opposed to slavery, [467].
- Wesleyan Seminary, Washington, D. C., [194].
- West Virginia, number of Negro troops furnished by, [300];
- Wetmore, Rev. James, teaches Negro slaves in New York, [165].
- Whig party, opposed to slavery, [44];
- White, Rev. Sampson, Colored Baptist minister, [476].
- Whiteworth, Abraham, member of the first American Methodist conference, [466].
- Whitfield, Rev. James, favors the education of Negroes, [160].
- Wilberforce University, report for 1876, [455], [456];
- Wilcox, Samuel T., sketch of, [140].
- Williams, Major, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow massacre, [362].
- Williams, Nelson, his connection with the Negro insurrection in Southampton County, Va., [87].
- Williams, Richard, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452].
- Williams, Brig.-Gen. Thomas, order in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, [249].
- Wilmington, Del., African School Association established, [157].
- Wilson, Henry, introduces bill in Congress for the employment of Negroes as soldiers, [287];
- Gen. Thomas's letter to, on the efficiency of Negro soldiers, [344].
- Wilson's Wharf, Negro troops defeat Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee at the battle of, [335].
- Williamson, Edward, representative of Baltimore in the first conference of the African M. E. Church, [452].
- Wisconsin, number of Negro troops furnished by, [300];
- ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., [422].
- Wool, Maj.-Gen. John E., orders the employment of Negroes in the army, [260];
- in command of troops during the draft riot at N. Y., [328].
- Wormley, Mary, establishes school for Colored children, [205].
- Wormley, William, erects school-house for Colored children, [205];
- threatened by mob, his death, [206].
- Wright, Richard, member of the first American Methodist conference, [466].
- Yearbry, Joseph, member of the first American Methodist conference, [466].
- Zane, Jonathan, bequest for the education of Colored people, [177].
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