ABYSSINIAN Baptist Church, 61
Africa, 77, 86, 98, 132, 235, 237,
Adams, John Quincy, 21
African Baptist Church, Williams-
burg, Va., 17
Society, Free, 17
Methodist Episcopal Church, 20
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,
20
Masonic Lodge, 17
Missionary Convention, 70
Emigration, 44
Afro-American Council, 40
Alabama, Third Regiment, 58
Albany Law School, 156
Alexander High School, 235
Alexander, Dr., 68
Allen, Richard, 17, 28, 29, 30, 64,
68, 69
America, South, 2
National Baptist Convention, 70
American Colonization Society, 19,
30, 237
Anti-Slavery Society, 21, 76, 117
Negro Academy, 13, 133, 227, 238
Philological Society, 238
Amendments to Constitution, 13th,
24; 14th, 24, 71; 15th, 24, 71
Ames, Gen. Adelbert, 165
Amistad Captives, 21, Appx.
Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Appx.
Armistead, Rev. Thomas, 64
Armstrong, Gen. S. C., 200, 202,
Atlanta, Ga., 208, 209
Atlanta University, 25
Appropriation, Congressional, 208
Arnold, the historian, 51
Asbury, Rev. Francis, 64
Attakapas, 53
Attempts to have United States Su-
preme Court rule on revised
constitutions, 49
Augusta, Ga., 63
Avery College, 128
BANNEKER, Benjamin, birth and
ancestry, 86; early education,
87; constructs clock, 88; self-
instructor, 89; plans almanac,
89; as social being, 94; sur-
veyor, 90; observes flour mills,
88; George Ellicott, 89; An-
drew Ellicott, 90; mathematical
genius, 89; resemblance to
Franklin, 96; musician, 95; let-
ter to Thomas Jefferson, 92;
Latrobe's memoir, 91; last
days, 96
Banks, Charles, 74
Baptist Educational Convention, 70
Barbadoes, James G., 44
Bearcroft, Dr., 7
Beatty, Powhattan, 56
Battleship, Maine, 57
Bethel (A. M. E.) Church, 62, 64
Bias, Dr. J. J. Gould, 40
Bibb, Henry, 43
Bishop, Hosea (Josiah), 64
Black Regiment, The, 55
"Black Women of the South," 133
Black Laws of Ohio, 37
Blackburn, Rev. Gideon, 65
Blair, Lewis H., 75
Blyden, Edward Wilmot, birth,
235; educational ambitions,
235; visits United States, 235;
disappointed, goes to Liberia,
235; Alexander High School,
235; revisits United States-
"Liberia's Offering," 235; would
burn Astor House down, 236;
admired by Rt. Rev. Alonzo
Potter-Sir H. H. Johnston's
estimate visits Egypt, Syria
and Palestine-returns to
Sierra Leone, 236; looker-on at
Republican National Conven-
tion of 1880 "Christianity,
Islam and the Negro Race”—
Hugh M. Browne and J. Mc-
Cants Stewart, 237; educational
work among Mohammedans-
Liberian representative
Court of St. James, 237; lin-
guistic accomplishments-ac-
corded literary honors-distin-
guished correspondents-James
Carmichael Smith's tribute may
be verdict of posterity, 238; ad-
mitted to pension roll because
of distinguished service, 238
Boker, George H., 55
Bonsal, Stephen, 59
Boston Blues, 60
Massacre, 50
Bowdoin College, 27
Bowen, Dr. J. W. E., 169
Boyd, R. H., 73
Brougham, Henry Lord, 238
Brown, John, 22
Brooks, Rev. Walter H., 63
Bryant, Ira I., 73
Browne, Hugh M., 237
Brown, W. G., 26
Brathwaite, S. G., 74
Bronson, James H., 56
Butler, Gen. Benjamin F., 56
Bucks of America, 60
Bull Run, battle of, 54
Bruce, Blanche K., changes name—
printer's devil-ex-Congress-
man's surprise, 164; delegate to
Republican National Conven-
tion of 1872-Hill's prophecy—
unique campaign, 166; election
and qualification as United
States Senator-Roscoe Conk-
ling's courtesy-how remem-
bered-Senatorial service, 168;
pioneer teacher in Kansas-at-
tends Oberlin-steamboat hand
-drifts to Mississippi, enters
politics, 165; career since
1881-Register of Treasury,
168; Recorder of Deeds, 169;
lyceum lecturer, 169; trustee
Howard University, 170; trus-
tee of public schools, Washing-
ton, D. C., 169; commissioner
World's Cotton Exposition—
once more Register of Treas-
ury-personality, 170
Bruce, John E., 74
Burroughs, Nannie H., 73
Business League, 72, 211
Bryan, Andrew, 63, 66
Cailloux, Captain, 55
California, 21
Cardozo, Thomas W., 26
Francis L., 180
Carey, Lott, 67
Carney, Sergeant William H., 55,
Chase, Salmon P., 37
Chavis, John, 68
Chatham, Canada, West, 44
Clark, Howell's Prophecy, 209
Clark, Peter H., 36
Clarkson, Thomas, 100
Chesnutt, Charles W., 74
Charleston Leader, 179
Cibola, Seven Cities of, 1
"Cleopatra," 11
Clay, Henry, 19
Clinton, Bishop George W., 73
Colored Ministers' Union, 118
Civil rights Law enacted, 23
Rights Congress, 23
Cleveland, President, 158
Collins, Henry M., 43
Colored men in Congress-
Blanche, K. Bruce, 47, 164, etc
Cain, Richard H., 48, 179
Cheatham, Henry P., 47
DeLarge, Robert C., 48
Elliott, Robert B., 47, 179, etc
Haralson, Jeremiah, 48
Hyman, John A., 47
Langston, John M., 47, 155, etc.
Long, Jefferson, 48
Lynch, John R., 48
Miller, Thomas E., 48
Murray, George W., 48
Nash, Charles E., 48
O'Hara, James E., 47
Ransier, Alonzo J, 48
Revels, Hiram R., 47
Rainey, Joseph H., 48
Rapier, J. T., 48
Smalls, Robert, 48, appx.
Turner, Benjamin S., 48
Walls, Josiah T., 48
White, George N., 47
Colburn, D. P., 214
Secretary French Academy, 94
Congressional appropriation, 208
fight against Andrew Johnson, 23
emancipation constitutional enact-
ments, 23
Conkling, Roscoe, courtesy W. B. K.
Bruce, 168
Constitutional compromises, 18
League, 75
Connecticut, slavery in, 4
deputy governors, 50
Cooper, Mrs. Anna J., 169
Cosgrove, Representative, 164-5
Coker, Rev. Daniel, 66
Colver Institute, 25
Corbin, Henry S., 58
Carney, William H., 55, appx.
Crandall, Prudence, 31, appx.
Coppin, Fanny M. J., freedom pur-
chased-enters D. A. Payne's
domestic service, 213; Colbun
instructor, 214; Oberlin College,
at, gives scholarship, 215; Pres-
ident Finney gives special op-
portunity, 215; instructor at
Institute for Colored Youth,
215; principal; Colored Wom-
en's Exchange, 216; Home for
Girls and Young Women; po-
litical factor; orator; services
recognized, 217; Old Folks'
Home, 218; visits England;
marriage, 217; goes to South
Africa, 218; work in America
greets her there; "Reminis-
cences," 218
Cook, John F. (first), conspicuous
figure in education of colored
Washington, 229; Andrew Elli-
cott, Pierre L'Enfant, 228;
George Bell, Nicholas Franklin
and Moses Liverpool, pioneer
philanthropists, 228; Provi-
dence Hospital, 228; Columbia
Institute, 229; Resolute Bene-
ficial Society, 229; Henry
Smothers, John W. Prout, 229;
Missouri Compromise, 229;
Harmony Cemetery, 230; Union
Bethel and Fifteenth Street
Presbyterian Church, 230;
Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows, Ministers' Council, 230
John F. (second), early teacher,
New Orleans, political activ-
ity, collector of taxes, city reg-
ister, 230; Republican National
Convention, 231; relief of des-
titute colored women and chil-
dren, 230; Grand Master of
Masons, 231; Grant, Hayes,
Garfield and Arthur recognize
his ability, 230; trustee Howard
University, 231; Coleridge-Tay-
lor Choral Society, 231; mem-
ber Board of Education
George F. T., distinctive educa-
tional career, Oberlin College,
first legislation, law amended,
people defeat hostile amend-
ment, Rev. J. Sella Martin,
233; Emma V. Brown, 231; J.
Ormond Wilson and W. B.
Powell, 234; J. W. F. Smith,
233
Cuffé, Paul, ancestry, protests tax
payment, 98; studies naviga-
tion, early experiments, re-
sourcefulness, 99; sails for
Africa, 100; visits England,
sees Liverpool, Granville
Sharpe, Thomas Clarkson and
Wilberforce, 100; organizer re-
lief societies, pioneer American
colonists, his contribution,
visits President Madison, takes
cargo for Sierra Leone, 101;
personal appearance, 102; over-
comes many racial prejudices,
102; religious character, per-
sonal example
Cornish, Rev. Samuel E., 27
Council of war, 50
Crummell, Alexander, birth and an-
cestry, 130; in convention
movement, 34, 39; early edu-
cation, Canaan, New Hamp-
shire, 130; Beriah Green,
Oneida Institute, 130; General
Theological Seminary, 131;
Bishops Griswold and Lee, 131;
goes abroad, 131; visits and
matriculates at Queen's College,
Cambridge, England, 132; Afri-
can missionary, 132; returns to
United States, 132; Bishop
Whittingham, 137; St. Mary's,
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