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INDEX

U.S. Sanitary Commission, 67—68, 68n, 395n,
447n, 553n

U.S. Santo Domingo Commission: Charles Doug-
lass and, 279n; Douglass as assistant secretary
of, 328, 328n, 354, 580m, 601; Benjamin
Franklin Wade and, 580n; report of (1871),
354n; return of, to US, 285, 323, 601

US. Signal Service, 381n

U.S. slave trade: in Baltimore, Md. , 544, 600; in
New Orleans, La., 600

US. State Department, 473; blacks in, 203—04;
secretaries of, 472n, 534n, 538n, 569n

US. Supreme Court, 93n, 430, 555n; associate
justices of, 427, 488n, 535n; Civil Rights Act
(1866) and, 340n, 405n; powers of, 593

US. Treasury Department, 55%; Charles Doug-
lass and, 279n, 599; officials of, 301n, 409n,
559, 567n; secretaries of, 332n, 442n, 517n,
534nn, 549, 549n, 582n, 583; Specie Resump-
tion Act and, 534m

US. War Department: freedmen's aid societies
and, 68m secretaries of, 578

US. Weather Bureau, 381n

Utica, N.Y., 47In; Douglass speaks in, 533—42,
610; mobs in, 53n

Utica Academy, N.Y., 7n

Utica (N.Y.) Morning Herald, 533

Vache Island, Haiti, 57n, 501n

Vallandigham, Clement L., 8, 336n, 598

Van Buren, Martin, 162n

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 539n

Van Horn, Rev., 323

Van Wagener, Isabella: See Truth, Sojourner

Vashon, George B., 92n

Vashon, John B., 92, 92n

Vatican, The: Confederate diplomats in, 117n;
Italian unification and, 64, 64n

Vaux, Charles, 447n

Venetia-Lombardy, Italy, 64n, l65n

Vermont: Douglass speaks in, 86, 240; Green
Mountains in, 484, 484n; Union Army units
from, 484

Vesey, Denmark, 531—32, 532n

Vesey, Joseph, 532n

Vicksburg, Miss.: battle of, 56, 56—57n, 74n,
II7n, 236, 539n

Victor Emmanuel 11 (king of Italy), 64n

Victoria (queen of England), 166, l66n

Virginia, 6n, 26n, 79n, 97, 146n, 236, 236n,
303, 304, 309, 454-55n, 457n; in American

661

Revolution, 237, 307; Anglican missionaries
in, 411; black suffrage in, 122, 122n, 237; in
Civil War, 237; Civil War in, 212n, 450n;
Democratic Party in, 548n; Douglass in, 52n;
first families of, 15, 458; motto of, 115, II5n;
nicknames for, 237, 237n; politicians of, 307,
548n; Reconstruction in, 237, 548n; secession
of, 76n; slave revolts in, 224, 317, 366; slavery
in, II4n, 307—08, 395

Virginia Industrial Mercantile Building and Loan
Association, Richmond, Va., 610

Virginia Star, 496

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, 142, I42n

Wade, Benjamin Franklin, 5801:; as candidate for
vice-presidential nomination, 580n; Civil
Rights Act (1875) and, 417n; Joshua R. Gid-
dings and, 580m; as president pro tempore
of Senate, 580n; Republican Party and, 580;
Santo Domingo and, 282n, 604

Wade-Davis Bill (1864), 37n, 142n

Waite, Morrison R., 430

Walbridge, Hiram, I24, 124n, I34

Wales, 254

Walker, Gilbert C., 236, 2361:

Walker, Jonathan, 609

Walker, William J., 300

War Democrats, 33n, 124n; as Republican Party
allies, I45n. See also Democratic Party

Warmoth, Henry Clay, 423n

War of 1812: blacks in, 67, 72, 415; in Maryland,
455n

Warren, Richard, 3

Warren, William, 435n

Washbume, Elihu B., 53812, 538

Washington, DC, 6, 20, 22n—23n, 24, 25n, 27,
28n, 79n, 92n, 232, 234, 282n, 286n, 312,
313, 328n, 409a, 443, 455n, 479n, 489n,
542n, 549nn, 550n, 555n, 576n, 592, 611;
black schools in, 300—02, 619; blacks in, 98,
231 , 23In, 293—94, 336—37n, 418, 446, 466—
69, 562n, 619—20; black suffrage in, 102, 118,
164n, 457n, 457—58; Capitol Hill neighbor-
hood of, 422; character of citizens of, 448—49,
450—51, 455, 458—69, 473—74; compared to
Boston, Mass, 469; criticized by Douglass,
444—74, 476—77, 618—20; Douglass in, xv—
xvi, I9n, 52h, 96—106, 373n, 444, 465—67,
475; Douglass interviewed in, 475—77, 493—
96; Douglass speaks in, 106—18, 118—23,
272—78, 281—85, 286—89, 292—93, 300—02,