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Black suffrage: abolitionism and, 84; American Anti-Slavery Society and, 80; American principles and, 59, 66—67, 324; Civil War and, 62, 66—67; in Connecticut, 179, 179n; Democratic Party and, 178—79, 179n, 261, 340—41, 540n, 579; education and, 62—63, 607—09; fifteenth amendment and, 324n, 334n; fourteenth amendment and, 268—69, 523, 523n; Garrison opposes, 267; impact on the South, 28, 63—64, 66—67, 78—79; Andrew Johnson opposes, 612; in Kansas, 179; in Louisiana, 25, 25n, 27—28, l43n, 565; in Maryland, 49, 49n, 122; in Massachusetts, 324; in Minnesota, 179, 179n; in Mississippi, 565; as necessary for freedom and, 83, 120—21; in New York State, 175n, 183, 594; in North Carolina, 122; in Ohio, 179, 179n, 594; opposition to, 49n, 120—21, 139, 242; in original states, 67; in Pennsylvania, 122; poll tax and, 603; Reconstruction and, 29, 30, 179a; Republican Party and, 178— 79; in South, 29, 30, 179n; in South Carolina, 565; supporters of, 60—61, 118, 119—21, 126n, 131n, 139, 145n, 146n, 184, 309—10n; U.S. Congress and, 25n, 119—20; U.S. Constitution and, 98; in Virginia, 122; in Washington, D.C., 118, 457n, 457—58; woman suffrage and, 62—63, 146—48, 180, 213—14, 215nn, 216—19. See also U.S. Constitution, thirteenth amendment to

Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 205n, 205—06, 206n

Blackwell, Henry B., 173, 219

Blackwell, Samuel, 205n

Blackwood’s Magazine, 601 , 606—07

Bladensburg, Md., 455; battle of, 455n

Blaine, James G., 538n; as candidate for presidential nomination (1876), 442, 442n, 537n, 538, 538n, 566n; as speaker of House of Representatives, 573, 573n

Blair, Austin, 53n

Blair, Francis Preston, Jr., 309n

Blair, Montgomery, 125n

Blanchard, Henry, 176

Bland-Allison Act (1878), 534n

Bloody Shirt (campaign tactic), 581

Bluebeard, 208, 208n

Board of Trustees for Colored Schools, Washington, D.C., 355, 359; portrait of Charles Sumner and, 356m, 356-60

Bohemia, 196n

Bolivar County, Miss., 425n

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Bond, Hugh Lenox, 142, 142n

Booth, Edwin, 78n

Booth, John Wilkes, 78—79n; assassination of Lincoln by, 74, 75n, 79n, 198, 584, 615; Confederate officials and, 115, 115n; death of, 79n, 592; Andrew Johnson and, 594; plan to kidnap Lincoln by, 79n; Southern sympathies of, 79n

Border States: black suffrage in, 122, 122n; Civil Rights Act (1875) and, 417n; gradual emancipation in, 23, 23n, 31-32, 32n, 42—50, 52, 53, 53n, 87, 90; slavery in, 9, 23, 23n, 44, 52— 53,431n

Borie, Adolph E., 332n

“Boston” (Emerson), 394n, 501n, 527n

Boston, Mass., 28, 30n, 83n, 93n, 149, 180n, 182—83n, 216, 262n, 282n, 352, 396n, 419, 469, 522, 561n; in American Revolution, 417; banks in, 582n; compared to Philadelphia, Pa., 450; compared to Washington, D.C., 450; compared to west, 60-61; Crispus Attucks Day in, 416n; discrimination in, 522; Douglass in, 69, 342; Douglass speaks in, 3, 24, 59—69. 180—84, 209n, 240—59, 322—33, 361, 39596, 592—93, 598—99, 601; Election-Day plot (1864) and, 34—35n; Emancipation Proclamation celebrations in, 435n; fire in, 349, 349n; Fugitive Slave Law ( 1850) and, 404; Garrison in, 506; mobs in, 53, 53n, 229, 369, 522n, 523; newspapers of, 444n, 445, 507n; Frederick Law Olmsted and, 447n

Boston Common, 416n

Boston Commonwealth, 86

Boston Daily Advertiser, 24

Boston Daily Globe, 323

Boston Massacre, 415—16

Boston Music Hall, Boston, Mass.: Douglass at, 444n

Boston Tea Party, 395

Boston Transcript, 24, 69

Boston Traveller, 139

Boswell, James, 335n, 561, 561n

Botts, John Minor, 145—46n; release of Jefferson Davis and, 539n; Southern Loyalists' Convention and, 145, 268

Bourbons, 196n, 223, 224n; restoration of, in France, 223n

Boutwell, George S., 270, 270n, 428

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 30n, 550n

Bower, S. (priest), 614—16

Boyer, Jean Pierre, 501n

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Bradford, N.H., 402

Bradley, Joseph H., Jr., 286—87n

Bradley, Joseph H., Sr., 286—87n

Bragg, Braxton, 109n

Brandy Station, Va.: battle of, 489n

Brattle Street Unitarian Church, Boston, Mass., 26n

Brazil: race relations in, 59, 599

Breckinridge, John Cabell: in Baltimore, Md., 499; Civil War and, 8; as presidential candidate, 492; as U.S. senator, 456; vice-presidency of, 114—15, 115n, 170

Brethren of Common Life, 190n

Bridgeport, Conn., 176n, 578n

Bright, John, 18, 166, 332, 332n

Bristow, Benjamin, 442n

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 228n

British Museum, 546, 546n

British West Indies, 224, 262; celebrations of emancipation in, 220—21 , 562—63; emancipation in, 61n, 220, 221—22, 224, 228, 267, 564; James A. Froude and, 364n; Great Britain and, 228; missionaries in, 411

Broadhead letter, 602

Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, 310, 310n

Brook Farm, 537n

Brooklyn, N.Y., 280n, 577n; Douglass speaks in, 149; Frederick Law Olmsted and, 447n

Brooks, Noah, 198n

Brooks, Preston: attacks Charles Sumner, 115, 359n, 399—400, 399—400n, 424, 457; Democratic Party and, 424; Lawrence Keitt and, 399—400n

“Brotherhood of Man, The" (Douglass), 93n

Brougham, Lord Henry Peter: Douglass praises, 166, 607; quoted, 45—46, 46n

Brown, B. Gratz, 309—10n; cartoons of, 358n; as vice-presidential candidate, 309—10, 310n

Brown, John: on black character, 87; commemorations of, 53n, 229, 522n; courage of, 596; Douglass and, 87n; Douglass lectures on, 557n; Douglass praises, 110, 270, 404; Harpers Ferry raid and, 15n, 137n, 303n, 404, 522n, 531, 531n, 540, 595, 597, 607; quoted, 87n; songs about, 109

Brown, John C., 376

Brown, John M., 97, 427

Brown, John S., 70

Brown, Olympia, 176n; debates Douglass, 176— 79; Republican Party and, 172; women's rights and, 146, 180

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Browne, Thomas: quoted, 81n

Browning, Orville H., 125n

Brownlow, Willam G., 456, 456n

Brown University, Providence, R.l., 77—78nn

Bruce, Blanche K., 425n; in Congress, 425, 499n; Douglass's friendship with, 425n; Freedman's Bank and, 425n, 547—51, 555, 557—58, 560; opposes black migration to Midwest, 510

Bruff, William H., 477-78

Brunow, F. F. E., 381n

Brussels, Belg., 117n, 195n

Bryant, William Cullen, 3

Buchanan, James: alleged poisoning of, 114—15, 115n, 170; cabinet of, 156n; Stephen A. Douglas and, 13n; Kansas and, 602; as presidential candidate, 575—76n; racial attititudes of, 60102; secession crisis and, 8, 155—56, 439, 456, 578, 578n, 598

Buckingham, William, 592

Buffalo, N.Y., 124n, 399, 399n, 600; blacks in, 372; Douglass in, 501n; mobs in, 53, 53n

Buffum, James N., 181; lectures with Douglass, 181n

Bulldozers, 523

Bullock, Rufus, 237n

Bull Run, Va.: first battle of, 22n, 74n, 133n, 545

Bunker Hill: blacks at battle of, 72, 229n, 415, 417; monument at, 451, 451n; Robert A. Toombs and, 229

Burch, J. Henri, 427

Bureau of Free Labor (Louisiana), 520n

Burke, Thomas N., 363, 363—64n

Burleigh, Charles C., 172, 259, 414, 607

Burleigh, William H., 134

Burlingame, Anson, 246n

Burlingame Treaty (1868), 246n, 254n

Burlington, Vt.: Douglass speaks in, 240

Burns, Anthony: rendition of, 295, 404

Burritt, Elihu, 569

Burt, William L., 24

Bushman: Douglass campaigns with, 333n; Election-day plot (1864) and, 35n; See Khoikhoi

Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 22, 23n, 270, 332, 603; Douglass campaigns with, 333n; Election-day plot (1864) and, 35n; Southern Loyalists' Convention and, 134—35

Butler, J. Henry, 86

Butler, Matthew C ., 488, 488—89n

Butler, N.Y., 205n

Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 228

Byron, George Gordon, Lord: quoted, 595

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Caesar, Gaius Julius, 434, 536n

Cain, Richard Harvey, 397

Caldwell, Charles, 477

Calhoun, John C., 14, 50, 242, 271, 319, 320n, 325—26n, 446, 471, 592, 597; disunionism and, 204—05; as secretary of state, 569n

California, 114; anti-Chinese sentiments in, 250n; black laws in, 82n; Chinese in, 235n, 249—50, 254, 254n, 529; Democratic Party in, 250n; deputy U.S. marshals in, 579—80, 580n; election of 1863 in, 11n; judiciary of, 285n; mobs in, 529; statehood of, 170

Calvinism, 189n, 190n; Netherlands Revolt and, 188n

Cambridge, (Md.) Intelligencer, 38

Cambridge, Mass., 77n

Campbell, Thomas, 349n

Campbell County, Va., 548n

Camp Douglas, Ill., 34n

Canada, 17n, 310n, 319, 484n; black emigration from, 501n; Douglass flees to, 303n; fugitive slaves flee to, 383n; Indians in, 599; Southern sympathizers and Confederates in, 34n, 113nn; Charles Sumner and, 226n

Canby, E. R. S., 109n

Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 576n

Cape Cod Bay, 484n

Cape Fear, N.C., 84n

Caribbean Sea, 342, 564—65

Caribes, 353n, 600

Carlyle, Thomas, 173, 243, 243n, 271, 364n

Carpetbaggers, 238—39, 238—39n, 248, 303, 488; Douglass defends, 356; Douglass labels himself one, 314; in Washington, D.C., 356

Carthage, 93n, 93—94, 598

Casas, Bartolomé de las: Santo Domingo and, 353n, 604, 606

Casey, James F., 331n

Castle Thunder, Petersburg, Va., 133, 133n

Castle Thunder, Richmond, Va., 133, 133n, 541

Cato, Marcus Porcius, 382—83, 383n:

Cato, N.Y.: Douglass speaks in, 602—03

Cavour, Camillo Benso, comte di, 64n

Celts, 66

Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Md., 496

Center Market, Washington, DC, 447n

Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark, N.J.: Douglass at, 594

Central Pacific Anti-Coolie Association (San Francisco), 250n

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Central Park, New York City, 447n

Centreville, 1nd., 472n

Chamberlain, Daniel H., 586n

Chancellorsville, Va.: battle of, 299n, 545, 545n

Chandler, Zachariah, 124, 400n

Chang and Eng (Siamese twins), 577n

Charming, William Ellery, 75

Channing, William Henry, 215n

Charles II (king of England), 237n

Charles IX (king of France), 196n

Charleston, S.C., 91n, 92n, 211, 438n, 587; black soldiers in, 71, 71n, 109, 109n; Confederate evacuation of, 71n, 109n; Memorial Day celebrations in, 481n; removal of U.S. Army from, 486n; Robert Smalls and, 130; Denmark Vesey in, 532n

Charles V (Holy Roman emperor and king of Spain), 189n, 189—90, 190nn, 196m, 316; abdication of, 190n, 594

Charles X (king of France), 223, 224n

Charter of 1814 (France), 224n

Chartists, 132n, 213n

Chase, Salmon P., 106, 107; Greenbacks and, 582n; as secretary of the Treasury, 549n, 582n, 583

Chattanooga, Tenn, 539n; battle of, 74n, 299n

Chaucer, William, 576n

Cheever, George B., 54, 54n, 135n

Cheney, Moses, 402, 402n

Cheney, Persons C., 402, 402—03n

Chesapeake Bay, 43, 52

Chesbrough, Ellis S., 174n

Cheyennes, 245n

Chicago, Ill., 174, 286n, 395n; blacks in, 372; Douglass in, 342; Douglass speaks in, 93n, 240, 593—94, 599, 605; Election-Day plot (1864) and, 34—35n; fire in, 349, 349n; Andrew Johnson in, 159n; mobs in, 229; newspapers in, 599; Frederick Law Olmsted and, 447n; Republican Party convention (1860) in, 155, 155n, 566n, 566—67, 593; water supply of, 174n, 184

Chicago River, 174n

Chile, 270n

Chillicothe, Ohio, 472n

Chilon, 471n

China: agriculture in, 382, 390; emigrants to U.S. from, 235n, 246—55, 257—59; U.S. relations with, 246

Chinese: accomplishments of, 258, 599; character of, 249; emigration of, to U.S., 235n, 246—

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55, 257—59, 507, 507n, 529n; stereotypes of, 257—58, 599

Chinese Americans, 272; in California, 249—50, 529; compared to blacks, 248—50, 513, 599; discrimination against, 250n, 251—52, 529, 570, 599; education of, 254n; as laborers, 248—50, 502, 595; population of, in U.S., 246, 246n; in postbellum South, 248—49

Chipman, Norton P. , 283, 285n; as candidate for territorial delegate, 283—84n, 285, 286—88

Chiriqui, Panama, 501n

Choate, Rufus, 157, 157n, 543n

Christianity: baptism of blacks and, 262—63; black culture and, 94; Chinese resistance to, 258; proslavery sentiments of, 200; repentance and, 116; in Santo Domingo, 346-47

Christophe, Henri, 606

Chumasero, John C., 75

Church of England: See Anglican Church

Church of the Puritans, New York City, 54n, 79— 80

Cincinnati, Ohio, 77n, 298n, 370n; Democratic Party convention (1872) in, 339, 567; Douglass speaks in, 186—99, 440—43, 593, 594; free blacks in, 422n; Republican Party convention (1876) in, 440

Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial, 186

Cincinnati Law School, 285n

Cincinnati Observatory, 381n

Cincinnati Weather Bulletin, 381n

Cinques, Joseph, 532

Citizenship: of blacks, 67, 72—73, 98—99, 143, 145, 266, 334, 361, 420, 499, 531, 598

City Assembly Rooms, Washington, D.C., 118

City Hall, Boston, Mass, 183n

City Hall, New York City, 326n

City Hall, Rochester, N.Y., 278

City Hall, Washington, D.C., 286; Douglass at, 476

City Springs Park, Richmond, Va., 302

City University of New York, New York City, 135n, 142n, 381n

Civil rights: of blacks, 56, 80, 80n, 82—85

Civil Rights Act (1866): constitutionality of, 340n; Edgar Cowan and, 162n; creation of, 120n, 273; Democratic Party and, 426n; opponents of, 125n, 161n; Republican Party and, 155n

Civil Rights Act (1875): constitutionality of, 405; creation of, 405n; Democratic Party and, 405; Liberal Republicans and, 426n; opponents of,

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417n; Republican Party and, 405, 417n, 426, 426n; Charles Sumner and, 426, 426n

Civil service reform: Democratic Party and, 442n; election of 1876 and, 442n; James A. Garfield and, 471n; Rutherford B. Hayes and, 571n; need for, 462—65; opponents of, 471n; Republican Party and, 442n; Stalwarts and, 571n; supporters of, 442n, 537n

Civil War: blacks and, 297—98, 416—17; blacks as officers' servants in, 177; black soldiers in, 95, 138, 211—12, 324, 415, 601; black suffrage and, 62, 66—67; call for unconditional surrender in, 53—54; casualties in, 5, 30, 141 , 141n, 291, 291n, 430, 441, 450, 481n, 579; causes of, 5—6, 403, 433, 486, 491—92, 591; compared to Netherlands Revolt, 594—97; compared to other wars, 5; Democratic Party and, 8—9, 277, 491—92, 536, 578—79, 591; Douglass characterizes, 18—19, 37, 54—55, 108, 154—55, 242, 482-84, 489—91; Douglass criticizes conduct of, 7, 33; economic consequences of, 502n; financial cost of, 18—19, 141, 291n, 441, 579; France and, 212; Great Britain and, 212, 225, 225n, 591; Greenbacks issued during, 582n; international significance of, 591, 592; military progress of, 5, 8, 31, 76—77; Republican Party and, 582, 600, 611; slavery and, xv, 3—4, 5, 7—8, 54—55, 64, 71, 119, 141, 230—31, 290, 336, 487, 601; Southern character and, 154-55; Trans-Mississippi theater of, 52n; U.S. Constitution and, 64, 526

“Claims on England—Individual and National" (Sumner), 225—26n

Clarendon, George William Villiers, Lord, 225n

Clarendon Hall, New York City, 577n

Clark, Daniel, 229n

Clark, Peter Humphries, 186

Clarke, Enos, 342

Clarke, James Freeman, 24, 180, 180n

Clarke's Hall, Washington, D.C., 422

Clarkson, Thomas, 228, 607—09

Clarksville, Geo., 320n

Claxton, R. Bethell, 75

Clay, Henry, 50, 75, 146n, 242, 271, 399, 399n, 418, 446, 471; Haiti and, 204; Mexican cession and, 170n; slavery and, 365, 367

Clement, James H., 303

Clephane, James O.: reports Douglass's remarks, 97

Cleveland, Grover: administration of, 92n, 472n, 488n, 548n, 555n, 586n; Thomas A. Hen-

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dricks and, 205n; as presidential candidate (1884), 537n, 538n

Cleveland, Ohio, 600; Election-Day plot (1864) and, 34-35n; Andrew Johnson speaks in, 159n

Club Unioniste Républicain (New Orleans), 25n

Cobb, Howell, 85n

Cobden, Richard, 18, 166, 332, 332n

Coffin, Allen, 283n

Coker, Daniel, 39n, 40n

Cold Harbor, Va.: battle of, 400n

Colfax, La.: mobs in, 404n

Colfax, Schuyler, 440n

College Faustin, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 92n

College of the City of New York, New York City: See City University of New York, New York City

Collins, M.E., 563

Colombia, 57n

Colonization of blacks: black opposition to, 57, 129, 591, 613; Democratic party and, 57n; impracticality of, 57, 591; Liberia and, 57n; Lincoln and, 57n, 138n, 501n; opposition to, 129; Republican party and, 57n; supporters of, 138n, 161n, 370, 420—21; United States Congress and, 57n, 501n. See also American Colonization Society; Black emigration movement

Colorado, 232n

Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, The (Nell), 416n

Colored People’s Board of Emigration (St. Louis, Mo.), 521n

Colored Republican Central Committee (New York City), 581

Colored Veterans of the Civil War (Elmira, N. Y. ), 563

Columbia, Pa., 383n

Columbia, S.C., 109n

Columbia Typographical Union (Washington, D.C.), 231n, 232—33n

Columbus, Christopher: in Bahamas, 346n; compared to William of Nassau, 199, 597; in Cuba, 346n; Santo Domingo and, 343n, 346, 346n, 351, 353; voyages of, 46, 46n, 247, 346n

Columbus, Ohio, 494, 494n

Comanches, 245n

“Composite Nationality” (Douglass): See “Our Composite Nationality” (Douglass)

Concert Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., 407; Douglass at, 591

Concord, N.H.: Douglass in, 402, 402n; Douglass speaks in, 401—07, 406n

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Concord (N.H.) Daily Monitor, 406n

“Conduct of Life“ (Emerson), 142n

Confederate Army: atrocities of, 113, 113n, 133, 133n, 592; blacks in, 27n, 85, 85n; campaign in Pennsylvania of, 591; casualties of, 141n, 236n; in Charleston, S.C., 91—92n; Memorial Day celebrations of, 482n; officers of, 52n, 77n, 400n, 488n, 488—89n, 539n, 585n; prison camps of, 287n, 541n, 595; surgeons of, 548n; surrender of, 76n, 109, 109n; treatment as prisoners, 114n; in Virginia, 71n

Confederate Congress: black soldiers and, 85n; members of, 555n

Confederate Navy, 17— 18n, 92n, 227—28n

Confederate States of America: blacks and, 56, 66, 91n, 95; capital of, 303; confiscation of Federal property by, 155—56n; defeat of, 84, 604; diplomacy of, 17nn, 113, 117n, 117—18, 287—88n; Douglass characterizes, 14; Election-Day plot (1864) and, 34n; enlistment of black soldiers by, 55n, 55—56, 85n, 143; flag of, 6; France and, 227n; occupation of, 56n; officials of, 488n, 538; population of, 439; provisional government of, 400n; treatment of prisoners of war by, 114n; Union naval blockade of, 117n; Union sympathizers in, 146n; war aims of, 54

Confiscation Act (1862): black emigration and, 501n; colonization of blacks and, 57n; Edgar Cowan and, 162n

Confucius, 258, 258n; teachings of, 249, 249n

Congo River, 435n

Congregational Church: blacks and, 604; ministers in, 205n, 552n

Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., 300, 604—05

Conkling, Roscoe, 471n; Chester A. Arthur and, 571 n; as candidate for presidential nomination, 442n; Alonzo B. Cornell and, 535n; Douglass praises, 471—72, 541; James A. Garfield and, 567n; Stalwarts and, 571n; Charles Sumner and, 400n

Connecticut: black suffrage in, 179, 179n; Democratic Party in, 179n; nicknames for, 484, 484n; politicians of, 426n, 442n, 578n, 592; Union Army units from, 71n, 484

Connolly, Thomas C. , 283n

Conscription, 20, 67n, 117—18

Conscription Act (1864), 67n

Conservative Party (Great Britain), 132n; candidates of, 548n; Gilbert C. Walker and, 236n

Continental Army (U.S.), 454, 454n