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Europe, 245, 451; agriculture in, 384; Americans in, 178n, 447n, 537n; antislavery sentiment in, 15; attitude toward U.S., of, 91; compared to Africa, 93; Confederacy and, 17nn, 177n; Douglass in, 542n, 600; emigration to U.S. from, 247, 601; feudalism in, 267, 519; monarchical governments in, 108, 152, 165, 174, 403, 499, 606; nationalist movements in, 222— 23; people of, 272; racial discrimination in, 599; religious wars in, 296, 315—16, 330, 403, 410, 601; revolutions in, 4, 532, 594; slavery in, 144; U.S. emancipation and, 606—07; U.S. relations with, 55

Eustis, William, 415n

Evarts, William M., 539n

Everett, Edward, 609

Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 534n

Ewing, Thomas, Sr., 74n

Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C, 121, 198n, 270, 285, 288, 301n, 323, 463, 601; Douglass at, 77n, 97—106, 138, 138n

Exhibition Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, 567n

Exposition Hall, Chicago, Ill., 566n

Exposition Hall, Louisville, Ky.: Douglass at, 360—61, 600

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa., 408n, 477n

Fall River, Mass.: Douglass in, 306

Fall River Manufactory, Fall River, Mass., 306n

Fancher, Molly, 577n

Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., 72n, 73, 295, 322, 324, 331n, 335n, 395, 449n, 507n; Douglass at, 69, 323—24n, 335

Farmington, Me.: Douglass in, 333n

Farragut, David G., 159n

Farwell Hall, Chicago, Ill.: Douglass at, 599

Federal Suffrage Association, 176n

Female Seminary, Charlestown, Mass., 395n

Ferdinand (king of Spain), 189n, 190n, 191n, 195n, 196,196n; defeat of Muslims by, 520n

Ferry, Orris S., 426n

Fessenden, Samuel, 332n

Fessenden, William Pitt, 163n

Feudalism, 267

Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., 503

Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, 22—23n; Charles Douglass in, 279n; in Richmond, Va., 71n

Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 71n, 72, 72n

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Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 72n, 234—35n; in Charleston, S.C., 71n; Douglass's sons in, 232n, 279n

Fillmore, Millard: compared to Charles Sumner, 399; death of, 399, 399n; Douglass criticizes, 155, 170; Fugitive Slave Law (1850) and, 114, 363, 399, 593—94; as presidential candidate, 488n; as vice-president, 114n, 170n, 593

Fink, Albert, 371n

Fire-eaters, 191, 191n

First Colored Methodist Protestant Church, Baltimore, Md., 39—40n

First Congregationalist Church, Washington, D.C.: Congregational Society of, 550n

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, Ill.: Douglass at, 593

First National Bank, Indianapolis, Ind., 567n

First Presbyterian Church, Washington D.C., 107n; Douglass at, 106—07

First Rhode Island Regiment, 415n

First South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 22n—23n

Fish, Hamilton, 293n, 400n

Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.: Douglass speaks at, 376

Fleet, B. D., 503

Fletcher, Andrew, 358n

Florence, Italy, 431n

Florida, 342; annexation of, 604; Jim Crow laws in, 298n; politicians of, 97, 581; secession of, 438n

Florida (ship), 17—18n, 225n

Floyd, John Buchanan, 578

Foote, Henry S., 85n

Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., 75n, 79nn, 115n

Fomey, John W., 575, 575—76n

Forster, William Edward, 18

Forten, James, 561n

Fort Lafayette, N.Y., 35n

Fort Mercer, Red Bank, N.J.: battle of, 415n

Fort Pillow, Tenn.: battle of, 592

Fortress Monroe, Va., 122n

Fort Sumter, S.C., 4, 13, 35, 35n, 108, 438n

Fort Wagner, S.C.: battle of, 56, 56—57n, 232n, 234, 235n; black soldiers at, 56—57n

Foster, Abby Kelley, 81, 81n, 184, 259, 409, 413

Foster, Charles, 534n

Foster, Stephen Symonds: American Anti-Slavery Society and, 202, 259; American Equal Rights Association and, 214, 214n; black suffrage and, 80; marries Abby Foster, 81n; oratory of, 607— 09; Revolution and, 215n; in Rhode Island, 81

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Fourth of July: celebration of, 414; Douglass on, 152, 415

Fourth South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 71n

France, 17, 93n, 194, 195n, 196, 223n, 274; compared to the U.S., 64; Confederacy and, 17nn, 117n, 227n; Franco-Prussian War and, 274n, 291, 345; government of, 291n, 324, 602; Mexico and, 165n; Napoleon I and, 223; Paris Commune and, 291n; religious uniformity in, 599; Revolution of 1789 in, 223; Revolution of 1830 in, 223, 224n; Revolution of 1848 in, 4n; Santo Domingo and, 343n, 512, 606; Second Republic of, 4; Third Republic of, 274n; U.S. relations with, 117n, 538n

Franciscan Order, 347n

Francis Charles, Archduke, 165n

Francis I (king of France), 196n

Francis II (king of France), 196n

Francis Joseph I (emperor of Austria), 165n

Franco-Prussian War, 64n, 274, 274nn, 291n

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 303n

Franklin, Benjamin: antislavery of, 365; intemational reputation of, 91; quoted, 389, 527, 527n, 565, 565n

Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, 161n

Frazer's Magazine (Great Britain), 364n

Frederick Douglass' Paper, 186

Fredericksburg, Va., 303

Frederick William II (king of Prussia), 274n

Free Academy, New York City: See City University of New York

Free African Society, Philadelphia, Pa., 40n

Free blacks: advancement of, 95; discrimination against, 47, 498n; emigration projects and, 501n; employment of, 56, 56n; in Louisiana, 24, 25n, 28n, 56; in Maryland, 498n; personal liberty laws and, 53n; right to bear arms and, 83; in South Carolina, 56; suffrage and, 122, 122n; Union army and, 56n. See also Black laws; Blacks; Freedmen

Free Democratic Party: candidates of, 296n

Freedman’s Bank: see Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D.C., 561n

Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company: benevolent societies and, 421; bookkeeping procedures of, 561n; branches of, 548, 548n, 550n; causes of failure of, 556—57, 557n; circulars to depositors of, 551—52, 551—52n, 554, 555, 560; closing of, xv, 546—47, 553—54; debts incurred by, 546—47; depositors repaid by, 373n, 559; Douglass as depositor in, 373,

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373n, 552—54; Douglass as president of, xv, 547n, 547—59; Douglass's testimony before Congress on, 546—59; fraud and mismanagement in, 549n; in Houston, Tex., 550n; insolvency of, 547—48, 548—49, 549n, 552, 557n; loan policies of, 556n, 556—57; in New York City, 548n; officers of, 383n, 550n, 553, 553n, 554n, 558, 559n; in Philadelphia, Pa., 383n, 561; reorganization of, 554, 554nn, 558, 558n, 559; Senate investigation of, 546—59; in Texas, 550n; in Washington, D..C, 548n, 561

Freedmen: camps of, 19n; condition of, in postbellum South, 40, 56n, 238, 413, 512—15, 517—33, 610, 612—13; education of, 142n, 553n; equal rights for, 61—62, 82—85, 155n; Freedman's Bank and, 373n; freedmen's aid societies and, 68n; Freedmen’s Bureau and, 572n; Andrew Johnson and, 102; land distribution and, 56n; suffrage and, 121—22; Union army and, 56n

Freedmen’s aid societies, 56n, 67—68

Freedmen’s Aid Society (New Orleans, La.), 27n

Freedmen’s Bureau: John W. Alvord in, 553n; Charles Douglass in, 279n; freedmen's aid societies and, 68n; Andrew Johnson and, 125n, 298n, 572, 572n; limitation of, 67—68; officials of, 238n, 421n, 520—21n, 550n; schools of, 553n; Thaddeus Stevens and, 572n

Freedmen’s Bureau Act (1866), 155n

Freedmen's Memorial Monument, Washington, D.C., 427; contributions for building of, 431 n; Douglass and, 432, 440

Freeland, William, Jr., 584n

Free Religious Association, 215n

Free Soil Party, 26n, 30n, 409n, 597

Free speech: abolitionists and, 10, 229; Douglass defends, 318; slavery inhibits, 308

Free trade: Thomas F. Bayard, Sr., and, 472n; Douglass advocates, 47; Horace Greeley and, 311, 311n; as political issue, 533

Free Will Baptist Church, 402n

Fremont, John Charles, 596, 598; emancipation and, 433; Lincoln removes from command, 433

Fremont (Ohio) Weekly Journal, 614—16

French Americans, 256

Friends School, Providence, R.1., 81n

“From Greenland’s lcy Mountains” (Heber): quoted, 346

Frothingham, Octavius B., 214, 215n

Froude, James A., 363, 363—64n

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Fugitive Slave Law (1850): aids abolitionism, 111; American churches and, 363; clerical supporters of, 363, 607; Democratic Party and, 10, 289, 602; enforcement of, 20, 55, 234; Millard Fillmore and, 399; Lincoln and, 22, 22n, 297, 432; in Missouri, 431n; personal liberty laws and, 53n; press and, 363; protests against, 362; provisions of, 362; Slave states demand, 14, 58; Charles Sumner and, 398, 399; supporters of, 449n

Fugitive slaves: experiences of, 295—96; personal liberty laws and, 53n; Union army and, 64—65

Fulton, Charles C., 603

Furness, William H., 407

Gage, Matilda, 215n

Gailbraith Lyceum, Washington, D.C., 542n

Galena, Ill., 538n

Galilei, Galileo, 597

Gallatin, Tenn., 375

Gardner, William, 498n

Garfield, James A. , 566—67n; administration of, 517n, 538n, 567n; appoints Douglass recorder of deeds for District of Columbia, 584n; assassination of, 567n; character of, 570, 573; civil service reform and, 471n, 587n; compared to Winfield Scott Hancock, 569—70; Roscoe Conkling and, 471n; Douglass on, 586—87, 611; as general, 570; as presidential candidate, 566—67nn, 566—74, 571nn, 580, 586—87; as self-made man, 586—87; as speaker of House of Representatives, 573

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 64n

Garland, Augustus H., 555n; Freedman's Bank and, 547, 555—59, 558n, 560

Garnet, Henry Highland, 92, 259, 263, 263n; annexation of Santo Domingo and, 604; quoted, 239; Republican Party and, 440, 581; supports black migration to Midwest, 510

Garrett, Richard H., 79n

Garrison, William Lloyd, 24, 276n, 323, 407, 412, 419; American Anti-Slavery Society and, 80, 82; attacked by mobs, 369, 369n, 509, 601; black suffrage and, 60, 80, 213, 267, 267n; childhood of, 505; Chinese immigration and, 507, 507n; death of, 503, 507n; Douglass criticized by, 80; Douglass praises, 267—70, 272, 296, 368—69, 419; eulogized by Douglass, 503-09; immediate emancipation and, 230—31, 601, 608; influences Douglass, 43; Liberator and, 344n, 449n; opposition to,

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505—07, 509; supports black migration to Midwest, 507, 507n, 510; tours with Douglass, 262n; woman suffrage and, 180, 395

Garrisonian Abolitionists, 262n, 413; blacks as, 278n, 322; freedmen's aid societies and, 68n; women's rights and, 81n

Geneva Academy (Hobart College), N.Y., 7n, 16ln

George III (king of England), 192, 594

Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 292n

Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., 287n

Georgia: black suffrage in, 237; Civil War in, 74n, 109n, 212n; Ku Klux Klan in, 338n; offers bounty for Garrison, 369n; politicians of, 229n, 237, 237n, 488n; poll tax in, 603; readmission to Union of, 237n; Reconstruction in, 179n, 488n; Republican Party in, 237n; secession of, 438n; slavery in, 211n; taxes paid by blacks in, 525, 525n, 527

Georgiana (ship), 285n

Georgia Pacific Railroad, 488n

Gerard, Balthasar, 198n, 595, 615

German Americans, 256, 502, 523, 523n, 599

Gerrnania Band (Boston, Mass.), 70

Germans, 65, 386, 513

Germany, 194, 196; Franco-Prussian War and, 274n; monarchical government of, 602; Revolution of 1830 in, 224, 224n; Revolution of 1848 in, 298n; unification of, 274n, 604

Gettysburg, Pa.: battle at, 117n, 117—18, 299n

Gibbon, Edward, 225, 225n, 242

Gibson, John, 411

Giddings, Joshua Reed, 270; censured by U.S. House of Representatives, 423—24, 611; Benjamin Franklin Wade and, 580n

Gilbert, Olive, 276n

Gilmore House, Baltimore, Md.: Douglass at, 600

Gladstone, William Ewart, 17, 17n, 226

Godwyn, Morgan: baptism of blacks and, 177, 177n, 262—63, 317, 365—66, 410—12, 544, 601

Goodell, William, 608

Gordon, Fanny Haralson, 488n

Gordon, John B., 488, 488n

Gordon, Nathaniel P., 435n

Gough, John B., 310, 310n

Gould, Benjamin, 381n

Granada, Spain, 520n

Granby, Lord: See Manners, John

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Grand Army of the Republic: membership of, 481n; Memorial Day celebrations and, 289, 480—82, 481—82n; in New York City, 480— 82, 481n; political influence of, 481n

Grangers, 176n

Grant, Frederick Dent, 331n

Grant, Ulysses S., 74n, 300, 305—06; administration of, 142n, 236, 270, 270n, 279n, 285n, 293, 293n, 538n, 549n, 558n, 576n; appoints Douglass assistant secretary of U.S. Santo Domingo Commission, xv; appoints Douglass to D.C. territorial assembly, 292; black support of, 323, 418; as candidate for presidential nomination (1880), 538, 566n, 571nn; cartoons of, 358n; compared to William of Nassau, 196, 598; corruption charges against administration of, 331n, 331—32, 332n, 442n, 537n; Democrats and, 601—02; family of, 331n, 331—32; fifteenth amendment and, 199, 270; James A. Garfield and, 567n, 571n; Haitian ministers and, 601—02; Indian policy of, 245, 264—65n, 335; Andrew Johnson and, 159n; Ku Klux Klan and, 338, 338n; memorial to Lincoln and, 427—28, 430; in Milan, Italy, 489, 490n; opponents of, 331n, 538n; as presidential candidate (1868), 181, 181n, 185, 185n, 197, 197n, 485, 539n, 608; as presidential candidate (1872), 299, 302, 311—13, 318, 321—22, 325, 329, 330—31, 331n, 332n, 333, 335n, 338, 341, 358, 399n, 400, 400—01n, 535n, 574n, 602; quoted, 485, 489, 490n, 539; Reconstruction policy of, 404, 404—05n, 485n; Republican Party and, 580; Santo Domingo annexation and, 281n, 328, 332, 342, 343, 604—05; as Stalwart, 571 , 571nn; Charles Sumner and, 323, 331n, 332n, 400n; supporters of, 294n, 418, 471n; as Union general, 56— 57n, 71n, 74, 76, 76n, 109, 109n, 236, 326, 457; veterans organizations and, 489, 489— 90n; Elihu B. Washburne and, 538n

Grant Parish, La.: mobs in, 404n

Granville, Antoine, 596—97

Great Britain, 43, 162n, 194, 196, 213; abolitionism in, 607-09; abolitionists in, 221-22, 228, 228n, 363n, 414; agriculture in, 382, 387, 390, 390n; American Civil War and, 225, 225n, 585n, 591; antislavery in, 221—25, 224, 227—28; attitude toward U.S., in, 142; blacks in, 123, 546; British West Indies and, 221-22, 224, 605; civil war in, 189n, 237n; compared to United States, 149; composite nationality

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of, 254, 519; Confederacy and, 17nn, 113, 117n, 225, 225n; Douglass in, 137n, 181, 303n, 361; emigrants to U.S. from, 310n; government of, 161, 165—66, 324, 585n; Ireland and, 65—66, 91, 363—64n; press of, 226; slavery in, 121, 479—80; slave trade and, 221, 435n; Sudan and, 596; suffrage in, 132, 132n; U.S. ambassadors to, 472n; U.S. independence from, 415; U.S. relations with, 117n, 225—26n, 227n; West Indies emancipation and, 228

Greece, 598; agriculture in, 384; Ottoman empire and, 605; racial prejudice in, 250

Greeley, Horace: on agriculture, 382, 382n, 447; cartoons of, 358n; Douglass longtime friendship for, 320—22, 338—39; editorials of, 12n, 450n; Liberal Republican Party and, 322—23, 400—01n; Lincoln and, 12, 12n; political inconsistency of, 309— 12, 321, 330, 602—03; as presidential candidate, 298n, 309—12, 310n, 321—22, 322—23, 325, 327n, 328-30, 329n, 330, 330n, 331n, 333, 338—39, 358n, 400, 400—01n, 535n, 574, 602—03; release of Jefferson Davis and, 539, 539n; Charles Sumner and, 331n, 333, 400; Tammany Hall and, 312n

Green, A.M., 397, 422

Greenback-Peoples’ Party, 176n, 442n, 534nn

Greenbacks: origin and use of, 582n; redemption of, 534n; Republican Party and, 582—83. See also Currency policy; Greenback-Peoples’ Party

Greene, Christopher, 415n

Greener, Richard Theodore, 503, 510

Greenland, 465

Gregory XIII (pope), 186—87, 614—15

Grider, Henry, 116n

Grimké, Angelina, 81n

Grinnell, Moses, 331n, 332n

Grotius, Hugo, 191n

Guiney, Patrick R., 70

Guiteau, Charles, 567n

Gulf of Mexico, 295

Gumbleton, Henry A., 536n

Gustavus III (king of Sweden), 615

Habeas corpus, 10

Hagar, 452n

Hahn, Michael, 112n

“Hail to the Chief" (song), 265, 428

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Haiti: black emigration to, 57m, 500, 501n; Henry Clay and, 204; education in, 301; emancipation in, 267; independence of, 434; ministers to U.S. of, 601—02; population of, 342, 343n; proposed annexation of, 606; Santo Domingo and, 604; U.S. ministers to, 203-04, 204n, 270n, 434; U.S. recognition of, 23, 204, 434, 591

Hale, George S., 24

Hale, John P., 484; in election of 1852, 296, 296n

Hall, David, 435n

Hall, Robert, 171h

Hambleton, John Needles, 479n

Hambleton, Louisa, 479n

Hambleton, Samuel, 479, 479h

Hamilton, James, 134

Hamilton, Schuyler, 481

Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 236n, 440n

Hamlet (Shakespeare): quoted, 142, 183, 251, 275, 286, 303, 376, 377, 488, 501, 527

Hamlin, Hannibal, 322, 332—33n

Hammond, William, 577n

Hampden-Sydney College, Va., 52n

Hampton, Wade, 585, 585 —86n

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 567n; as presidential candidate, 567nn, 567-75, 574n, 576n, 582, 586n, 587

Handy, James A., 39n

Hanks, John, 110n

Hapsburgs, 64n, 120n, 165n, 189n, 190nn, 195n, 196n

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 199, 219, 407

Harper and Brothers, 537n

Harper’s Bazaar, 537n

Harpers Ferry, Va.: John Brown’s raid on, 15, 137n, 303n, 531, 531n, 540, 595

Harper’s Monthly, 55n, 537n

Harper’s Weekly, 478, 537nn, 615; election of 1872 and, 358n

Harris, Mr., 328

Harris, C. H., 300

Harris, James H., 313

Harrison, Benjamin, 517n, 538n

Harrison, William Henry, 114n; cabinet of, 569n; death of, 114, 169, 568n

Hartranft, John F., 442n, 602

Hansdale, Tenn., 413n

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 180n; Harvard College, 26n, 215n, 234n, 449n; Harvard Divinity School, 215n

Hawaii, 270n

Hawley, Joseph R., 485n, 539n

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 537n

Hayden, Julia, 413, 413n:

Hayes, Rutherford B., 485—86n; administration of, 299n, 492, 534nn, 539n; appoints Douglass U.S. marshal for District of Columbia, xv—xvi, 443, 475, 584n; civil service reform and, 471n, 535n, 537n; compared to Lincoln, 495; Democratic Party and, 540—41; Douglass meets with, 494, 494n; election of 1878 and, 493; as governor of Ohio, 472, 485n, 494, 494n; patronage policy of, 486n, 585, 585n; as presidential candidate, 442m, 574n; protection of black suffrage by, 493, 493n, 494n, 494—95; Reconstruction policy of, 485, 485n, 488, 493—96, 524n, 524—25, 539, 540n, 580n, 586; sectional reconciliation policy of, 493n, 571n, 585n; Stalwarts and, 571n; supporters of, 537n

Hazard, Samuel, 349n, 352n

Headly, John W., 113

Healy, George Peter Alexander, 72n

Heber, Reginald: quoted, 346

Heep, Uriah, 164

Hendricks, Thomas A., 205, 205n

Henry, Joseph, 381n

Henry, Patrick, 216n; quoted, 307, 307n

Henry II (king of France), 196n, 596, 598

Henry III (king of France), 196n

Henry IV (king of France), 196n

Henry of Navarre: See Henry IV (king of France)

Herodotus, 384

Herod the Great (king of Judea), 504n

Herold, David E., 79n

Hessians, 415n

Heth, Joice, 577n

Heyrick, Elizabeth, 607—08

Heywood, John, 164n, 376

Hicks, Thomas H., 558n

Hicks, William Watkin, 581

Higginson, Thomas W., 172, 184, 395

Hill, Benjamin H. , 488a; anti-northern sentiment of, 611; defeated by John B. Gordon, 488n; Reconstruction and, 488, 538

Hillis, Mr. (abolitionist), 209n, 209—10

Hillsborough, Md., 136n

Hinckley, Frederick W., 289

Hinduism, 250, 250n

Hiram Institute, Hiram, Ohio, 566n

Hispaniola: See Santo Domingo

History of New England (Palfrey), 26n

History of the Dutch Republic (Motley), 186

History of Woman Suflrage (Stanton and Gages). 215n