ion adopted, 3;
Negroes leave for Canada, 71;
laws against free Negroes and Mulattoes, in, 112;
fugitive-slave law recognized, 112;
law to prevent kidnapping of free Negroes, 113;
first constitution, 113, 114;
free Negroes denied the right to vote, excluded from the militia
service, separate schools, 119;
Colored schools established, 170-172;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422;
Negroes, members of the Legislature, 447.

Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, report on the condition of the people
of color, 1835, 136-138.

Owen, Richard, first native Methodist preacher in America, 465.

Paducah, Ky., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.

Park, Benjamin, report in favor of the modification of the ordinance
of 1787, in Indiana Territory, 6.

Parker, Mary S., President of the Anti-Slavery Women of
America, 80.

Parker, Theodore, favors the extinction of slavery, 48.

Paul, William, his connection with the Negro plot in Charleston,
S. C., 1822, 85.

Payne, Daniel A., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.

Peck, Maj.-Gen. John J., letter to Gen. Pickett, relative to killing
of Negro soldier after surrendering, 356.

Pemberton, John, bequest for the education of Colored people, 175.

Pennsylvania, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9;
resolutions against the extension of slavery, 16;
anti-slavery society, 20;
slave population, 1820, 22;
Quakers emancipate their slaves, 38;
slave population, 1840, 100;
Colored schools established, 172-178;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Pennsylvania Abolition Society, establish Colored schools, 175, 176.

Perry, Capt. Oliver Hazard, letter to Commodore Chauncey,
complaining of the Negro sailors sent him, 28;
commends bravery of the Negro sailors at Lake Erie, 29.

Petersburg, Va., Negro troops engaged in the siege of, 335-337;
lead the charge on the advance works, 338, 339.

Phelps, Brig.-Gen. J. W., report in favor of enlisting Negroes, 285;
applies for arms and clothing for Negro regiments, his policy in
regard to the employment