ion of the first M. E. chapel in
N. Y., 465;
number of, imported from Africa, from the year 1500 to 1860, 544;
number of fugitive and manumitted, in United States, 1850, 146;
education of prohibited, 148, 158, 178-181;
the tax on, in Delaware, added to the school fund for the
education of white children only, 157;
proceeds of the sale of, in Florida, added to the school fund, 158;
conduct regulated, and preaching of the Gospel by, declared
unlawful in Miss., 163;
school for, at N. Y., 1704, 164;
Society for Promoting the Manumission of, organized, 165;
meetings of, forbidden, 180;
fugitive-slave bill passed, 215;
aid for the relief of, in Kansas, 216;
John Brown's plan for freeing, 219;
increase of, 228;
number in the United States, 1860, 229;
value of labor products of, 1850, 229;
number of owners of, 230;
Constitution of the Confederate States, 233;
Lincoln favors the gradual emancipation of, 239.

Smith, Abiel, founds school-house for Colored children, 162.

Smith, Elizabeth, establishes school for Colored children, 212.

Smith, James M., pupil of the N. Y. African free school, his
address to Gen. Lafayette, 167.

Smith, Rev., John C., organizes the First Colored Presbyterian
Church of Washington, D. C., 190.

Smith, Melancthon, mentioned, 166.

Smith, Maj.-Gen., W. F., marches on Petersburg, 336;
commends the bravery of the Negro troops, 338, 340, 346.

Smothers, Henry, establishes school for Colored children, 185.

Snow, Benjamin, cause of the Snow riot at Washington, D. C.,
leaves for Canada, 188.

South Carolina, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9,
1820, 22;
Negro plot, 1822, 83;
slave population, 1830, 99,
1840, 1850, 100;
education of Negroes prohibited, 178-180;
secedes from the Union, 232;
Gen. Hunter's proclamation emancipating slaves, 257,
rescinded, 258;
regiment of loyal Negroes organized, 278;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 300;
exploits of the first volunteers, Negro regiment, 314;
represented in Congress by Negroes, 382;
Negro population in excess of the white, 386;
school population, 387;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.