e Negroes to obtain an Education.--General Order
organizing a "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands."--Gen. O. O. Howard appointed Commissioner of the
Bureau.--Report of all the Receipts and Expenditures of the
Freedman's Bureau from 1865-1867.--An Act Incorporating the
Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company.--The Business of the
Company as shown from 1866-1871.--Financial Statement by the
Trustees for 1872.--Failure of the Bank.--The Social and
Financial Condition of the Colored People in the South.--The
Negro rarely receives Justice in Southern Courts.--Treatment of
Negroes as Convicts in Southern Prisons.--Increase of the Colored
People from 1790-1880.--Negroes susceptible of the Highest
Civilization 384

CHAPTER XXIII.

REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN.

Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.--The Legal Destruction
of Slavery and a Constitutional Prohibition.--Fifteenth Amendment
granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro.--President
Grant's Special Message upon the Subject.--Universal Rejoicing
among the Colored People.--The Negro in the United States Senate
and House of Representatives.--The Negro in the Diplomatic
Service of the Country.--Frederick Douglass--His Birth,
Enslavement, Escape to the North, and Life as a Freeman.--Becomes
an Anti-slavery Orator.--Goes to Great Britain.--Returns to
America.--Establishes the "North Star."--His Eloquence,
Influence, and Brilliant Career.--Richard Theodore Greener.--His
Early Life, Education, and Successful Literary Career.--John P.
Green.--His Early Struggles to obtain an Education.--A Successful
Orator, Lawyer, and Useful Legislator.--Other Representative
Colored Men.--Representative Colored Women 419

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Its Origin, Growth, Organization, and Excellent Influence.--Its
Publishing House, Periodicals, and Papers.--Its Numerical and
Financial Strength.--Its Missionary and Educational
Spirit.--Wilberforce University 452

CHAPTER XXV.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Founding of the M. E. Church of America in 1768.--Negro Servants
and Slaves among the First Contributors to the Erection of the
First Chapel in New York.--The R