John Reading, Mary Reading, Charles Brown, John Miles, Hannah
Williams, Betsy Harris, Douglass Brown, Susannah Foster, Thomas
Burros, Mary Thomson, James and Freelove Buck, Lucy Glapcion,
Lucy Lewis, Eliza Williams, Diana Bayle, Caesar and Sylvia Caton,
---- Thompson, William Guin.

_Albany_--Elone Virginia, Abijah Reed and Lydia Reed, Abijah
Reed, Jr., Rebecca Reed and Betsy Reed.

_New Jersey_--Stephen Boadley, Hannah Victor.

_Philadelphia_--Polly Boadley, James Long, Hannah Murray,
Jeremiah Green, Nancy Principeso, David Johnson, George Jackson
William Coak, Moses Long.

_Maryland_--Nancy Gust.

_Baltimore_--John Clark, Sally Johnson.

_Virginia_--Sally Hacker, Richard and John Johnson, Thomas
Stewart, Anthony Paine, Mary Burk, William Hacker, Polly Losours,
Betsy Guin, Lucy Brown.

_Africa_--Nancy Doras.[57]

The constitutions of nearly all the States, statutes, or public
sentiment drove the Negro from the ballot-box, excused him from the
militia, and excluded him from the courts. Although born on the soil,
a soldier in two wars, an industrious, law-abiding _person_, the
Negro, nevertheless, was not regarded as a member of political
society. He was taxed, but enjoyed no representation; was governed by
laws, and yet, had no voice in making the laws.

The doors of nearly all the schools of the entire North were shut in
his face; and the few separate schools accorded him were given
grudgingly. They were usually held in the lecture-room of some Colored
church edifice, or thrust off to one side in a portion of the city or
town toward which aristocratic ambition would never turn. These
schools were generally poorly equipped; and the teachers were either
Colored persons whose opportunities of securing an education had been
poor, or white persons whose mental qualifications would not encourage
them to make an honest living among their own race; there were noble
exceptions.

A deeply rooted prejudice shut the Negro out from the trades. He could
not acquire the art of setting type, civil engineering, building
machinery, house carpentering, or any of the trades. The schools of
medicine, law, and theology were not open to him; and even if he
secured admission into some gentleman's office, or instruction from
some divine, the future gave him no promise. The white wings of hope
were broken in an ineffectual attempt to move against the bi