e Race.--The American Negro will civilize
Africa.--America will establish Steamship Communication with the
Dark Continent.--Africa will yet be composed of States, and
"Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her Hands unto God." 544

HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA.

Part 4.

_CONSERVATIVE ERA--NEGROES IN THE ARMY AND NAVY._

CHAPTER I.

RESTRICTION AND EXTENSION.

1800-1825.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.--SLAVE POPULATION OF
1800.--MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO CONGRESS CALLING ATTENTION TO THE
SLAVE-TRADE TO THE COAST OF GUINEA.--GEORGIA CEDES THE TERRITORY
LYING WEST OF HER TO BECOME A STATE.--OHIO ADOPTS A STATE
CONSTITUTION.--WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF THE
TERRITORY OF INDIANA.--AN ACT OF CONGRESS PROHIBITING THE
IMPORTATION OF SLAVES INTO THE UNITED STATES OR
TERRITORIES.--SLAVE POPULATION OF 1810.--MISSISSIPPI APPLIES FOR
ADMISSION INTO THE UNION WITH A SLAVE CONSTITUTION.--CONGRESS
BESIEGED BY MEMORIALS URGING MORE SPECIFIC LEGISLATION AGAINST
THE SLAVE-TRADE.--PREMIUM OFFERED TO THE INFORMER OF EVERY
ILLEGALLY IMPORTED AFRICAN SEIZED WITHIN THE UNITED
STATES.--CIRCULAR LETTERS SENT TO THE NAVAL OFFICERS ON THE
SEACOAST OF THE SLAVE-HOLDING STATES.--PRESIDENT MONROE'S MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS ON THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY.--PETITION PRESENTED BY
THE MISSOURI DELEGATES FOR THE ADMISSION OF THAT STATE INTO THE
UNION.--THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARKANSAS TERRITORY.--RESOLUTIONS
PASSED FOR THE RESTRICTION OF SLAVERY IN NEW STATES.--THE
MISSOURI CONTROVERSY.--THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY
SOCIETIES.--AN ACT FOR THE GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN NEW
JERSEY.--ITS PROVISIONS.--THE ATTITUDE OF THE NORTHERN PRESS ON
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.--SLAVE POPULATION OF 1820.--ANTI-SLAVERY
SENTIMENT AT THE NORTH.

The nineteenth century opened auspiciously for the cause of the Negro.
Although slavery had ceased to exist in Massachusetts and Vermont, the
census of 1800 showed that the slave population in the other States
was steadily on the increase. In the total population of 5,305,925,
there were 893,041 slaves. The subjoined table exhibits the number of
slaves in each of the slave-holding States in the year 1800.

CENSUS OF 1800--SLAVE POPULATION.

District of Columbia 3,244
Connecticut 951
Delaware