roes in the U. S. Navy, 29.

Child, Adventur, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in
Mass., 1780, 126.

"Choctaw," gun-boat, at the battle of Milliken's Bend, 326.

Cincinnati, Ohio, mob destroys newspaper, 51;
report on the condition of the Colored people, 1835, 136-138;
prominent Colored men of, 138-143;
home for Colored orphans established, 144;
the Attucks Guards organized, 145;
Colored schools established, 170-172.

Cinquez, Joseph, son of an African prince, one of the "Amistad"
captives, leads in the capture of the ship, 93;
tour through the United States, describes his capture, 94;
returns to Africa, 96.

Clarkson, Mathew, mentioned, 166.

Clay, Cascius M., member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, 50;
mentioned, 51.

Clay, Henry, mentioned, 20;
favors colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, 52;
resolutions in Congress for the adjustment of the slavery
question, 101.

Cleaveland, C. F., counsel for the prosecution in the trial of
Prudence Crandall, 156.

Coggeshall, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation
in Mass., 1780, 126.

Cogswell, James, mentioned, 166.

Coke, Rev. Thomas, ordained bishop of the Methodist societies in
America, 465.

Coker, Daniel, representative of Baltimore in the first conference
of the African M. E. Church, 452.

Colgan, Rev. Thomas, teaches Negro slaves in New York, 165.

Colonization Anti-Slavery Society, objects of the, 51.

Colorado, number of Negro troops furnished by, 300.

Columbian Institute, Washington, D. C., 186.

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

Confederate States, organized, 232;
list of delegates to the convention, 232, 233;
Jefferson Davis chosen President, Alexander H. Stephens,
Vice-President, Constitution adopted, 233;
impress Negroes to build fortifications, 261;
effect of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, 271;
Negroes in the service of the, 277;
resolutions of their Congress against the military employment of
Negroes by the U. S., 350, 351;
white officers commanding Negro troops against the, and Negroes
captured in arms against the, to be executed, the first to
employ Negro soldiers, 352;
refuse to exchange Negro prisoners, 355-357;
proclamation of Jefferson Davis outlawing Gen. Butler, 358