;
reconstruction of the, 377-383;
provisional military government established, 379.

Connecticut, slave population, 1800, 2;
1810, 9;
1820, 22;
prejudice against Colored schools, 149;
school abolished by act of Legislature, 152, 153;
school-house mobbed, 157;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Convention of the people of color, 1831, report on the condition
of free Negroes in the United States, 62;
on the establishment of a college, 63;
provisional committee appointed in each city, 64;
conventional address, 65-68;
second convention, 1832, 68;
resolutions on colonization, 70;
conventional address, 75-78.

Cook, D. R., organizes company of Negro troops, 277.

Cook, Eliza Anne, establishes school for Colored children, 211.

Cook, Major John B., Negro troops commanded by, capture redoubt
at Petersburg, Va., 339.

Cook, Rev. John F., sketch of, 187-191;
mentioned, 206, 211, 212.

Coppin, Mrs. Fanny M. _See_ Jackson, Fanny M.

Cornish, Alexander, establishes school for Colored children, 209.

Costin, Louisa Parke, establishes school for Colored
children, 192, 193.

Costin, William, his death, 192;
sketch of, 193.

Coxe, R. S., emancipates slave, 210.

Crandall, Prudence, establishes a school in Conn., admits Colored
pupil, 149;
protest of the citizens, 150, 151;
receives additional Colored pupils, 152;
school abolished by act of the Legislature, 152, 153;
her arrest and trial, 153-156;
school-house mobbed, 156.

Cuff, Peter, representative of Salem, N. J., in the first conference
of the African M. E. Church, 452.

Cuffe, John and Paul, free Negroes, petition for relief from
taxation in Mass., 1780, 126, 127.

Cumberland, Department of the, Negro troops recruited for, 294.

Cumings, Mrs. Elizabeth, school of, mentioned, 471.

Dandridge, Ann, family of, 193.

Darnes, Mary A., address to the Attucks Guards of Cincinnati, 145.

Davis, Jefferson, speech in the U. S. Senate, on the right to hold
slaves, 102;
chosen president of the Confederate States, 233;
his message to the Confederate Government, 234;
views on President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, 271, 350;
proclamation outlawing Gen. Butler, 359;
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