of, owned by Negroes, 414;
succeeded in the U. S. Senate by a Negro, 423.

Davis, John, Negro sailor, his bravery and death, 30.

Deep Bottom, Va., Negro troops engage in the battle of, 335.

De Grasse, John T., first Colored member of the Mass. Medical
Society, 133;
sketch of, 134.

Delaware, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9;
in favor of restriction of slavery, 16;
slave population, 1820, 22;
Quakers emancipate their slaves, 35;
slave population, 1830, 1840, 99,
1850, 100;
tax on slaves, added to the school fund for the education of white
children, 157;
order for the enlistment of Negroes, 291;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392.

Deloach, C., organizes company of Negro troops, 277.

Democratic Party, convention of, 1853, nominates Franklin Pierce
for the Presidency, defines its position on the slavery
question, 106.

De Mortie, Louis, her birth, education, public reader, secures
funds for the erection of an asylum for Colored orphans, her
death, 449.

De Peyster, Maj.-Gen. J. Watts, advocates the employment of Negroes
as soldiers, 276.

Dickerson, William F., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.

District of Columbia, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9;
1820, 22;
petition of Garrison for the abolition of slavery in, 39;
slave population, 1830, 1840, 99;
1850, 100;
schools for the education of the Negro population, 182-213;
Lincoln in favor of the abolishing of slavery in the, 237;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
Negro school population, 1871, 1876, 387;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393.

Dix, Maj.-Gen. John A., proclamation protecting slave property, 246.

Dixon, Archibald, introduces bill in Congress for the repeal of the
Missouri compromise, 108.

Dodge, Henry, introduces bill in Congress to organize the territory
of Nebraska, 107.

Douglass, Frederick, his book "My Bondage, and My Freedom," 59;
mentioned, 79, 81;
delivers address on the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment, 422;
birth, enslavement, 424;
escapes to the North, marries, life as a freeman, 425;
becomes an anti-slavery orator,