groes, 382;
Negro population in excess of the white, 386;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for the instruction of Negroes, 392, 393;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Lovejoy, E. P., member of the aggressive anti-slavery party, 50;
killed by a mob, 51.

Lundy, Benjamin, earliest advocate of the abolition of slavery in
the United States, establishes anti-slavery newspaper, 1821, 38;
his sacrifices and work in the cause of emancipation, 38, 39;
visits William Lloyd Garrison, favors gradual emancipation, 40;
colonization of manumitted slaves, 51;
mentioned, 63, 73.

McClellan, Maj.-Gen, George B., views on slavery, 249;
Secretary Seward's letter to, in regard to fugitive slaves, 263.

McCoy, Benjamin M., one of the founders of Colored Sunday-school at
Washington, D. C., 187;
takes charge of public Colored school in Pa., 189;
school for Colored children, 206.

McCrady, John, chief engineer of Georgia, ordered to impress Negroes
to build fortifications, 261.

McLeod, John, in favor of the education of the Colored people, 186.

Madden, Rev. Samuel, a Colored Baptist minister, 476.

Madison, James, opposed to slavery, 33;
president of the American Colonization Society, 52.

Maine, bill for the admission of, into the Union, 16,
admitted, 18;
equal school privileges granted to Negroes, 160;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Malcom, Rev. Howard, favors the colonization of free Negroes at
Liberia, 52.

Mallory, Col., fugitive slaves of, declared contraband of war, 250.

Mann, Horace, favors the colonization of free Negroes at Liberia, 52.

Marechal, Rev. Ambrose, in favor of the education of the
Negroes, 161.

Marsh, Jacob, representative of Attleborough, Pa., in the first
conference of the African M. E. Church, 452.

Maryland, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9,
1820, 22;
Quakers emancipate their slaves, 35;
slave population, 1830, 1840, 99,
1850, 100;
Negroes excluded from the schools, St. Frances Academy
founded, 160;
the Wells school established, 161;
order for the enlistment of Negroes, 290;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
comparative statistic