Mott, Lydia P., establishes a home for Colored orphans, 144.
Murfreesboro, Tenn., captured Negro soldiers massacred at, 353.
Murray, John, Jr., mentioned, 166.
Muse, Lindsay, one of the founders of Colored Sunday-school at
Washington, D. C., 186.
Mussey, Captain R. D., superintends the recruiting of Negro
troops, 294.
Nantucket, Mass., anti-slavery convention at, 425.
Nashville, Tenn., Negroes in the Confederate service, 277;
Negro troops recruited, 294;
engaged in the battle of, 342.
Natchez, Miss., fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.
National anti-slavery convention, held in Phila., 1833, 44.
Neau, Elias, establishes a school for Negro slaves, in New
York, 1704;
pupils accused of being concerned in the Negro plot, his life
threatened, 164;
his death, 165.
Nebraska, bill introduced in Congress, to organize the territory
of, 107, 110;
number of troops furnished by, 300;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.
Negroes, free, sold as slaves, 2;
premium to informer of illegally imported, seized in the
United States, 10;
imported to St. Mary's, 10;
to be returned to Africa, 12;
serve in the War of 1812, 23-27;
Gen. Jackson's proclamation calling for Negro troops, 25;
Gen. Livingston's address, 26;
rated as chattel property, their valor in war secures them
immunity in peace, at the battle of New Orleans, 27;
in the United States Navy, 28-30; at Fort Mackinac, 1814, 28;
their treatment as sailors, Captain Perry's letter to Commodore
Chauncey, complaining of the men sent him, 28;
Commodore Chauncey's reply, 29;
at the battle of Lake Erie, represented in the picture of Perry's
victory on Lake Erie, letter of Nathaniel Shaler commending
the bravery of the sailors under his command, 30;
military services, 32;
proposed colony of free, at Liberia, 51, 54, 56;
authors of anti-slavery literature, 59;
anti-slavery efforts of free, 61-81;
conventions of the people of color, 61-79;
condition of free, in United States, 62, 67;
proposed college for, 63;
settle in Canada, 66, 71, 73;
opposed to colonization in Liberia and Hayti, 70;
leave Ohio, for Canada, 71, 76;
colonization of Upper Canada, opposed, 72;
dissolution of anti-slavery societies compos
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