ed of, 79;
prejudice against admitting, into white societies, eloquence of
the, as orators, 81;
insurrections of, 82-92;
why they were kept in bondage, 82;
plot of the, in Virginia, 1800, 83;
in Charleston, S. C., 1822, 84;
insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 1831, 87-89;
the "Amistad" captives, 93-96;
Northern sympathy and Southern subterfuges, 1850-1860, 97-100;
schools broken up, pupils maltreated, 97;
the "Black Laws" of "Border States," 111-124;
Ohio laws against free, 111, 112;
compelled to show certificate of freedom, 112;
laws against kidnapping, 113;
not citizens, 114, 118;
denied the right to vote, 119, 122;
excluded from the militia service, schools established for
free, 119;
Act for the introduction of, into Indiana, 120;
excluded from giving testimony, 121, 123;
exempted from militia service, 122;
Act to prevent the immigration of free, into Illinois, 123;
restrictions and proscriptions in the Northern States, 124;
the Northern, 125-146;
number of free, in the slave and Northern States, 125;
petition for relief from taxation of free, in Mass., 1780, 126;
law preventing, from other States settling in Mass., 127;
notice to, warning them to leave Mass., 128;
list of, ordered to leave Mass., 128, 129;
rights and privileges restricted, 130-132;
educated by their own race, admitted to the bar, practice of
medicine, pulpit, authors, orators, 133;
prominent, 134, 135;
amount paid for their freedom, 134;
distinguished in the pulpit, 135;
report on the condition of, in Cincinnati, 1835, 136-138;
militia company of, 145;
emigrate to Liberia, overcome prejudice against the race, 146;
school laws, 1619-1860, 147-213;
education of, prohibited, 148, 149, 157, 158, 160, 163, 170,
178-181;
prejudice against the schools for, in Conn., 149;
resolutions against the establishing of schools for, in
Conn., 150;
school abolished, 152, 153;
school-house mobbed, 156, 159;
African School Association established, 157;
education of, advocated, 158, 159;
denied the right of suffrage, 159;
elective franchise and school privileges in Maine, 160;
schools established, 161, 162, 164, 168-178, 182-213;
first school established by, 162;
ordered to leave Missouri, 163;
plot for burning New Y