memorial against the increase of slavery, 16.

Quinn, Rev. William Paul, minister of the African M. E. Church, 452.

Randolph, John, report in Congress, against the modification of the
ordinance of 1787, in Indiana Territory, 4.

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, speech against slavery in the
Legislature of Virginia, 33.

Rankin, Thomas, president of the first American Methodist
conference, 466.

Rankin _vs._ Lydia, case of, mentioned, 120.

Ray, John F., his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow
massacre, 373.

Reconstruction, 1865-1875, 377-383.

Reeder, Gov. Andrew II., threatened by mob, leaves Kansas, 216.

Rees, Sergt. Henry, fires the mine at the siege of Petersburg,
Va., 341.

Republican party, decline of the, 518;
the presidential campaign of 1876, 519, 520.

Revels, Hiram R., succeeds Jefferson Davis in the U. S. Senate, 423.

Rhode Island, slave population, 1800, 2,
1810, 9,
1820, 22;
grants equal privileges to Negroes, 178;
number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Richardson, Mrs. Henry, raises money for the purchase of the
freedom of Frederick Douglass, 431.

Richmond, Va., Negro plot, 1800, 83;
Negroes armed for the defence of, 278;
schools for the education of Negroes, 394-396.

"Richmond Enquirer" (The), mentioned, 89;
on the Negro insurrection of 1831, 90, 92.

"Richmond Examiner" (The), on the treatment of captured Negro
soldiers, 354, 355.

Roberts, Thomas Wright, bishop of the M. E. Church, 469.

Rodney, Caesar, report in favor of the modification of the ordinance
of 1787 in Indiana Territory, 4.

Roman Catholic school for Colored people, 194, 212.

Ruffner, W. H., superintendent of public instruction,
commended, 393;
his report, 395.

Ruiz, Jose, passenger on the Spanish slaver "Amistad," 93;
charged with piracy, 94.

Russell, Pero, free Negro, petitions for relief from taxation in
Mass., 1780, 126.

Russworm, John B., teacher in the African school, Boston, Governor
of Cape Palmas, Liberia, 162.

St. Frances Academy for Colored girls, founded, 160.

St. Mary's, Md., slaves imported to, 10.

Satchell, Rev. Charles, Colored Baptist minister, 476.

Saunders, George Nicholas, his connection with the proposed
stea