increase of, 1800, 1;
slave population in United States, 1800, 1, 2;
the fugitive-slave law of 1793, source of persecution to the
free Colored people, 2;
growth of, in United States, 1810, 9;
President Monroe's message to Congress on the question of, 12;
resolutions in favor of restriction of, in the new States, 16;
anti-slavery societies formed, Act for the gradual abolition of,
in New Jersey, 20;
attitude of the Northern press on the question of, 21;
anti-slavery sentiments of the North, 22;
retrospection and reflection, 1825-1850, 31-36;
secured at the South, 31;
Jefferson predicts the abolition of, 33;
increase of, 33;
speeches against, in the Legislature of Virginia, 33-35;
evil effect upon society, 35;
the South in favor of, 36;
anti-slavery methods, 37-60;
anti-slavery newspapers established, 38, 39;
Buchanan's oration against, 1791, 38;
first anti-slavery society established in United States, 43;
O'Connell's speech against, 43;
Sumner's speech, 46;
the South entertains hope that, will become national, 98;
increase in the United States, 99, 100;
Congress has no authority to prohibit, Henry Clay's resolutions
in Congress for the adjustment of, does not exist by law in
the United States, 101;
Senator Bell's resolutions, Jefferson Davis's speech in
favor of, 102;
Calhoun's speech, 103-105;
President Pierce in favor of, 107;
ignorance favorable to, 148;
John Brown's speech against, 215;
speeches of William H. Seward against, 230, 231;
Lincoln's speech against, 230;
Alexander H. Stephens's speech in favor of, 235;
the extension of, the issue between the North and South, 236, 240;
Lincoln's views on, 237-239;
Rev. Justin D. Fulton's views on, 242, 243;
Gen. McClellan's views on, 249;
Greeley's letter to Lincoln, 253;
Lincoln's reply, 254;
struggle for the supremacy between the Union and, 259;
Lincoln's views on, 264-266;
resolutions of the Confederate Congress, 350, 351;
abolished in the U. S., 377;
the legal destruction of, and a constitutional prohibition, 419.

Slaves, number of, in the United States, 1800, 1, 2;
free Colored men sold as, fugitive-slave law of 1793, cause of
persecution to the Colored people, 2;
American ships prohibited from supplying, from United States