to
foreign markets, 3;
importation of, prohibited, 8;
illegally imported to be forfeited, 8;
number of, in United States, 1810, 9;
circular-letter of the United States Navy Department in regard
to the importation of, premium to informer for imported,
seized in United States, 10;
number of, in United States, 1820, 22;
the right to hold, questioned, 32;
increase of, 33;
Quakers of Maryland and Delaware, emancipate their, 35;
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 38;
from Baltimore, sent to New Orleans to be sold, 40;
Washington emancipates, 43;
insurrections of, 82-92;
why kept in bondage, 82;
plot of the, in Virginia, 1800, 83;
insurrection in Southampton County, Va., 1831, 87-89;
the "Amistad" captives, 93-96;
number of, in United States, 1830, 1840, 99;
Jefferson Davis's speech on the right to hold, 102;
the "Dred Scott" case, 114-119;
law in regard to executions against the time of service
of, 119, 121;
Act for the introduction of, into Indiana, 120;
persons emancipating, in Ill. required to give bonds, 122;
fugitive, seek refuge in Canada, 125;
rendition of fugitive, by the army, 244;
failure of attempts to secure fugitive, from the army, 245, 246;
orders in regard to harboring fugitive, in the army, 248, 249;
contraband of war, 250;
Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating, in Missouri, 255;
disapproved by President Lincoln, 256;
Gen. Hunter's proclamation, 257;
rescinded, 258;
order to impress, to build fortifications for Confederate
States, 261;
emancipation proclamations, 261-275;
Secretary Seward's letter in regard to, 263;
President Lincoln's proclamation, 267-269;
second proclamation, 272;
enlist in the service of the Union, 281;
fugitive, offer their services in the army, 285, 287;
Judge Advocate Holt's letter on the enlistment of, 307;
the U. S. Government justified in the employment of, as
soldiers, 310;
at the battle of Port Hudson, 316, Milliken's Bend, 326;
bravery at battle of Nashville, Tenn., 342;
resolutions of the Confederate Congress against the military
employment of, by the U. S. Government, 350, 351;
Confederate army refuse to exchange captured, 357, 358;
results of emancipation, 384-418;
character of the Southern, 414;
contributors to the erect