avor of excluding slavery north and west
of Missouri, 17.

Thomas, Lorenzo, Adjt.-Gen., U. S. Army, speech in favor of
enlisting Negroes, 289;
order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
letter to Henry Wilson on the efficiency of Negro soldiers, 344.

Thomas, Brig.-Gen. Samuel, report on the freedmen, 400, 401.

Thompson, Jacob, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow
massacre, 364.

Thompson, Margaret, establishes school for Colored children, 206, 207.

Townsend, E. D., Assistant Adj.-Gen., U. S. Army, order for the
enlistment of Negro troops, 291;
in reference to applicants for admission to the free military
school, 296.

Travis, Hark, his connection with the Negro insurrection in
Southampton County, Va., 87, 88.

Trenton, N. J., opposed to the increase of slavery, 16;
anti-slavery society formed, 20.

Trinity Church, New York City, Negro slaves, communicants of, 164.

Turner, Benjamin, mentioned, 85;
killed by Negro mob, 88, 89.

Turner, H. M., bishop of the African M. E. Church, 464.

Turner, Nathaniel, Negro prophet, his birth and parentage, becomes
preacher, description of his person, 85;
mode of life, believes he is a prophet, his superstition,
denounces conjuring and fortune-telling, regarded with
reverence by the Negroes, acknowledged leader among the
slaves, hired out as a slave, 86;
claims to have seen visions, organizes plot for the uprising of
the slaves, address to his fellow-conspirators, 87;
leads the attack in Southampton County, Va., his confession of
the plot, 88;
trial and execution, remarkable prophecy of, 90;
his character, 91.

Tyler, Col. Erastus B., address to the people of Virginia,
promising the return of fugitive slaves, 244.

Underground Railroad Organization, the, 58;
its efficiency in freeing slaves, 59;
mentioned, 82.

Underwood, J. R., Gen. Buell's letter to, on the return of fugitive
slaves to their masters, 248.

Union League Club, N. Y. City, raise Negro regiments, 292.

Union Seminary, Washington, D. C., 189.

United States, slave population, 1800, 1, 2;
increase of slavery, 1;
slave-trade secretly carried on, 2;
American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from, to foreign
markets, 3;
importation of slaves prohibited, 8;
slaves illegally im