ported to be forfeited, 8;
slave population, 1810, 9;
premium offered to informers of illegally imported Africans
seized within the, circular-letter of the Navy Department
to naval officers in regard to the importation of slaves, 10;
President Monroe's message to Congress on the question of
slavery, 12;
appoint agents to direct the return of slaves to Africa, 13;
resolutions in favor of restriction of slavery in the new
States, 16;
slave population, 1820, 22;
Negroes serve in the War of 1812, 23-27;
Gen. Jackson's proclamation calling for Negro troops, 25;
terms of peace by the Commissioners of Ghent, 27;
increase of the slave population, 33;
first anti-slavery society established, 43;
number of anti-slavery societies in, 1836, 44;
Free Soil party organized, 46;
comments of the press on the proposed steam-ship line between
Africa and, 55-58;
condition of the free Negroes in, 62, 67;
slave population, 1830, 1840, 99,
1850, 100;
Franklin Pierce elected President, 107;
number of fugitive and manumitted slaves, 1850, 146;
increase of slaves, 228;
slave population, 1860, value of slave labor products, 229;
six States secede from, 232;
Abraham Lincoln elected President, 239;
slavery abolished, 377;
Negro population, 1790-1880, 417;
the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, 419;
ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 420-422;
Southern election methods and Northern sympathy, 517;
decline of the Republican party, 518;
Southern war claims, 519;
the presidential campaign of 1876, 519, 520;
the electoral count in Congress, 521;
President Hayes's Southern policy, a failure, 522-524.

United States Army, Negro troops serve in the War of 1812, 23-27;
Negroes arrested, 244;
orders in regard to fugitive slaves in, 245, 248, 249;
Negroes ordered from, 250;
Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating slaves, 255;
Gen. Hunter's proclamation, 257;
fortifications and earthworks built by Negroes, 262;
condition of, 1862, 264;
opposed to President Lincoln's proclamation, 269;
Negroes as soldiers, 276-309;
first regiment of Negroes organized, 278;
Negro troops organized, fugitive slaves offer their
services, 285, 287;
order for the enlistment of Negro troops, 290;
number of Negroes in, 297, 29