;
Act to incorporate the Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust
Company, 403, amended, 407;
appoint commissioners to close up the affairs of the bank, 411;
authorized to enforce the thirteenth amendment, 419;
recommends the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 420;
action on the electoral count of 1876, 521.

United States Navy, Negroes serve in the, 28-30; captures the
Spanish slaver "Amistad," 64.

Utah, slave population in the territory of, 100.

Vallandingham, C. C., speech on the character of John Brown, 225.

Vanlomen, Rev. Father, preceptor of Catholic seminary for Colored
girls, 194.

Vermont, number of Negro troops furnished by, 299;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, 422.

Vesey, Denmark, leader of the Negro plot in Charleston, S. C.,
1822, 84.

Vesey, Rev. William, rector of Trinity Church, New York, 164;
his death, 165.

Vicksburg, Miss., fortifications built by Negroes, 262;
fort at, garrisoned by Negro troops, 345.

Virginia, slave population, 1800, 2, 1810, 9, 1820, 22;
increased, anti-slavery speeches in the Legislature, 33-35;
Negro plot, 1800, 83;
insurrection, 1831, 87-89;
slave population, 1830, 99, 1840, 1850, 100;
education of Negroes prohibited, 180, 181;
Negro school population, 387;
comparative statistics of education, 388;
institutions for instruction of Negroes, 392, 394, 395;
ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the
U. S., 422.

Wade, Benjamin F., one of the committee of investigation of the
Fort Pillow massacre, 361.

Walls, James, his testimony in regard to the Fort Pillow
massacre, 366.

War of 1812, Negro troops serve in the, 23-27.

War of 1861, definition of the war issue, 228;
States secede from the Union, 232;
organization and Constitution of the Confederate States, 232, 233;
extension of slavery the issue, 240;
a white man's war, first call for troops, 241;
rendition of fugitive slaves by the army, 244;
order for the return of fugitive slaves revoked, proclamations
protecting slave property, 246-248;
orders in regard to harboring fugitive slaves in the army, 248, 249;
slaves contraband of war, 250;
Gen. Fremont's proclamation emancipating slaves in Missouri, 255;
President Lincoln's emancipation proclamati