which Dr. Woodson
incorporated into the dissertation before publishing it. The writer
was aided too by suggestions and facts obtained from Mr. W.T. Andrews,
the editor of the _Baltimore Herald_, Professor Kelly Miller, and Mr.
A. Phillips Randolph, of New York City.

[2] _The Journal of Negro History_, Vol. V, pp. 110-111.

[3] Eckenrode, _Political History of Virginia during Reconstruction_,
pp. 127, 128, and Thompson, _Reconstruction in Georgia_, p. 400.

[4] Hamilton, _Reconstruction in North Carolina_, p. 607.

[5] Burgess, _Reconstruction and the Constitution_, p. 218.

[6] _The Journal of Negro History_, Vol. V, pp. 110-111.

[7] This statement is based on information obtained from numerous
participants in the Reconstruction of the Southern States. Among these
are John R. Lynch, Thomas E. Miller, T. T. Allain, and P. B. S.
Pinchback.

[8] This is the testimony of white persons obtained by the writer.

[9] These facts were obtained through Mr. W. T. Andrews who lived in
South Carolina.

[10] Simmons, _Men of Mark_, pp. 113, 829, 948, 1023; Woodson, _A
Century of Negro Migration_, pp. 124-125.

[11] _Report of Joint Committee to Investigate the Treasurer's Office,
State of Louisiana, to the General Assembly, 1877_, pp. 7-12.
_Majority Report; Journal of Negro History_, Vol. II, pp. 77-78.

[12] Lynch, _Facts of Reconstruction_, ch. III. _Journal of Negro
History_, Vol. II, p. 30.

[13] Garner, _Reconstruction in Mississippi_; Woodson, _The Education
of the Negro Prior to 1861_, p. 17.

[14] Stanwood, _A History of Presidential Elections_, 260.

[15] _Ibid._, 291.

[16] _Ibid._, 287.

[17] Stanwood, _A History of Presidential Elections_, 310.

[18] _Ibid._, 316, 317, 318.

[19] _Ibid._, 322.

[20] Stanwood, _A History of Presidential Elections_, 356, 359.

[21] _Ibid._, 387.

[22] _Ibid._, 393, 396.

[23] Stanwood, _A History of Presidential Elections_, 432.

[24] Thorpe, _Federal and State Constitutions_; Paxson, _The New
Nation_, p. 199.

[25] Stanwood, _A History of Presidential Elections_, pp. 385-386;
Paxson, _The New Nation_, p. 128.

[26] Stanwood, _A History of Presidential Elections_, p. 447.

HENRY BIBB, A COLONIZER

The underground railroad has been characterized by one historian of
the Negro race as a "safety valve to the institution of slavery" since
it tended to remove from the slave States those Negroes whose special
abilities and leadership might have invol