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Pollard, N.W., agent of the Government of Trinidad, sought Negroes in the United States,

Portsmouth, friends of fugitives of,

Portsmouth, Ohio, mob of, drives Negroes out; progressive Negroes of,

Prairie du Rocher, slaves of,

Press comments on sending Negroes to Africa,

Puritans,not much interested in the Negro,

Quakers,promoted the movement of the blacks to Western territory;in the mountains assisted fugitives,

Race prejudice,the effects of;among laboring classes,

Randolph, John,a colonizationist;sought to settle his slaves in Mercer County, Ohio,

Reaction against the Negro,

Reconstruction,promoted to an extent by Negro natives of North,

Redpath, James,interest of, in colonization,

Refugees assembled in camps;in West;in Washington;in South;exodus of, to the North;fear that they would overrun the North;development of;vagrancy at close of war,

Renault, Philip Francis,imported slaves,

Resolutions of the Vicksburg Convention bearing on the exodus toKansas,

Rhode Island,exterminated slavery,

Richards, Benjamin,a wealthy Negro of Pittsburgh,

Richard, Fannie M.,a successful teacher in Detroit,

Riley, William H.,a well-to-do bootmaker,

Ringold, Thomas,advertisement of, for a slave in the West,

Rochester,friends of fugitives in,

Saint John, Governor,aid of, to the Negroes in Kansas,

Sandy Lake,Negro settlement in,

Saunders of Cabell County, Virginia,sent manumitted slaves to Cass County, Michigan,

Saxton, General Rufus,plan for handling refugees in South Carolina,

Scotch-Irish Presbyterians,favorable to fugitives,

Scott, Henry,owner of a pickling business,

Scroggs, Wm. O.,referred to as authority on interstate migration,

Segregation,a cause of migration,

Shelby County, Ohio,Negroes in,

Sierra Leone,Negroes of, settled in Jamaica,

Simmons, W.J.,returned from Pennsylvania to Kentucky,

Singleton, Moses,leader of the exodus from Kansas,

Sixth Article of Ordinance of 1787,

Slave Code in Louisiana,

Slavery in the Northwest; slavery in Indiana; slavery of whites,

Slaves,mingled freely with their masters in early West,

Smith, Gerrit,effort to colonize Negroes in New York,

Smith, Stephen,a lumber merchant,

South Carolina,slavery considered profitable there,

South,change of attitude of, toward the Negro;drastic laws against vagrancy,

Southern States divided on the Negro,

Spears, Noah,sent his manumitted slaves to Greene County, Ohio,

Starr, Frederick,comment of, on the refugees,

Steubenville,successful Negroes of,

Still, William,a coal merchant,

St. Philippe,slaves of,

Success of Negro migrants,

Suffrage of the Negroes in the colonies,

Tappan, Arthur,attacked by New York mob,

Tappan, Lewis,attacked by New York mob,

Terrorism,a cause of migration,

Texas,drain of laborers to;proposed colony of Negroes there,

Thomas, General,opened farms for refugees,

Thompson, A.V.,a tailor,

Thompson, C.M.,comment on freedmen's vagrancy,

Topp, W.H.,a merchant tailor,

Trades unions,attitude of, toward Negro labor,

Trinidad,the exodus of Negroes to;Negroes from Philadelphia settled there,

Turner, Bishop H.M.,interested in sending Negroes to Africa,

Upper and Lower Camps of Brown County, Ohio,Negroes of,

Upper Louisiana,conditions of;conditions of slaves in,

Unrest of the Negroes in the South after Reconstruction;causes of;credit system a cause;land system a cause;further unrest of intelligent Negroes,

Utica,mob of, attacked anti-slavery leaders,

Vagrancy of Negroes after emancipation;drastic legislation against,

Vermont,exterminated slavery,

Vicksburg,Convention of, to stop the Exodus,

Viner, M.,mentioned slave settlements in West,

Virginia,disfranchisement of Negroes in;Quakers of, promoting the migration of the Negroes;reaction in;refugees in,

Vorhees, Senator D.W.,offered a resolution in Senate inquiring into the exodus to Kansas,

Washington, Judge Bushrod,a colonizationist,

Washington, D.C., refugees in; the migration of Negro politicians to,

Wattles, Augustus,settled with Negroes in Mercer County, Ohio,

Watts,steam engine and the industrial revolution,

Wayne County, Indiana,freedmen settled in,

Webb, William,interest of, in colonization,

Wenyam, James,ran away to the West,

West Indies,attractive to free Negroes,

West Virginia,exodus of Negroes to,

White, David,led a company of Negroes to the Northwest,

White, J.T.,left Indiana to enter politics in Arkansas,

Whites of South refused to work,

Whitfield, James M., interest of, in colonization,

Whitney's cotton gin and the industrial revolution,

Wickham, executor of Samuel Gist, settled Gist's Negroes in Ohio,

Wilberforce University established at a slave settlement,

Wilcox, Samuel T.,a merchant of Cincinnati,

Yankees,comment of, on Negro labor,

York,Negroes of;trouble with the Negroes of,

End of Project Gutenberg's A Century of Negro Migration, by Carter G. Woodson


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