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Authors: Carla L. Peterson
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (66 page)
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IndexAlumni Association Annual Reports, 1872–1880, 1881–1891; Members’ Minutes, 1829–1886; Board of Trustees Minutes, 1829–1845.
Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations
Addams, Jane,
357
Africa
and emotional ties to,
43–
44
African burial customs,
53
African Burial Ground Memorial Site,
12
African Catechetical Institution,
45–
46
African Society for Mutual Relief,
29
,
66
,
68–
69,
72
,
167
,
179
,
227
,
387
Afro-American League,
373–
374
Alexander, Mary,
228
Allen, J. Q.,
318
A.M.E. Church Review
,
362
American Anti-Slavery Society,
99
,
102
,
111
,
114
,
147
,
197–
198,
200