Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (67 page)

American Colonization Society,
91
,
157
,
202
,
230

American Freedmen’s Friend Society,
264

American Seamen’s Protective Union Association,
238

Anderson, Mary,
350

Andrew, John A.,
265

Andrews, Charles

and African Dorcas Society,
75

dismissal of,
78
,
91–
92,
140

The History of the New-York African Free Schools
,
68

influence of,
84
,
91
,
92
,
141
,
146
,
219

and Mulberry Street School,
76–
78,
81
,
84–
88,
89–
92

and school fairs,
89–
91

and whipping,
78

Andrews, Julia,
89

Appo, Helen,
350

Aspinwall, William,
182

Astor, John Jacob,
12
,
182

Aymar, James,
61

Barbauld, Anna,
171

Barber, Delos,
267
,
268

Barjona, Elizabeth,
237

Bayard family,
49
,
50–
51,
256

Beecher, Henry Ward,
197
,
229
,
232
,
296
,
387–
388

Beecher, James,
267–
269,
271

Bell, Philip,
78
,
193

and African Society for Mutual Relief,
389

and
Colored American
,
117
,
122
,
138

as Cosmopolite,
217–
219

death of,
388

in later years,
388–
389

and National Lincoln Monument Association,
275

and New York Select Academy,
141

Bennett, James Gordon,
180
,
203
,
240

Bérard, Joseph Pierre,
36

Bérard family,
36
,
154

Bethel Literary Association,
346–
348

Bishop, Rev. Hutchins C.,
337
,
337
,
343

black exceptionalism,
203

Blaine, James,
365

Bleecker, Elizabeth,
61

Bloodgood, Abraham,
154
,
180

Bobo, William,
174
,
190

Bottome, Margaret,
359–
360

Bowers, Elizabeth West,
170

Bragg, George, Jr.,
335

Brooklyn, N.Y.,
284–
286

abortion case,
297–
302

Board of Education,
4
,
367–
373

Carrville,
286

Fort Greene,
286

industries,
284–
285,
312

Lorillard factory riot,
292–
295,
296
,
302

map,
285
population, free black,
29
,
284
,
286
,
312

population, immigrant,
24
,
286
,
321–
322

population, total,
29
,
284
,
286
,
321

racial unrest,
295–
297

slavery,
284

Weeksville,
286
,
296
,
297
,
372

Williamsburgh,
156
,
253
,
284
,
285
,
287
,
290–
292,
297
,
312

Brooklyn Bridge, building of,
311

Brooklyn Citizen
,
141

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
,
27
,
35
,
207–
208,
292–
293,
297
,
302–
303,
360

Brooklyn Daily Times
,
293
,
296

Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People,
360

Brooklyn Literary Union,
27
,
348–
349,
353

Brooklyn News
,
303

Brown, Hallie Quinn,
355

Brown, John (school principal),
141

Brown, John (white abolitionist),
387
,
388

Brown, William,
176
,
177

Buchanan, James,
259

Burke, E. A.,
361–
362

Burns, John,
79

Burns, Mary,
298–
302

Burr, Aaron,
40
,
168

Butler, Adelaide “Aunt Delia,”
232

Cabanel, Alexandre,
375
,
376

Canby, General Edward,
251
,
255

Cassey, Amy Matilda,
171
,
172

Cassey, Joseph,
171

Cesnola, Luigi,
377–
378,
380

Chandler, Frederick Charles,
332

Chapin, Alfred C.,
366
,
372
,
391

Chatham Street Chapel,
99–
100,
165
,
235

Choate, Joseph,
377

citizenship, quest for,
7
,
121
,
124
,
129
,
199
,
221–
222,
229–
232,
237
,
263
,
264
,
279
,
347
,
363
,
373

Civil War, U.S.

beginning of,
223–
224,
229
,
231–
232

black regiments in,
261–
263,
264
,

end of,
274

Fifty-fourth Massachusetts,
265–
267

Thirty-fifth Regiment, United States Colored Troops,
267–
272

Clarke, Edward,
166

Clarke, Mary Cowden,
Complete Concor-dance to Shakespere
,
382
,
383

class, within black community,
138–
139,
319–
325

Clay, Henry,
200
,
204

Cleveland, Grover,
365
,
366

Close, George,
330
,
332
,
333

Coddington, Jonathan,
184

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
88

Collect Street,
37–
44

disease,
57–
59

distance and proximity,
60–
62

filth,
55–
57

renamed Centre Street,
37
,
57

College of Pharmacy of the City of New York,
161–
165,
329–
330,
331

Alumni Association,
329–
330,
332
,
333

Colored American
,
11
,
27
,
29
,
105
,
111
,
115
,
117
,
119–
120,
122–
123,
125
,
127
,
138
,
141
,
147
,
157
,
179
,
230

Colored Orphan Asylum,
157–
158,
191
,
232–
235,
233
,
251
,
263

Colored People’s National Monument,
275–
276,
276

Colored Sailors’ Home,
181
,
182–
183,
237–
238,
239
,
240

Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People,
255–
258

Communipaw (pseudonym),
217
,
218
,
219–
222,
381

Constitution, U.S.

Fifteenth Amendment,
279
,
363
,
387

Fourteenth Amendment,
279

Thirteenth Amendment,
274
,
279

Conventions of Colored Men,
125
,
126
,
273–
274

Albany Convention,
125

Buffalo Convention,
200

New York County Convention,
126

Syracuse Convention,
273–
274

Cooper, James Fenimore,
108

Cooper, Peter,
193
,
259

Coppin, Fannie Jackson,
349

Cornish, Samuel,
65

and
Colored American
,
117
,
122
,
138

and community institutions,
133
,
136–
137,
141
,
205

and
Freedom’s Journal
,
68
,
86

Cosmopolite (pseudonym),
217–
219,
381

Costello, James,
227

Courier and Enquirer
,
180

Crummell, Alexander,
12
,
13
,
14
,
28
,
39
,
167

Africa and America
,
387

and Cambridge University,
202

Eulogium
,
97
,
106
,
107

eulogy for Philip White,
4
,
141
,
142–
143,
391
,
392

family background of,
38–
40

and General Theological Seminary,
111–
112,
201–
202,
209

grave of,
19
,
385

Guignon’s obituary by,
5
,
6
,
24
,
35
,
66
,
79–
80,
168
,
305
,
328
,
390

in Liberia,
202
,
230

and memorial to John Peterson,
389

in the ministry,
85
,
114
,
166
,
202
,
209–
210

on Negro nationality,
201–
203,
230
,
319–
320

and New York Select Academy,
141

and Noyes Academy,
105–
106

and Oneida Institute,
107
,
201–
202

and St. Philip’s,
168
,
209–
210,
334