Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (72 page)

Ray, Peter Williams,
362

and abortion case,
297–
302

and black elite,
263
,
288
,
326

in Brooklyn,
284
,
287–
290,
295

and Freemasonry,
289
,
305

and Kings County Medical Society,
302–
305

as medical doctor,
166
,
287
,
292
,
297–
305

obituary of,
328

and Republican Party,
363
,
366

and St. Philip’s,
334
,
337
,
343

and voting rights,
273
,
288–
289

Ray, Samuel,
156
,
287

Reason, Charles L.,
13
,
28
,
86
,
123
,
125
,
145
,
168
,
171
,
172
,
209
,
316

and black elite,
166

and community institutions,
129
,
133
,
140
,
264
,
317
,
346–
347

and General Theological Seminary,
108
,
112

political activism of,
185
,
196
,
230
,
289
,
363

school years of,
5
,
7
,
81

as teacher,
144–
146,
319
,
350–
351

Reason, Clorice Esteve,
170

Reason, Eliver,
5

Reason, Patrick,
28
,
104
,
123
,
125
,
168
,
171
,
172

as artist,
70
,
79
,
80
,
103
,
105
,
141
,
146
,
187
,
258
,
347
,
362

and black elite,
166

and community institutions,
133
,
205

as Freemason,
289

school years of,
5
,
7
,
79

Reconstruction

civil rights legislation,
279
,
280

end of,
345

Reid, Laurence,
162

remembering

archives,
19–
23

author’s quest,
18–
19

family,
14–
17

and forgetting,
10–
12,
24

friendship albums,
170–
172

and history,
12–
14,
19–
23

preserving memories,
386–
393

rituals,
9–
10

scrapbooks,
25–
27,
30

Rensselaer, Thomas van,
166
,
185

Republican Party,
229
,
231
,
363–
365,
366
,
367

Rice, T. D.,
190

Rich, Anna,
360

Richards, Eliza,
140
,
144
,
350

Ridgeway, Charles,
206

Riis, Jacob,
341

Ripley, George, Brook Farm,
198

Robinson, Jeremiah,
227–
228

Rode, Sergeant John W.,
242–
243,
253

Roebling, John,
311

Roebling, Washington,
311

Roe, Caroline,
140

Roe, Elizabeth,
140

Roeleff, Sara,
51

Ruffin, George L.,
318

Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre,
359

Ruggles, David, New York Vigilance Committee,
195

Russwurm, John,
68
,
86

Saint-Domingue revolution,
2
,
36

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church,
28
,
29
,
37
,
44–
46,
45
,
65
,
168–
170,
249
,
291

and black priests,
112

and Cypress Hills Cemetery,
385

and Diocesan Convention,
207–
209,
210–
211,
213–
215,
333–
335

and Draft Riots,
248–
252

High Church values in,
113–
114,
213

Parish Home,
339

and race riot (1834),
101–
102

sale of Mulberry Street church,
340–
343

and Trinity Church,
30
,
44–
46,
101
,
108
,
169
,
250
,
340

vestrymen,
169
,
212
,
215
,
250
,
337

West Twenty-fifth Street,
342–
344

Women’s Missionary Association,
338

Schapps, Cornelius,
299
,
300
,
304

Schermerhorn, Peter,
38
,
48

Schomburg, Arthur A.,
22–
23

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

author’s research in,
1–
2,
27

formation of,
22–
23

scientific racism,
188–
189,
209
,
216
,
320

Scott, Dred,
230

Scott, Henry,
166
,
167
,
205
,
213
,
215

Scott, Winfield,
204

Scottron, Samuel,
288
,
316
,
324–
325,
362
,
373

scrapbooking,
26–
27,
30

Seneca Village,
239–
240

Shakespeare, William,
18
,
176
,
381–
383

Shaw, Robert Gould,
265

Shotwell, Anna,
157

Sidney, Thomas,
92

death of,
88
,
147

and New York Select Academy,
141

and Noyes Academy,
105–
106

and Oneida Institute,
107
,
201–
202

political activism of,
88

school years of,
5
,
78

Simons, Peter Paul,
138–
139

Sipkins, Henry,
64
,
65
,
69
,
92

Sipkins, Thomas,
75
,
258

Smith, Gerrit,
153
,
198–
199,
200
,
201
,
256

Smith, James McCune,
28
,
83
,
171
,
172
,
193
,
386

aging of,
185
,
186
,
272
,
273

and Andrews,
77
,
92

background of,
66–
67,
196
,
208

in Brooklyn,
284
,
288
,
290

and
Colored American
,
117

and Colored Orphan Asylum,
157–
158,
191–
192,
232

as Communipaw,
217
,
218
,
219–
222

and community institutions,
119
,
124–
126,
128
,
130–
132,
133
,
141
,
204
,
205

death of,
272–
273,
290
,
388

and Emancipation Day,
72–
73,
100

in Europe,
114–
116

Garnet sketch by,
66–
67,
73
,
96–
97,
98
,
107
,
387

grave of,
19
,
385

and Hewlett,
41–
42

as medical doctor,
156–
158

and medical education,
114–
116

as mentor to Philip White,
13
,
67
,
79
,
146
,
156

and National Lincoln Monument

Association,
275

pharmacy of,
4
,
146
,
156
,
158
,
160
,
164
,
165
,
166

political activism of,
124
,
126
,
194
,
201
,
204
,
224
,
230
,
264
,
283
,
289
,
320

property of,
95
,
167
,
186

and St. Philip’s,
112
,
168
,
169
,
212
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
250

school years of,
5
,
7
,
81
,
82–
84,
86
,
88
,
90
,
91

and Timbucto,
198–
199

Smith, Malvina,
233

Smith, Samuel,
66

Smith, ex dem. Teller, v. G. & P. Lorillard
,
50–
51

social elite.
See
elites

Société des Amis Réuni,
123

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
44

Society of Sons of New York,
316–
317

Spread, Ann,
216
,
217

Squibb, Edward,
331–
333

Statue of Liberty,
13

Stewart, Alexander,
185

Stewart, Maria,
137–
138,
140

Stewart, T. McCants,
316
,
323

and Brooklyn Board of Education,
372–
373

and Brooklyn Literary Union,
348

and Democratic Party,
364
,
365
,
366
,
372

and Downing,
79
,
103
,
279

and Grant,
388

Stoddard, William,
251
,
255

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
197
,
218
,
387

Strong, George Templeton,
54–
55,
211–
213,
215
,
216
,
226
,
259–
260,
262
,
383