Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (69 page)

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Ethiopianism,
121
,
202

Female Branch of Zion,
137

Female Mite Society,
137

Fields, James,
103
,
127
,
133
,
141
,
160–
161,
167

First Colored Presbyterian Church,
65

Five Points,
63–
66,
64
,
96
,
100
,
179
,
226
,
291

Forten, Henrietta,
138

Fortune, T. Thomas,
316
,
318
,
324

and Afro-American League,
373–
374

and Brooklyn Board of Education,
372–
373

and community institutions,
346
,
348
,
373–
374

and Democratic Party,
364–
365,
366

on education,
370
,
373

and
New York Age
,
314
,
346
,
353
,
387

and
New York Freeman
,
314
,
346

and
New York Globe
,
314
,
334
,
346

Foster, George,
166
,
185
,
186

“Four Hundred, the,”
321

Francis, George,
300

Franklin, Abraham,
227

Frazer, Alexander,
210

Frederick Douglass’ Paper
,
25
,
27
,
78
,
134–
135,
165
,
172
,
189
,
192–
193,
204
,
207
,
209
,
217–
219,
230
,
278
,
288
,
381

Freedmen’s Bureau,
279

Freedom’s Journal
,
11
,
27
,
29
,
67–
68,
86
,
87
,
111
,
122
,
227

Freeman, Rhoda G.,
23
,
26

The Free Negro in New York City
,
2

Freeman, Russell,
86

Freemasonry,
23
,
133–
134,
167
,
289–
290

Free Speech
,
353
,
355

Fugitive Slave Law (1850),
194–
196,
203
,
207

Garfield, James A.,
277

Garnet, George,
97–
98

Garnet, Henry Highland,
11
,
13
,
72
,
97
,
167

death of,
389

and Draft Riots,
236–
237,
253
,
258

and Emigration Society,
123

escape from slavery,
88
,
96–
97,
196
,
208

and
Eulogium
,
97
,
107

in Liberia,
11
,
277
,
389

in the ministry,
85
,
262
,
264

and Negro nationality,
201–
203

and Noyes Academy,
105–
106

and Oneida Institute,
107–
108,
202–
202

political activism of,
98
,
200
,
230
,
231–
232,
260
,
273–
277,
289

school years of,
5
,
7

Smith’s sketch of,
66–
67,
73
,
96–
97,
98
,
107
,
387

Garnet, Julia,
264

Garnet, Sarah,
316
,
355–
356,
362

Garrison, William Lloyd,
99
,
147
,
197–
198,
238

General Theological Seminary,
108–
114,
148
,
209

German immigrants,
227
,
286
,
292

Gimber, Stephen Henry,
103
,
105

Gordon, Leonard,
328

Gotham, use of term,
7
,
47–
48

Gracie, Archibald,
182

Gradual Emancipation Act (1799),
68

Grant, Ulysses S.,
275
,
279
,
363
,
364
,
388

Greeley, Horace

political stances of,
203–
204,
224
,
229
,
364

and
Tribune
,
27
,
147
,
179
,
203
,
205
,
226
,
232

Green, Rev. Beriah,
107
,
200

Greene, George E.,
317–
318

Greener, Richard,
388

Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor,
193–
194

Grice, Freeman,
269

Guignon, Cornelia Ray,
61
,
315
,
358

children of,
154

and community institutions,
264

and finances,
155–
156,
291

marriage of,
5
,
148
,
283
,
287

and St. Philip’s,
217
,
338–
340

Guignon, Jacques,
36
,
37

Guignon, James,
35
,
149

Guignon, Peter,
14
,
36
,
67
,
253

and black elite,
7
,
28
,
59
,
263
,
363

in Brooklyn,
283
,
286
,
289
,
290–
291

children of,
4
,
154
,
283

and community institutions,
118–
119,
127–
129,
133
,
149

and Cornelia,
5
,
148
,
154
,
283
,
287

death of,
6

family background of,
36–
37,
44
,
113
,
123
,
154
,
314

and finances,
154
,
155–
156,
167
,
291

and Freemasonry,
289–
290

grave of,
19
,
385

and Kings County Pharmaceutical Society,
329
,
331–
332

obituary of,
2
,
4–
6,
23
,
24
,
26
,
35
,
66
,
79–
80,
168
,
305
,
328
,
390

pharmacy of,
156
,
300
,
303
,
326
,
329

and political activism,
124–
126,
199
,
204
,
363

and Rebecca,
5
,
23–
24,
89
,
117
,
148
,
168

and St. Philip’s,
6–
7,
168
,
333–
334

school years of,
5
,
79–
80,
81
,
84–
86

Guignon, Peter, Jr.,
5
,
15
,
154
,
168
,
283
,
305–
309

Guignon, Rebecca Marshall,
67

death of,
5
,
148
,
283

family background of,
24
,
117–
118

and Peter,
5
,
23–
24,
89
,
117
,
148
,
168

Guignon, Sophie,
36
,
37

Guignon family,
36–
37,
44
,
113
,
123
,
154
,
314

Gunian, Jean Baptist,
36

Haiti,
122–
123,
130–
132

Hall, Prince,
133

Hamilton, Robert,
224
,
273
,
274–
275,
284

Hamilton, Thomas,
224
,
231
,
284
,
363

Hamilton, William,
65

and black elite,
64
,
69
,
166
,
167
,
258

and community institutions,
66
,
133

and education,
75
,
88
,
92
,
258
,
319

oration (July
4–
5),
71–
74

and political activism,
123–
124

Hamlet, James,
194–
196,
231–
232,
283

Hardenburgh, Samuel,
72

Harding, Frank,
352

Harlem Renaissance,
7
,
14–
17

Harper, Frances Watkins,
129
,
209
,
319
,
320
,
349

Harrison, Benjamin,
363
,
365

Hayden, Jane,
216

Haytian Emigration Society of Coloured People,
122–
123

Hewlett, Elizabeth,
174

Hewlett, George,
42

Hewlett, James,
41–
42,
174–
178,
175
,
270
,
338

Hewlett, Mary,
41

Hicks, Elias,
38

Higgins, Charles,
339–
340

Hobart, Bishop John Henry,
102
,
108
,
113
,
209
,
211
,
213

Hone, Philip,
12
,
54
,
93
,
94
,
95
,
96
,
99
,
169
,
251

Irish immigrants,
12–
13,
259

in Brooklyn,
284
,
286

and Draft Riots,
225
,
227

and tobacco factory riot,
294–
295,
296

Irving, Washington,
47
,
48
,
172
,
219
,
371

Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New-York,
47
,
219

Jay, John,
109
,
232
,
251
,
256
,
259

Jay, John, II,
109
,
111
,
112
,
210
,
211
,
214–
215,
377

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