Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (71 page)

National Convention of Colored Citizens,
273–
274

National Cotton Planters’ Association,
361

National Council of Colored People,
201

National Council of Colored Women,
359

nationality, defining,
201–
203

National Lincoln Monument Association,
275–
276,
276

Neau, Elias,
44

Negroes Burial Ground,
11–
12,
45
,
50–
55

Negro Society for Historical Research,
22

Nell, William C.,
165
,
244

New Orleans World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition,
361–
363

Newport, Rhode Island,
278–
279

New York, N.Y.

abolitionists in,
99–
100,
102
,
194–
198,
232
,
295–
296

blackbirding in,
96–
98,
106
,
196

Black Broadway,
172–
174

Board of Education,
139
,
205–
206

cholera in,
94–
96,
115
,
181–
182

Collect Pond (Kalkhook),
51
,
56–
57

Collect (Centre) Street,
37–
44

commerce in,
49–
50

Crystal Palace,
29
,
193

Doctors Riot (1788),
54

Draft Riots (1863),
157
,
223–
258

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

Great Fire (1835),
93
,
154

industries,
48–
49,
93
,
182

Lower Manhattan map,
52

minstrelsy,
190–
191

Negro Plot (1741),
53

neighborhoods, black,
6
,
37
,
60
,
63–
64,
94–
95,
100–
101,
226
,
239–
240

neighborhoods, mixed,
7–
8,
29
,
49
,
60
,
63–
64,
94–
95,
179
,
180
,
182
,
237
,
244–
248

neighborhoods, white,
60
,
94
,
186

population, free blacks,
13
,
28–
29,
122

population, total,
28–
29,
50

Public School Society,
139–
141,
144
,
204
,
205

public transportation in,
191–
192

race riot (1834),
99–
102,
111
,
165
,
197

slave insurrection (1712),
38
,
53

slavery in,
13
,
28–
29,
38
,
48–
49,
50
,
68
,
69–
74,
153
,
154
,
195–
196,
228

the Swamp (Greppel Bosch),
49
,
180–
181,
246–
247

yellow fever in,
57–
58,
59

See also
Brooklyn, N.Y.

New York Age
,
2
,
11
,
23
,
27
,
161
,
314
,
325
,
334
,
346
,
353
,
365
,
366

New York Association for the Political Elevation and Improvement of the People of Color,
121–
124

New York Daily Tribune
,
27
,
130
,
147
,
179
,
203
,
205
,
224
,
226
,
232–
235,
256
,
262
,
293
,
298
,
306

New York Freeman
,
2
,
11
,
23
,
27
,
29
,
79
,
133
,
279
,
314
,
325–
326,
346

New York Globe
,
27
,
29
,
314
,
334
,
346
,
364–
365

New York Herald
,
180
,
203
,
240

New-York Historical Society,
20–
21,
68

New York and Newport Ugly Fishing Club,
317–
319

New York Post
,
184

New York Public Library,
22–
23

New York Select Academy,
141

New York Society for the Promotion of Education Among Colored Children,
27
,
203–
206

New York Times
,
180
,
224
,
244
,
246
,
247
,
293

New York Vigilance Committee,
195
,
389

North Star
,
27
,
147
,
164
,
165
,
187
,
288

Nott, Josiah,
188

Noyes, John Humphrey,
198

Noyes Academy,
105–
106

Oberlin College,
5
,
232
,
305–
309

Odd Fellows,
133–
134,
135
,
167

Ogden, Peter,
133
,
135

Onderdonk, Bishop Benjamin

and General Theological Seminary,
108–
114,
148
,
209

immorality charge against,
211–
213,
216

and St. Philip’s,
101
,
102
,
210
,
213

and Williams,
102
,
148

Oneida Institute,
107
,
137
,
200
,
306

Opdyke, George,
229

Palmer, L. M.,
299

Panic of 1837,
50
,
93

Parrish, Edward,
160

“Patriarchs,”
321

Paul, Susan,
138

Penn, Garland,
The Afro American Pressand Its Editors
,
387

Pennington, Rev. J. W. C.,
189
,
193
,
236
,
273

Peterson, Cornelia Steele White (grandmother),
14
,
15
,
17
,
313
,
358

Peterson, Dorothy Randolph (aunt),
14
,
15
,
17
,
18
,
313

Peterson, Eliza,
233

Peterson, Jerome Bowers (grandfather),
14
,
16
,
316
,
337
,
387

background of,
325

and community institutions,
334
,
346

and Republican Party,
363
,
365
,
366

Peterson, Jerome Sidney (father),
14
,
16–
17

Peterson, John,
166

birthday dinners and honors to,
386
,
389–
390

and community institutions,
119
,
133
,
250
,
289
,
334
,
339

and Draft Riots,
250
,
258

and education,
140
,
204
,
205

obituary of,
133

and voting,
125

Peterson, Philip White,
15
,
17
,
18

Peterson, Rebecca,
137
,
140
,
171
,
205
,
350

Philomathean Society,
27
,
127–
132,
133

Phoenixonian Society,
127

Phoenix Society,
157

Pintard, John,
20
,
21
,
68
,
90

Pollock, Robert,
172

Porter, Peter,
253

Post-Reconstruction,
280
,
345

as nadir,
345

repeal of civil rights legislation,
280
,
345

Powell, William

and Draft Riots,
237–
239,
242
,
253

and education,
204–
205

and political activism,
195–
196,
231

and sailors’ home,
181
,
182
,
237–
238

Price, William,
184

Public School Society,
139–
141,
144
,
204
,
205

Putnam, Georgiana,
352
,
371
,
372–
373

race, definitions of

in
Frederick Douglass’ Paper
,
217–
222

by Linnaeus,
43

racial mixing,
38–
44

by scientific racists,
188–
189

Rankin, John,
99
,
165
,
204

Ray, Ann,
233
,
343

Ray, Charles,
385
,
389

and
Colored American
,
117

and Draft Riots,
252
,
253
,
258

and education,
205–
206,
370

and New York Vigilance Committee,
195
,
389

political activism of,
117
,
138
,
195
,
196
,
363

property of,
167
,
240

and Timbucto,
198

and Underground Railroad,
240
,
389

Ray, Charlotte,
233

Ray, Cordelia Scottron,
287

Ray, Henrietta,
136–
137

Ray, Peter,
155
,
161

and black elite,
169

in Brooklyn,
291

and community institutions,
214
,
215
,
339

and Draft Riots,
250

at Lorillard factory,
61–
62,
149–
151,
326–
327,
341
,
389

and St. Philip’s,
153
,
343