Read Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Online
Authors: Carla L. Peterson
Sturges, Jonathan,
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Stuyvesant family,
50
Swartwort, Samuel,
184
Tappan, Arthur and Lewis
Thompson, Elizabeth,
264
Thompson, Mary White,
385
Timbucto,
198–
199
Trinity Church
Tubman, Harriet,
10
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,”
12
upper class.
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elites
Van Haarlem, Jan Jansen,
40
Van Salee, Abram Jansen,
40
Van Vleeck, Abraham and Isaac,
50
Victoria, queen of England,
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voting rights, demands for,
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,
121–
122,
125–
126,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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289,
363–
367
Aggressive Radical Republican League,
363
Colored Citizens Central Republican League of Kings County,
363
,
366
Colored Political Association of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County,
288
New York Association for the Political Elevation and Improvement of the Colored People,
121–
124
New York City and County Suffrage Committee of Colored Citizens,
230
New York State Suffrage Association,
288
Young Men’s Elective Franchise Club of Williamsburgh,
288
Wake, Mary,
233
The Future of the Negro Race
,
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wealthy.
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elites
Webster, William,
141
Weekly Anglo-African
,
27
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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275,
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children of,
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in Brooklyn,
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and Brooklyn Board of Education,
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372
and Charles Reason,
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146
and the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York,
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164,
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333
and the New York Society for the Promotion of Education Among Colored Children,
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,
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206
and Patrick Reason,
146
and St. Philip’s,
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,
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,
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,
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209,
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,
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215,
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337,
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,
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,
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social life,
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316
as teacher,
141–
142
Whitman, Walt,
186
Williams, Fannie Barrier,
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Williams, George Washington,
History ofthe Negro Race in America
,
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and community institutions,
127
and Emancipation Day,
100
and voting rights,
122
papers of,
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25
Williamson, William Edward,
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women
as activists,
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137,
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264,
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,
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348,
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,
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358,
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in Boston,
138
and friendship albums,
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172
Yates, William Henry,
252
Zion A.M.E. Church,
291
Zion Home for the Aged,
360
Zuille, John,
253