The Black abolitionist papers: Vol. 5, The United States, 1859-1865

Illustations Maps Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editorial Statement 1. The Emigration Alternative: Circular by the African Civilization Society, 16 February 1859; Essay by James Theodore Holly, [May 1859] 2. William J. Whipper tp Benjamin S. Jones, 15 April 1859 3. Samuel Ringgold Ward to G. W. Reynolds, 7 May 1859 4. thomas Hamilton to John Jay, 27 May 1859 5. Essay by William J. Watkins, 5 September 1859 6. Henry Highland Garnet to Simeon S. Jocelyn, 14 September 1859 7. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 5 November 1859 8. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 19 November 1859 9. John A. Copeland, Jr., and the Harpers Ferry Raid: John A. cCopeland, Jr., to John A. Copeland, Sr., and Delilah Copeland, 26 November 1859; John A. Copeland, Jr., to Addison M. Halbert, 10 December 1859 10. Resolutions by William Lambert, Presented at the Second Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan, 2 December 1859 11. Circular by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper for Arkansas Free Blacks, January 1860 12. Speech by John S. Rock, Delivered at the Meionaon, Boston, Massachusetts, 5 March 1860 13. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 17 March 1860 14. William Anderson to William C. Nell, April 1860 15. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to Jane E. Hitchcock Jones, 21 September 1860 16. James McCune Smith and the Struggle for Equal Suffrage: James McCune Smith to Stephen A. Myers, 21 September 1860; James McCune Smith to Gerrit Smith, 20 October 1860 17. Speech by H. Ford Douglas, Delivered at the Town Hall, Salem, Ohio, 23 September 1860 18. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 22 December 1860 19. James McCune Smith to Henry Highland Garnet, 30 December 1860, 5 January 1861 20. Editorials by George Lawrence, Jr., 13 April 1861, 27 April 1861 21. James McCune Smith to Gerrit Smith, 22 August 1861 22. The Black Whole in the Civil War: "R. H. V." to Robert Hamilton, September 1861; Alfred M. Green to Robert Hamilton, October 1861 23. Prtition of William E. Walker to the United States Congress, December 1861 24. Robert Hamilton to John Jay, 27 January 1862 25. John Oliver to William L. Coan, 5 February 1862 26."What Shell We Do with the Contrabands?," by James Madison Bell 27. Report by William Still, 22 May 1862 28. Editorial by Philip A. Bell, 14 June 1862 29. William H. Parham to Jacob C. White, Jr., 7 September 1862

30. George B. Vashon to Abraham Lincoln, [September 1862] 31. John Oliver to Simeon S. Jocelyn, 25 November 1862, 17 February 1863 32. H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass, 8 January 1863 33. H. Ford Douglas to Ralph Roberts, 11 January 1863 34. John Oliver to Simeon S. Jocelyn, 14 January 1863 35. Editorial by Robert Hamilton, 17 January 1863 36. H. Ford Douglas to Owen Lovejoy, 3 February 1863 37. Editorial by Peter Anderson, 14 February 1863 38. James H. Hudson to Peter Anderson, 25 February 1863 39. Meunomennie L. Maimi to T. A. Maimi, March 1863 40. Harriet A. Jacobs to Lydia Maria Child, 18 March 1863 41. George E. Stephen to Robert Hamilton, 2 April 1863 42. Alexander T. Augusta to editor, Washington National Republican, 15 May 1863 43. Sattira A. Douglas to Robert Hamilton, 9 June 1863 44. Editorial by Robert Hamilton, 20 June 1863 45. Harriet Tubman to "Boston Friends," 30 June 1863 45. Manifesto of the Colored Citizens of the State of New York, 16 July 1863 47. The New York City Draft Riots: William P. Powell to William Lloyd Garrison, 18 July 1863 ; Essay by J. W. C. Pennington, 20 July 1863 48. The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment: Lewis H. douglass to Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray Douglass, 20 July 1863 ; George E. Stephens to William Still, 19 September 1863 49. First Annual Report of the Contraband Relief Association, presented at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., 9 August 1863 50. Report by the Anti-Slavery Committee of the Genesee Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, presented at Binghamton, New York, 5 September 1863

51. Editorial by Robert Hamilton, 26 September 1863 52. Martin R. Delany to Edwin M. Stanton, 15 December 1863 53. "Rhode Island" to Robert Hamilton, 10 January 1864 54. Anonymous Washington, D. C., correspondent to Robert Hamilton, 17 January 1854 55. John S. Rock to the Soldiers of the Fifth United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, 30 May 1864 56. The 1864 Presidential election: J. W. C. Pennington to Robert Hamilton, 9 June 1864 ; "Africano" to Robert Hamilton, 18 July 1864 57. William D. Forten to Charles Sumner, 18 June 1864 58. Sattira A. Douglas to Robert Hamilton, 4 July 1864 59. The Mission to the Freedmen: Edward Scott to George Whipple, 22 July 1864 ; John N. Mars to George Whipple, 29 July 1864 60. George E. Stephens to Robert Hamilton, 1 August 1864 61. James McCune Smith to Robert Hamilton, August 1864 62. Speech by John S. Rock, delivered at the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Syracuse, New York, 6 October 1864 63. John S. Rock to Charles Sumner, 17 December 1864 64. Joseph E. Sampson to Robert Hamilton, 23 January 1865 65. Editorial by S. W. Rogers, 22 April 1865 66. J. Sella Martin to editor, New York Evening Post, 24 April 1865 67. Speech by Charles Lenox Remond, delivered at Union Square Congregational Church, New York, New York, 9 May 1865 68. Constitution of the Colored Men's Equal Rights League of Richmond, 9 May 1865 69. H. Ford Douglas and the impressment of Black Troops: Soldiers of the Kansas Independent Battery of United States Colored Light Artillery to H. Ford Douglas, 19 June 1865 ; H. Ford Douglas to John Barber, 20 June 1865

70. Address by a Committee of Norfolk Blacks, 26 June 1865

71. Speech by Martin R. Delany, delivered at the Brick Church, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 23 July 1865

72. Jermain Wesley Loguen to Robert Hamilton, 26 July 1865

73. Editorial by Philip A. Bell, 28 July 1865

74. Editorial by Robert Hamilton, 3 September 1865

75. Editorial by Robert Hamilton, 9 September 1865

76. Editorial by Philip A. Bell, 15 September 1865

77. George T. Downing to Robert Hamilton, 20 October 1865

78. Speech by John Mercer Langston, delivered at the Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana, 25 October 1865

79. Essay by J. W. C. Pennington, 29 November 1865

80. Samuel Childress to Robert Hamilton, 29 November 1865.