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Cabbage Tree Plantation, St. Paul's Parish, Antigua, 983

Cabin bank, 410 , 411

Cable, Fred, 107

Caesar, freed slave, 97 , 126

fugitive slave, 121 , 122
fugitive, 508
slave, 906
see also Ceasar, Cesar.

Calhoun, John Caldwell, 35 , 266 , 978

California, 146 , 631

Camp Stevens, Thibodaux, LA, 873 , 874

Campaign documents, 109 , 133 , 315 , 618 , 619 , 1856 presidential campaign, 746

Campaign speeches, 613

Canaan, NH, 788

Candia, NH, 520

Candy, "witch," 404

Candy Sam, 1139 , 1140

Canterbury, CT, 51 , 144 , 187 , 320 , 444 , 455 , 501 , 744 , 806 , 864 , 865 , 866 , 901 , 902 , 1001 , 1056

account books, 891 , 960

Canterbury Law, 929

Canton, CT, see West Simsbury, CT.

Canton, MA, 403

Cape Colony, Africa, 836

Cara, [?], 1211

Carder, John, slave owner, 995

Carrington, Alex, 1098

Alexander Harrison, 1097 , 1106 , 1107
Manzella, 1100 , 1106 , 1107
Nannette, 1096 , 1099 , 1101 , 1106 , 1107

Carrington family, 1094 , 1105

Carter, Edward, 258

Cass, General Lewis, 889 , 1050

Catalogues, 62 , 410 , 411

Cate, slave, 923

Cathron, slave, 478

Cato, 352

slave, 975

CBS Sports, 1173

Ceasar, slave, 443

see also Caesar, Cesar.

Census records, Torrington, CT, 1040

Center (Centre) Church, Hartford, CT, 23

New Haven, CT, 39 , 665

Central Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY, 476

Centre Church, see Center Church.

Cephas, 1065

Cesar, 1065

see also Caesar, Ceasar.

Champion, Henry, Colchester, CT, selectman, 895

Chapin's Farm, VA, 904

Charleston, SC, 60 , 358 , 392 , 1063

Chatham, CT, census (1774), 894

Chelmsford, MA, 798

Cheshire, CT, 179

Chester, London, freed slave, biography, 123

Chicago Cubs (baseball team), 356

Chichester, David, explosion in home, 982

Children, 1129 , 1130 , 1132

redeemed slave, 1138

Christ Church, Hartford, CT, 784 , 819

Wethersfield and New Britain, CT, 661

Christian view of slavery, 25 , 27

Christian views of prejudice, 341

Christie (fictional character), 10

Christie's Minstrels, 561

[Chum?], Irene E, 1093

Chung, Yunkil, boxer, 1244

Church Anti-Slavery Society, 184

Church building, 1108

Church group, 1109

Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, PA, 761

Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, NY, 711

Church of the Savior, Brooklyn, NY, 608

Cincinnati, OH, 111

Cinque, Amistad captive, 924 , 962 , 1006

engraving and mezzotint portrait, 1158 , 217
portrait, 217

Civil rights, 16 , 1195

bibliographies, 135

Civil War, 35 , 37 , 127 , 130 , 147 , 235 , 448 , 473 , 521 , 540 , 555 , 609 , 625 , 674 , 675 , 688 , 702 , 753 , 829 , 883

catalogue, 62
diaries, 911 , 928 , 934 , 958 , 993 , 1013 , 1033 , 1069
draft evasion, 959
journals, 1046
letters, 862 , 873 , 874 , 877 , 878 , 880- 882 , 884 , 893 , 904 , 907 , 932 , 944 , 946 , 948 , 959 , 961 , 970 , 973 , 985 , 994 , 996 , 1017 , 1070
papers, 868
reminiscences, 1028
service records, 209 , 210

Clarke, Lt. William, 754

Clay, Henry, 802 , 1038

biography, 204 , 603

Clifton Springs, NY, 140

Clute, Garret, slave owner, 497

Coe, Benjamin, slave owner, 31

Coffin, 863

Cohoes, NY, 497

Coit, Stephen, 902

Coits Mountain, NH, 820

Colchester, CT, account books, 919 , 1048

emancipations, 895
health certificate, 895
vital records, 1048

Colebrook, CT, 257 , 487

Coleman, Deacon Benjamin, 276

"College Sweeps" (nickname), 1140

Collins, John, 952

Colonization, 2 , 108 , 112- 117 , 158 , 202 , 203 , 250 , 303 , 341 , 367 , 515 , 578 , 621 , 665 , 668 , 724 , 748 , 751 , 783 , 819 , 867 , 918 , 926

attitudes towards, 56 , 89

Colonization Society of Kentucky, 108

Colonization vs. abolition, 41

Colts (football team), 1176

Combo, slave, 983

Comfort (fictional character), 313

Communism, 205

Compromise of

see Missouri Compromise.

Comstock, Onesemus, slave, 445

Concklin, Benjamin, slave owner, 896

Concord, NH, 207

Congo (fictional character?), 299

Congo, The, 837

Congregational Church, records, 43 , African American congregations, 223

Byfield, MA, 276
Canterbury, CT, records, 157
Meriden, CT, 336
Suffield, CT, 727
Warren, 244
Windham, CT, 831

Congressional speeches, in the House, 132 , 133 , 146 , 254 , 263 , 331 , 630 , 631

in the Senate, 74 , 148 , 262 , 266- 268 , 311 , 312 , 327 , 553 , 554 , 658 , 659 , 677 , 724 , 728 , 729 , 750 , 802
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Connecticut, 79 , 398 , 419 , 522 , 585 , 697 , 808

census (1762), 900
economy, 486
General Assembly, memorials to, 875
petition to, 953 , 999
Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, 213
place names, 400
probate records, 490
society, 486
survey of towns, 898

Connecticut Afro-American Historical Society, 646

Connecticut Baptist Anti-Slavery Commission, 214

Connecticut Colonization Society, 158

motives and beliefs, 988

Connecticut National Guard, 647

Connecticut Regiments, 1st Infantry, Co. A, 932

2nd Volunteer Infantry, 911
6th Volunteer Infantry, Co. F, 1017
7th Infantry, Co. C, 993
Co. F, 862
8th Regiment, Co. D, 958
9th Volunteer Infantry, 540
11th Infantry, Co. H, 948 , 1013
12th Infantry, Co. C, 873 , 874
13th Infantry, 868 , 688
Co. I, 1033
14th Infantry, 961
15th Infantry, 877 , 878
16th Infantry, 893
Co. A, 970
Co. F, 928
18th Infantry, 996
20th Infantry, 946
22nd Infantry, Co. E, 934
23rd Volunteer Infantry, Co. K, 609
29th Infantry (colored), 235 , 209 , 210 , 551 , 878 , 880 , 883 , 884
Co. H, 904
Co. I, 882
30th Infantry (colored), 209 , 210 , 235 , 996
31st Colored Infantry, 947

Connecticut Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 582

Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, 218 , 245 , 284 , 310 , 912

and the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage, 731

Connecticut State Commission on Civil Rights, publications, 216

Connecticut State Convention of Colored Men, 221

Connecticut State Inter-racial Commission, publications, 216

Connecticut State Temperance and Moral Reform Society of Colored Americans, 222

Constitutional Union Party (political), 618

Contrabands, 473 , 877 , 944 , 961 , 985 , 994 , 1013

Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies in the United States, 1066

Conventions of Delegates from the Abolition Societies, 224

Cooper Union Speech, analysis, 57

Cooperstown, NY, 474

Cornish, Chloe Holcomb, 1141

Cornwall, CT, 329 , 696

Coventry, CT, statistics, 261

Cowles, E., 890

Crandall, Almira, 960

Hezekiah, 960
Prudence, 2 , 50 , 79 , 307 , 319 , 320 , 500 , 501 , 752 , 775 , 865 , 960 , 999 , 1009 , 1057
biography, 444 , 616 , 744 , 806
marriage, 1001
school, 144 , 455 , 526 , 835 , 864 , 901 , 903 , 981 , 986 , 1001 , 1009 , 1056
trial of, 504 , 591

Cranston, [?], U.S. senator, 1169

Crittenden Compromise, 132

Crocke, "Major" Jeremiah, 192

Cromwell, CT, manufacturing in, , , , , ,

Crosby, Hannah, 991

Cubans, 1241

Cudjo, slave, military service in American Revolution, 31

Cuff, slave, 191 , 349

Cuffe, Paul, biography, 240

Cuffee, Capt. Paul, 627

Curfews, 362

violation of, 1035
in CT, breaking of, 975

Curtiss, Joshiah, slave owner, 1035

Czar Baking Powder, advertising card, 847

D'Wolf, James, 396 , 741

D'Wolf family, 395

Daguerreotypes, 1141 , 1142 , 1145- 1149

case (empty), 1144

Danbury, CT, 259

Danforth family, 232

Daniel Hand Educational Fund for Colored People, 183 , 246

Danielson, CT, 335

Danvers, MA, 732

Darby, Abel, manumission records, 825

"Dark Town Battery" (toy bank),

David House, The, Waterbury, CT, advertising card, 853

Davis, Jefferson, 35

De Wolfe, James, slave trader, 1010

Dean, Kate, slave, 163

Deep River, CT, 1076

Deercliff Manor Estate, West Hartford,

Deerfield, MA, 660

Del-Hoff [restuarant], Norwich, CT, 1095

Delaware, 558 , 559

Democratic Party, in NH, 196

Depression (U.S.), 733

Desegregation, 1210

Dialects, 447

Dicey, slave, 966

Dick, slave, 983

Discrimination, 1026 , 1181

reverse, 977
in CT, 899

District of Columbia, 480

Disunion Convention, Worcester, MA, 1054

Divorces, 1042

Dixon, James, 979

Dole, Robert, U.S. Senator, 1166

Dolls, 1090-

Domestic service, in MA, 457

Douglas, Stephen A., 26 , 155 , 619 , 946 , 1046

slave owner, 906

Douglass, Frederick, 924 , 963

biography, 269 , 270
photograph, 1137
Margaret, 307

Downing, George T., 907

Doyle, Francis, estate, 908

Draft riots, NY, 1037

Dred (fictional character), 715

Dred Scott case, 57 , 266 , 710

Drum, African, 1102

Dugan, Thomas, 352

Dukakis, Michael, U.S. presidential candidate, 1174 , 1175 , 1185

Duke, 543

Duncan, Lurana (Rena), town charge, 756

Duplex, Prince, 107

Durham, CT, 1059

NH, 692

Dutch West Indies Company, 778

Dutchess Co., NY, 482