Nathaniel, 67
Goslee, Abraham, 69–70
gradual emancipation, 36, 38, 40, 43–44, 54, 99
Graff, Allen, 213
Great Britain, 16, 140
abolitionist support in, 20, 24, 25, 50, 56, 57, 85, 90, 92, 101, 136, 137, 148, 166, 168, 180, 184–87, 189, 191, 202
as destination for fugitives, 56, 105, 148
slavery in New York City under, 28–32
slaves offered freedom by, 33–36, 37–38
in slave trade, 28
Great Dismal Swamp, 16
Great Negro Plot (1741), 29
Greeley, Horace, 110, 131, 210, 228
Green, James S., 220
Green, William, 72–73
Grigby, Barnaby and Mary Elizabeth, 203–4
Grimké, Sarah, 56
Hagerstown, Md., 207
Haiti, 107
Hall, Charles, 199
Hall, Charles M., 130
Hall, Jacob, 199, 200
Halliday, Simeon (character), 155
Hamilton, Alexander, 41
Hamilton, Canada, 207
Hamlet, James, 126–30, 132–33, 135, 136, 145
Harned, William, 89, 115–16
Harris, Charlotte, 164–65
Harris, James and Elizabeth, 200
Harrisburg, Pa., 123, 158–60, 207, 208
Hartford, Conn., 73
Harvard, 92, 149
Havre de Grace, Md., 56
Haxall, Richard, 61
Haxall and Company, 196
Hayden, Lewis, 105, 120, 147, 148
Hayes, Rutherford B., 148
Haywood, John, 198
Haywood, Rufus, 60
Henning, Thomas, 182
Hennison, Albert, 202
Henry Box Brown’s Mirror of Slavery , 104
Hewitt, Mrs., 142
Higgins, James W., 63
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 187, 205
Hill, John Henry, 165
Hill, Samuel, 198
Hill, Simon, 207–8
Hilliard, Frances, 202
Hingham, Mass., 91–92
Hodges, Graham, 7
Holliday, Charles, 206–7
Hollingsworth, Jacob, 207
Honduras, 50
Hopkins, Henry, 191–92
Hopper, Isaac T., 57–58, 73, 76, 88–90, 93–94, 99–100, 113, 229
Hopper, Josiah, 113
hotels, in New York City, 45–46
House of Representatives, U.S., 123, 223
Fugitive Slave Bill in, 121
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 105
Howe, Timothy O., 217
Hoy, Josiah, 213
Hudson River, 2, 34, 73, 177
Hughes, Thomas, 73
Hughlett, William, 192
Hungarian revolution (1848), 166
Hunn, John, 156
Hunt, Washington, 166
identification, 69–72
Illinois, 217, 220, 222, 223
immigration, 8, 136
indentured servants, 31
Independence Day, tensions over, 48
Independent , 211
Indiana, 92, 98, 217
Indian nations:
as destination for fugitives, 16, 30
treaties with, 25
integration efforts, 226
intermarriage, 59–60
Iowa, 225
Ireland:
abolitionist support in, 180
home rule for, 226
Irish, 85, 133, 136, 200
Iverson, Alfred, 220
Jackson, Andrew (slave), 158
Jackson, Ben, 191–92
Jackson, Francis, 104, 113–14, 177, 178, 189
Jackson (steamer employee), 173
Jacobs, Harriet, 7, 102–3, 135
Jacobs, John S., 102–3, 135
Jake (William Dixon; fugitive slave), 2, 70–71
Jane (slave), 139
Jay, John, 41, 43, 56, 58, 107
Jay, John, II, 107, 112–15, 131, 133, 137–38, 140–42, 178
Jay, William, 56–57, 58, 60, 66, 107, 178
Jeffers, Mary, 210
Jersey City, N.J., 175
Jim (fugitive slave), 214
Jocelyn, Simeon S., 89
Joe (fugitive slave), 105
Johns, Ann, 202–3
Johns, Daniel (Joseph Cornish), 202–3
Johnson, Daniel, 142–44
Johnson, Frederick, see Douglass, Frederick
Johnson, Henry, 158
Johnson, Isaiah, 142–44
Johnson, Jane, 142–44
Johnson, Joseph, 106
Johnson, Oliver, 96, 100, 159, 211–12, 222–23
Johnson, Richard M., 141
Johnson, Rowland, 161, 174
Johnson, William Henry, 21
Johnston, William, 63–66, 75, 83, 85
Joiner, Maria, 209
Jones, George, 73–74
Jones, James, 197
Jones, John T., 207
Jones, Rebecca, 200–2
Jones, Thomas, 199, 207
Jordan, William, 209
Journal of Commerce , 127, 178, 219
juries:
blacks prohibited on, 47
in Canada, 137
jury trial:
denied to fugitives, 24, 29, 51, 71, 72
fugitives’ right to, 51–52, 78, 111, 121, 149, 216, 220
Justice Department, U.S., 148
Juvenile Miscellany , 95
Kansas, black emigration to, 227
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 149, 216
Kelley,