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Garrett-Davis, my former student at Amherst College, caught the bug early on and quickly proved an invaluable partner in this project, helping me trace the King family’s movements across the changing landscape of Brooklyn and Queens. While Josh helped me in New York, Lea Dowd and her granddaughter Sarah welcomed me into their Georgia home and became my guides to the landscape of Ada Copeland’s childhood. I thank Lea, too, for taking me with her to a Copeland family homecoming in the summer of 2004; it was a memorable experience for me, and I am grateful to the assembled family members who so patiently indulged this interloper’s requests for stories.
    When I began this project, I never suspected I would meet someone who had known Ada Copeland Todd King; I had not yet discovered that she lived to be 103. But then I found her great-granddaughter, Patricia Chacon. Patty has a trove of valuable family memories, and a keen sense of which might prove most useful to a writer. She and her husband, Edgar, opened up their home to me, and Patty generously shared with me her stories and family snapshots. I am deeply grateful to her for her trust and support, and for her willingness to share her ancestors with a curious outsider like myself.
    In the end, of course, this is a book about a family. So I offer thanks to my children, Adam and Sarah, constant reminders of why family matters. And I dedicate this book to my parents, Joy and Jerry Sandweiss, who first showed me the value and power of familial love.
     
    Martha A. Sandweiss
Pelham, Massachusetts
May 2008

Index

    Adaline (slave)
    Adams, Clover
    Adams, Henry
    Hay’s correspondence with
    historical writings of
    on King as ideal American
    and King’s Caribbean trip
    King’s friendship with
    and King’s ill health
    and King’s love of paradox
    on King’s nervous breakdown
    on King’s restlessness
    and wife’s suicide
    African Americans:
    civil rights of
    discrimination against
    economic progress of
    education of
    as freed people
    health care for
    as lawyers
    military service of
    neighborhoods of
    newspapers of
    northern emigration of
    “passing” by
    racial identity of
    religious affiliations of
    in slavery
    violence against
    African Methodist Episcopal Church
    Afro-American Council
    Agassiz, Louis
    Age of Innocence, The (Wharton)
    Allston, Washington
    Along This Way (Johnson)
    “amalgamation”
    Amateis, Louis
    American Anti-Slavery Society
    American Art Association
    American Geographical Society
    American Historical Association
    American Institute of Mining Engineers
    American Journal of Science
    American Philosophical Society
    American Silences (Papanikolas)
    Amsterdam News
    Ancona, John
    Anglo-Mexican Mining Co.
    Antietam, Battle of
    Appletons’ Journal of Literature, Science and Art
    Armour, Philip
    Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
    Atlantic Monthly
    Augusta (black servant)
    Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Johnson) -52 n

     
    Bachner, Frederick
    Bancroft, Hubert Howe
    Base of the Rocky Mountains, Laramie Peak (Bierstadt)
    Beale, Emily
    Beard, George Miller
    Becker, Alexander
    Becker, George
    Beecher, Henry Ward
    Bell, Morris
    Bethlehem Baptist Church
    Bible
    Bierstadt, Albert
    Birth of a Nation
    Black and Tan clubs
    Black Belt
    Black Manhattan (Johnson)
    Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane
    Body, Rias
    Boozier, Andrew
    Boston Herald
    Brace, Charles Loring
    Brewer, William H.
    Brick Presbyterian Church
    Bridgham, Albert
    Bronson, Edgar Beecher
    Brooklyn Bridge
    Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    Brooklyn Navy Yards
    Brooklyn White Lead Co.
    Brown, Edward V.
    Brown, Letitia
    Browne, Junius Henri
    Brownell, William Crary
    Brownsville, Tex., race riot (1906)
    Brown University
    Brush, George J.
    Buckland, William
    Bullock, Thomas
    Burns, Clarence
    Burns, Grace King
    Burns, Grace Margaret
    Burns, James A.
    Burns, Thelma
    Burroughs, John

     
    Caldwell, J. H.
    California State Geological Survey
    Cameron, Elizabeth
    Camp Cure (Mitchell)
    Camulos ranch
    Carswell, William
    Cary,