Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (73 page)

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Sturges, Jonathan,
256

Stuyvesant family,
50

Sumner, Charles,
279
,
323
,
364

Swartwort, Samuel,
184

Tappan, Arthur and Lewis

as abolitionists,
99–
100,
165
,
190
,
197
,
198
,
200
,
203
,
296

as philanthropists,
120
,
127

Taylor, Zachary,
200
,
204

Teasman, John,
68–
69,
72

Thompson, Elizabeth,
264

Thompson, Mary White,
385

Thorburn, Grant,
61
,
153

Timbucto,
198–
199

Tompkins, Fanny,
140
,
141
,
264
,
350

Toussaint, Pierre,
154–
155,
161
,
180

Toussaint L’Ouverture,
131
,
219

Trinity Church

and Negroes Burial Ground,
50
,
51
,
54

and St. Philip’s,
30
,
44–
46,
101
,
108
,
169
,
250
,
340

Tubman, Harriet,
10

Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,”
12

Underground Railroad,
195
,
240
,
296

Union League Club,
259–
260,
261–
263

upper class.
See
elites

Van Evrie, John,
188
,
189
,
190
,
213
,
345

Van Haarlem, Jan Jansen,
40

Van Salee, Abram Jansen,
40

Van Vleeck, Abraham and Isaac,
50

Victoria, queen of England,
184

Vogelsang, Peter,
166
,
168
,
265–
267,
266
,
389

Vogelsang, Theodocia DeGrasse,
168
,
265

voting rights, demands for,
120
,
121–
122,
125–
126,
198
,
230
,
239
,
264
,
277
,
288–
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

Wake, Ransom,
119
,
122
,
128
,
144
,
166
,
169

Ward, Samuel Ringgold,
85
,
196
,
197
,
200

Washington, Booker T.,
324
,
347
,
374

The Future of the Negro Race
,
387

Washington, George,
40
,
312

wealthy.
See
elites

Webster, William,
141

Weekly Anglo-African
,
27
,
224
,
230
,
231
,
244
,
247
,
253
,
260
,
272
,
274–
275,
306

Wells, Ida B.,
353–
355,
356
,
357

Whig Party,
199–
200,
204

White, Cornelia Steele,
14
,
15
,
17
,
313
,
358

White, Ellie Augusta,
313
,
314–
315,
349
,
358

White, Elizabeth Guignon,
118
,
336

childhood of,
5
,
154
,
156

children of,
313

and community institutions,
217
,
264
,
339
,
358
,
359
,
360

marriage of,
4
,
310–
312

White, Elizabeth Steele,
142–
143,
144

White, Katherine Maria,
313
,
358

White, Philip Augustus,
6
,
14
,
118
,
141–
146,
163
,
387

and the arts,
374–
376,
378–
384

and black elite,
7
,
28
,
165–
166,
313

in Brooklyn,
310–
316

and Brooklyn Board of Education,
367–
372

and Charles Reason,
144–
146

and the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York,
162–
164,
329–
333

and community institutions,
28
,
264
,
345
,
348
,
367–
371

death and memorials,
141–
143,
144
,
385
,
390–
393

homes of,
19
,
167
,
178–
179,
312

marriage of,
4
,
310–
312

and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
374–
378,
381
,
383

and the New York Society for the Promotion of Education Among Colored Children,
203
,
204–
206

obituary of,
2–
4,
23
,
26
,
141
,
161
,
244
,
246
,
313–
314,
328
,
390–
393

and Patrick Reason,
146

pharmacy of,
49
,
59
,
164–
166,
178–
182,
243–
248,
245
,
326
,
329–
333

political activism of,
196
,
204
,
289
,
345
,
362
,
373

property of,
167
,
248

racial identity of,
142–
143,
184
,
208–
209,
264
,
345
,
381

and Repubican Party,
363
,
364
,
366

and St. Philip’s,
113
,
168
,
169
,
207–
209,
210
,
213–
215,
335–
337,
337
,
339
,
340

Smith as mentor to,
13
,
67
,
79
,
146
,
156
,
158–
161

social life,
314–
316

as teacher,
141–
142

White, Sarah Maria,
178
,
233
,
264
,
385

White, Thomas,
142–
144,
165
,
208

Whitman, Walt,
186

Williams, Fannie Barrier,
359

Williams, George Washington,
History ofthe Negro Race in America
,
387

Williams, Mary,
75
,
136

Williams, Peter, Jr.,
70
,
95
,
105
,
118
,
385

abolitionist activity of,
102
,
111
,
197
,
210

and black elite,
64
,
166

and community institutions,
127

death of,
147–
148,
209

and Emancipation Day,
100

and higher education,
107
,
108
,
109
,
115

oration (January 1, 1808),
69–
71,
76

and public schools,
75
,
258

and race riot,
102
,
111
,
197

and St. Philip’s,
46
,
65
,
108
,
114

and voting rights,
122

Williams, Peter, Sr.,
61
,
65

Williamson, Harry Albro,
24
,
78
,
289–
290,
310
,
393

papers of,
23–
25

Williamson, William Edward,
24

Wilson, William J.,
165
,
275
,
284
,
286

as Ethiop,
165
,
167
,
172–
173,
217–
218,
219

Wolfe, Catharine Lorillard,
341–
342,
375–
376,
376
,
377

Wolfe, John D.,
251
,
341

Woman’s Loyal Union,
355
,
357–
358

women

as activists,
136–
137,
263–
264,
339
,
346–
348,
349
,
353–
358,
359–
360

in Boston,
138

exclusion from male organizations,
119
,
135–
138,
338
,
349

and friendship albums,
170–
172

in Philadelphia,
138
,
171

as teachers,
139–
141,
350–
352

Wood, Fernando,
228
,
240

Wordsworth, William,
88
,
129
,
172

Yates, William Henry,
252

Zion A.M.E. Church,
291

Zion Home for the Aged,
360

Zuille, John,
253

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