Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

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161 Index Adams, Charles Francis, 18, 22, 28, 35 African Civilization Society, 43–44, 96, 142n14, n20; and British Honduras emigration, 46–48, 49; and Lincoln, 86–88, 105, 149n19 American Colonization Society, 1–3, 50, 147n2; and British Honduras, 29; Mitchell and, 13–14, 82 American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 31–32 Anderson, William Wemyss: attends Toronto antislavery conference, 29; and British Honduras Company, 29–32, 33, 51, 86; and Morant Bay Rebellion, 137n19 Archibald, Edward, 60–61 Austin, John Gardiner, 53–54 Babcock, Charles, 43–46, 48 Basler, Roy P., 141n9, 156n23 Bates, Edward: colonization views, 16–17, 124; on contrabands, 40; friendship with Mitchell, 83, 102; opinion on Emigration Office, 98–99, 152n13 Belize. See British Honduras Bellows, Henry W., 87 Benjamin, Judah P., 53 Blair, Francis P. (Frank), Jr.: speeches on colonization, 105–8 Blair, Montgomery: arranges meeting for Hodge, 37, 139n44; colonization advocacy, 34–35, 105, 116; relationship with Radical Republicans, 93, 106–7; relationship with Stanton, 35 Bogle, Paul, 101 Boritt, Gabor, 8, 83, 115 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 29, 137n19 British Honduras: colonization and, 10–12, 25, 31, 33–35, 37, 43–46, 48, 52, 72, 82–83, 118–19, 131n26, n27; Confederates in, 53–54; economy of, 18–20, 44, 56–57; labor shortage, 22, 28, 52, 100 British Honduras Company, 19–20, 22, 29–30, 32, 40, 43–45, 49–53, 60, 93, 100, 127 Brooks, Noah, 25 Burr, Aaron Columbus, 20 Butler, Benjamin F., 69; credibility, 7, 9, 111, 114, 123, 125, 155n22, 156n23, n28; comparison of testimony, 112–13; Lincoln, and meeting with, 109–11, 114–16 Cain, Marvin R., 158n3 Cain, Richard H., 87 Cardwell, Edward, 1st Viscount, 60 Carroll, Anna Ella, 20 Chiriquí colony, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15–16, 18, 20, 24, 61, 73, 90, 92, 96–97, 124, 126 Circular of Sept 30, 1862, Seward’s, 18, 22, 35, 73 Clay, Henry, 1, 3, 13, 100 Colonial Office, British, 15, 17, 19–23, 39–41, 52–54, 57–60, 123 Colonization fund: establishment of, 4, 13– 14; legal disputes about, 33–34, 82, 84, 87–88, 89–90, 99; repeal of, 93–94, 96 Confiscation Acts, First and Second, 3, 33 Congress: legislation pertaining to colonization, 3–4, 86, 91–94 Contrabands, 17, 21–22, 29–30, 33, 39–42, 50–51, 52, 53, 58, 93, 119 Cox, Jacob Dolson, 116 Crosby, Elisha O., 3 162 Index Darien, Isthmus of. See Panama Canal Davis, Henry Winter: speeches on colonization, 107–8 Davis, Jefferson, 51 Delany, Martin R., 29, 47 “Deputation of Negroes,” Lincoln’s Address to, 9, 86 Dickson, Samuel R., 21, 32, 36, 37, 55, 57, 140n1 Douglass, Frederick, 32, 138n30 DuBois, W. E. B., 115 DuPont, Samuel F., 107 Durden, Robert F., 73, 75–76, 79, 132n28 Dutch Guiana. See Surinam Edward, Albert the Prince of Wales, 63 Edwards, Theodore D., 21, 135n30 Emancipation Act, District of Columbia, 4 Emancipation Proclamation: significance of, 4, 6, 7–12, 24, 104, 109, 118–20, 122 Emigration Office: description, 82, 147n2; disbanded, 99; records problem, viii-ix Eyre, Edward John: emigration and, 15; Morant Bay Rebellion, 101, 137n19 Fessenden, William Pitt, 76–77 Fisher, Elwood, 97, 152n5 Foner, Eric, 7–8, 9, 121 Foreign Office, British, 17, 21–22, 23, 26, 27, 33, 39–40, 58, 61, 123 Fredrickson, George, 8–9, 115, 118, 125 Galaxy magazine. See Welles, Gideon Garfield, James A., 101, 108 Garnet Henry Highland, 29, 32, 43, 46–48, 49, 60, 71, 86–88, 129 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 114–15, 121 Gordon, George William, 101, 137n19 Grant Ulysses S., 110; and Mitchell, 102; on Panama Canal, 114 Guiana: colonization and, 20–21, 32, 35, 37, 55–60, 62, 72; economy of, 20, 57; labor shortage, 52, 58–59, 100 Gutzman, Kevin, 115 Guyana. See Guiana Hague, The. See Netherlands Haiti, 4, 6, 15, 24, 91, 93, 95, 96, 101 Harlan, James, 86, 97–100 Hay, John, 1, 4–5, 10, 11, 90; diary on colonization, 7, 8, 94–95, 108, 124 Hendricks, Thomas, 93–94 Hincks, Francis, 59, 60, 66; position on colonization, 21, 56–58 Hoadley, David, 87 Hodge, John, 19–20, 22–23, 28–29, 43–44, 49–54, 83, 86, 90, 119; antislavery views, 51; Lincoln, meeting with, 30, 36–38, 39–40, 74, 122; troubles with Usher and Stanton, 33–35, 84, 91, 93, 105. See also British Honduras Company; Hyde, Hodge & Company Howard, Oliver O., 102 Howe, Samuel Gridley, 31 Hyde, Hodge & Company, 19...