of black colleges and universities; motivations for obtaining; parental concerns regarding; punishment for obtaining; sacrifices made for; societies/organizations to promote; Southern white opposition to; white children teaching black children. See also Schools
Edwards, Ann
Edward Waters College
Elder, Larry
Eldridge, J. E.
Ellington, Betty Ann
Ellington, Harry
Elliott, Robert Brown
Ellis, William
Elmore, Grace
Else, Amy
Emancipation: announcement of news of; and arming of slaves; joy over newfound status; legislative efforts toward (see also Confiscation Acts); Lincolnâs scheme for; slaves staying versus leaving following. See also Lincoln, Abraham, and black freedom
Emancipation amendment. See Thirteenth Amendment
Emancipation celebrations; throughout Reconstruction period
Emancipation Proclamation; and Border states; response to; significance; and Union military
Emigrationist movements. See also Colonization; Migration
Employment; freedmenâs efforts to secure
Enlisting in military, blacks; blacksâ reasons for; Confederate enlistment bill of 1865, 75; efforts to stop; forced; reasons for opposition to; traumatic experience of; violence done to blacks for. See also Confiscation Acts
Enlistment Act of
Episcopal Church
Epps, Tom
Equal Rights League
Erwing, Cynthia
Espionage
Everett, Martha
Families, black; of enlistees; forced separations; quest to free, from white control; reunion with lost ones; steps to promote interest of; unknowing marriage between members
Family: attachment and devotion to; as sacred institution
Family servants
Fayetteville State College
Fee, John G.
Felder, Sarah
Field slaves
Fields, Jackson
Fields, Sarah
Fifteenth Amendment; struggle for
Fillmore, Millard
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Fisk University
Fitzgerald, Robert
Fleming, George
Floyd, Sylvia
Ford, Laura
Forrest, Nathan Bedford
Fort Clark
Forten, Charlotte
Forten, Lottie
Fort Jackson
Fort Morgan
Fort Pillow massacre of
Fortress Monroe
Fort Sumter
Foster, Abby Kelley
Foster, Sarah Jane
Foster, Stephen
Fourteenth Amendment
Fowler, Mat
Fox, Colonel
Frankel, Noralee
Franklin, Richard
Franks, Dora
Fraser, Bella
Frazier, Julia
Freedmen: black efforts to alleviate sufferings of; postwar problems facing; reasons for remaining in South; sent back to plantations
Freedmen and Soldiers Relief Association of Washington
Freedmenâs Bureau; and education
Freedmenâs Savings Bank
Freeman, David
Freeman, Rose
Frémont, John C.
Fry David
Fugitive Slave Law
Fuller, Nat
Gaines, Wesley
Gambling, among black troops
Ganaway, Charles
Gardner, James
Garnet, Henry Highland
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gender roles
Georgia Educational Association
Gibbs, Jonathan C.
Gibbs, Oscar
Gibson, Julia
Gill, Andrew Jackson
Gill, James
Gilmore, Brawley
Gladdy, Mary
Glatthaar, Joseph
Gleaves, Richard
Glover, Martha
Goaldsby, Henry
Gooch, Henrietta
Gooding, James Henry
Gould, John
Government assistance
Graham, Anna
Grainer, George
Grant, Aaron
Grant, Austin
Grant, Susan
Grant, Ulysses S.
Greeley, Horace
Green, Ashbury
Green, Marie Aurelia
Green, Virginia C.
Greenwall, Henry
Gregg, J. Irvin
Gregory, John
Grey, Maria
Grey, Philip
Grey, Willie Ann
Griffin, Madison
Griffing, Josephine
Grimball, John Berkeley
Grimké, Francis
Gurney, William
Haiti
Hale, Edward Everett
Hall, Captain
Hall, James Henry
Hall, Prince
Hamelton, Warren
Hamlin, Ken
Hampton, Wade
Hampton Institute
Hanon, George Buck
Harding, Mr.
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
Harper, Pierce
Harris, Blanche
Harris, David
Harris, Delilah
Harris, Ella
Harris, Orris
Harris, Rachel
Harris, Sallie
Harrison, B. E.
Harrison, Samuel
USS Hartford
Haskins, Joseph
Hawkins, Eliza
Hawthorne, J. B.
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Hazel, Dennis
Head, Elbert
Heather, Mr.
Henderson, Albert
Henderson, Henry
Henderson, Morris
Henderson, Phoebe
Herrin, Evie
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Highgate, Edmonia