Proceedings of the Convention of Free Colored People of the State of Maryland Reviews of Books: Abel's The Slaveholding Indians. Volume I: As Slaveholder and Secessionist; George's The Political History of Slavery in the United States; Clark's The Constitutional Doctrines of Justice Harlan; Thompson's Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Political, 1865--1872 Notes VOL. I., NO. 4, OCTOBER, 1916 CONTENTS C. E. Pierre: The Work of The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts among the Negroes in the Colonies Alice Dunbar-Nelson: People of Color in Louisiana, Part I William T. McKinney: The Defeat of the Secessionists in Kentucky in 1861 J. Kunst: Notes on Negroes in Guatemala During the Seventeenth Century; A Mulatto Corsair of the Sixteenth Century Documents: Travelers' Impressions of Slavery in America from 1750 to 1800: Burnaby's View of the Situation in Virginia; General Treatment of Slaves Among the Albanians--Consequent Attachment of Domestics.--Reflections on Servitude by an American Lady; Impressions of an English Traveler; Abbé Robin on Conditions in Virginia; Observations of St. John De Crèvecoeur; Impressions of Johann D. Schoepf; Extracts from Anburey's Travels Through North America; Vindication of The Negroes: A Controversy; Sur L'état Général, Le Genre D'industrie, Les Moeurs, Le Caractère, Etc. Des Noirs, Dans Les États-unis; Slavery as Seen by Henry Wansey; Esclavage Par La Rochefoucauld-liancourt; Observations Sur L'esclavage Par La Rochefoucauld-liancourt; What Isaac Weld Observed in Slave States; John Davis's Thoughts on Slavery; Observations of Robert Sutcliff; Some Letters of Richard Allen and Absalom Jones to Dorothy Ripley; Letter from an African Minister, Resident in Philadelphia Addressed to Dorothy Ripley. Letter from an African, resident in Philadelphia, to Dorothy Ripley Reviews of Books: Clayton's The Aftermath of the Civil War, in Arkansas; Evans's Black and White in the Southern States; Sayers's Samuel Coleridge-Taylor--Musician. His Life and Letters; Bailey's Race Orthodoxy in the South and Other Aspects of the Negro Problem; Notes INDEX TO VOLUME I. Abel, A. H. II, The Slaveholding Indians of, reviewed, 339 African Mind, The, 42 Aftermath of the Civil War, The, reviewed, 444 Albany, a state convention of Colored people at, 293; slavery at, 400 Allen, Richard, letter of, 436 American Colonization Society opposed by free Negroes, 276 American lady, an, on the treatment of slaves, 400 Anburey, travels through North America, quoted, 407 Anderson, Martha E., a teacher in Ohio, 19 Andrew, one of the first Negroes to teach in Charleston, 352 Angus, Judith, the will of, 238 Antar, the Arabian Negro Warrior, Poet and Hero, 151 Arming the slaves, urged in South Carolina, 121; in Virginia, 119; in Rhode Island, 119; in Massachusetts, 120; in New York, 120 Astor, John Jacob, grandson of, aided slaves to purchase freedom, 252