Wansey, Henry, on slavery, 427 Warden, D. B., observations of, 3 Warren, John, a preacher in Ohio, 8 Washington, Augustus, attitude of, toward emigration, 297 Washington, Booker T., note on, 98 Washington, George, on the enlistment of Negroes, 113, 115, 125 Wattles, Augustus, induced Negroes to go to Ohio, 8 Webster, Daniel, petition of, 241 Weld, Isaac, observations of, 432 West, Dr., master of James Derham, 103 West Indian migration, 370, 371 West, Reuben, a black master, 239 Whigs attacked "Black Laws" of Ohio, 16 Whitbeck, teacher of a colored school in Detroit, 31 White, Dr. Thomas J., student at Bowdoin, 105 Whitfield, James, defended the National Council, 300 Whitmore, Rev. Mr., taught Negroes in New York, 358 Wilcox, Samuel T., a wealthy Negro of Cincinnati, 20 Wilkins, Charles T., testimonial of, 32 Wilkins, William D., assisted Miss Fannie M. Richards, 31 Williams, Rev. Peter, troubles of, in New York, 288 Wilmington, anti-colonization meeting at, 284 Wilson, Bishop, urged the instruction of Negroes, 352 Wing, Mr., taught Negroes in Cincinnati, 7 Wood, Jannette, manumitted by her mother, 240 Woodson, C. G., The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, reviewed, 96; Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America, 132 Wright, Theodore, antagonistic to colonization, 294 Yeates, Rev. Mr., endeavored to instruct Negroes, 354 THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY VOLUME II. 1917 CONTENTS VOLUME II. 1917— NO. 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa Jerome Dowd The Negro in the Field of Invention Henry E. Baker Anthony Benezet C. G. Woodson People of Color in Louisiana - Part II Alice Dunbar-Nelson Notes on Connecticut as a Slave State Documents Letters of Anthony Benezet Reviews of Books Notes VOL II—APRIL, 1917—NO. 2 Evolution of Slave Status in American Democracy - I John M. Mecklin John Woolman's Efforts in Behalf of Freedom G. David Houston The Tarik É Soudan A. O. Stafford From a Jamaica Portfolio T. H. MacDermot Notes on the Nomolis of Sherbroland Walter L. Edwin Documents Observations on the Negroes of Louisiana The Conditions against which Woolman and Anthony Benezet Inveighted Book Reviews Notes Vol II—JULY, 1917—NO. 3 Formation of American Colonization Society Henry Noble Sherwood, Ph.D Evolution of Slave Status in American Democracy - II John M. Mecklin History of High School for Negroes in Washington Mary Church Terrell The Danish West Indies Leila Amos Pendleton Documents Relating to the Danish West Indies Reviews of Books Notes African Origin of Grecian Civilization VOL. II—OCTOBER, 1917—No. 4 Some Historical Errors of James Ford Rhodes John R. Lynch The Struggle of Haiti and Liberia for Recognition Charles H. Wesley Three Negro Poets Benjamin Brawley Catholics and the Negro Joseph Butsch Documents Letters of George Washington Bearing on the Negro Petition for Compensation for the Loss of Slaves An Extract from the Will of Robert Pleasants Proceedings of a Reconstruction Meeting Reviews of Books Notes