Americans, unfavorable attitude of, 41 Anderson, I. H., a pioneer C. M. E. preacher, 196 Anderson, Thomas, a preacher in Savannah, 116 Anderson, William, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Andrew, Governor John A., a friend of the freedmen, 213 Andrew, a pioneer Negro teacher in Charleston, 8-9 Anglican clergy, the attitude of, 20-24; corruption, 20, 21, 22 Anthony Street Church, establishment of, in Mobile, 135 Arnett, Bishop B. W., religious work of, 236; in politics, 235-236; effort of, to repeal "Black Laws," 236 Asbury, Bishop, the position of, 26, 28; work of, 28-30; recognition of Richard Allen by, 73 Ashmun Institute, the establishment of, 152 Atkinson, Edward, a friend of the freedmen, 213 Auchmutty, the work of, among Negroes in New York, 14 Austin, J. C., a popular preacher in Pittsburg, 282 Babbit, Bessie, white wife of Lemuel Haynes, 63 Bacon, Thomas, sermons of, on the instruction of Negroes, 23, 151-152 Bacote, S. W., a preacher in Missouri, 277-278 Bagnall, R. W., a social welfare minister, 277; advanced position of, 304 Ballou, Hosea, contest of, with Lemuel Haynes, 64 Baltimore, Baptist churches in, 111; Association for the moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People of, the efforts of, 208, 211 Baptists, early progress of, 85-91, 107-122, 298; reason for growth of, 108-109, 110; in the North, 120-122; statistics of schools of, 206; statistics of, 286, 296; division and increase of Negro Baptists, 256-257 Baptist Association of Western States and Territories, 200 Baptist conventions, the rise of, 199-201 Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, 201 Baptist Home Missionary Society, the American, the work of, 203, 209-210 Baptists (white) the Emancipating, 32-36 Baptists (white) the work of, among Negroes, 31-36; position in 1789, 32; anti-slavery work of, 32-36; the schism of, 130; interest of, in the Negro, 160 Baptized Licking-Locust Association, 36 Barclay, T., the work of, in New York, 15 Barnett, Nelson, a pioneer Baptist preacher of West Virginia, 240 Barrow, David, the position of, 33-34 Bartow, the work of, among Negroes, 11 Baxter, Richard, ideas of, carried out, 16 Beach, J., the work of, among Negroes, 16-17 Beckett, the work of, in Pennsylvania, 11 Beebe, J. A., a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 196 Beecher, H. W., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Benezet, Anthony, a worker among Negroes in Philadelphia, 18 Bentley, George, a pioneer Negro preacher in Tennessee, 137 Bethel Church, organization of, 75 Bible, influence of, among Negroes, 266-272