Biddle University, the establishment of, 203 Binga, Anthony, a useful minister in Richmond, 240 Bishop, Bishop, election of, 106; schismatic connection of, 106-107 Bishop, Josiah, a Negro Baptist preacher among whites, 54-55 Bishops of England, interested in proselyting the Negroes, 6-7 Black Code, 5 Black Harry, a pioneer Methodist Negro preacher, 56-58 "Black Laws" of Ohio, efforts to have them repealed, 236 Blackburn, Gideon, master of John Gloucester, 66-67 Book Concern of the A. M. E. Church, established, 102 Booker, J. A., an educator, 206; opinion of, 302 Boone, L. W., a preacher of power in North Carolina, 240 Boston, the Negro Baptists in, 121 Boucher, Jonathan, the words of, 23-24 Boulden, J. F., in politics, 227-228; religious efforts of, 227 Bowen, J. W. E., a prominent candidate for bishop, 299 Bowling, R. H., a preacher of renown in Norfolk, 282 Boyd, R. H., head of the National Baptist Publishing House, 261, 297 Bradby, a social welfare minister, 277 Braxton, P. H. A., religious effort of, 228-229; in politics, 229 Bray, Dr. Thomas, the mission of, 10 British, favorable attitude of, 41 Brooks, Bishop Sampson, a popular social preacher, 278 Brooks, Philip, interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Brooks, Walter H., quotation from, 41-42; the education of, 217; attack of, on white Baptists, 261 Brooks, W. H., a Methodist minister in New York, 277 Brown, Marcus, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Brown, Morris, a pioneer African Methodist preacher in South Carolina, 76; elected bishop of A. M. E. Church, 101 Brown, William, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78 Brown, W. W., popular pastor in New York, 278 Browne, W. W., a minister in business, 267 Bryan, Andrew, efforts of, in Savannah, 43, 47-53; persecution of, 49-52 Bryan, Jonathan, master of Andrew Bryan, 49; his friend, 50 Bryan, Sampson, brother and co-worker of Andrew Bryan, 49-50 Bryant, Ira T., a publisher, 297 Bryant, William C., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Bryce, John, a preacher to Negroes, 160, 164 Bull, Henry, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Bumstead, Horace, an educator, 215 Burling, William, interest of, in Negroes, 18 Burns, Francis, a Negro made bishop to Africa by the Methodists, 189 Burroughs, N. H., the achievements of, 206 Burrows, pastor of the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 87 Burt, Thomas, a supporter of the work in Savannah, 48 Buxton, Fowell, a comment of, 27 Caesar, a pioneer Negro Baptist preacher, 137