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Abolition, effect of low prices of cotton in promoting, i., 201; extent of the agitation to remote districts, ii., 37; abolitionist sentiments of a slave-*owner in Mississippi, 98; feeling in favour of, in North Carolina, 131.

Abolitionists, danger of poor whites becoming, ii., 357; literature of, 358.

Advantage (supposed) of slave-labour in cultivating cotton and tobacco, ii., 252.

Advertisements for runaway negroes, i., 157; of slaves for sale, ii., 22.

Acadians, or poor French habitans in Louisiana, i., 338; ii., 33.

Adams, Governor, on the want of education for the poor, ii., 293.

African races, character of, compared with the Teutonic, ii., 221.

Agriculture, scientific, on a farm on James River, i., 52; wretched implements used in North Carolina, 172; successful cultivation of the sugar-cane, 322; on a Mississippi plantation, ii., 201; decay of, in Virginia, 303; in Slave and Free States, 367.

Alabama, appearance of the country, i., 274; "reasons" for making Montgomery the capital, ii., 112; women getting out iron ore, 115; picture of decay by one of her statesmen, 297.

Alabama River, voyage down the, i., 275; number of so-called landings, 275; mode of loading cotton, 275; Irishmen cheaper than niggers, 276.

Albemarle, proportion of slaves to whites, i., 116.

Alexandria (Louisiana), yellow fever at, i., 357; unenviable reputation of, 357.

Alligators, ii., 24; dangers of their holes, 29.

Amalgamation, i., 307.

Americans in Texas, ii., 101.

'American Agriculturist,' quoted, i., 116.

Annexation of Cuba, its effect on the sugar manufacture of Louisiana, ii., 50; on the African slave-trade, 51.

Apparatus used in sugar manufacture, i., 329.

Aptness of negroes for learning, ii., 70; for mechanical occupations, 78.

Association of whites with coloured people, i., 168, 169, note; the quadroon society of New Orleans, 305.

Aristocrats, "swell heads," of Mississippi, ii., 156, 166.

Auction, sale of slaves by, at Richmond, i., 50; ii., 372.

Aversion to labour, difficulty in over-*coming the negro's, ii., 192.

Bacon raising, ii., 176.

Bals masqués at New Orleans, i., 304.

Barton, Dr., on the advantages of slavery, ii., 277, note.

Bee-hunting, ii., 117.

Big woods, ii., 29.

Bill of fare of an hotel at Memphis, ii., 57.

Blacksmith, an independent, ii., 8.

Boarding-house at Washington, i., 28.

Boat-songs of the negroes on the steam-*boats, i., 347.

Books, dangerous, ii., 358.

Brazos bottoms, cotton plantations on the, i., 14.

Breeding slaves for sale in Virginia, i., 57; early period at which they have children, ii., 80.

Brooks, P. S., ii., 348.