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 Epidemic of 1820, in the Southern States, i., 258; admirable conduct of the slaves, 259.

Epitaphs in negro burial-ground, i., 226.

Excitement of blacks, at their religious meetings, i., 259, 309.

Extravagance and wastefulness of the blacks, i., 98.

"Eyebreaker," black gnat so called, its attacks on cattle, ii., 41.

False assertion of the superior material condition of Southern slaves to that of Northern and European labourers, ii., 242.

Famine of 1855, its effect in New York, ii., 243; extracts from Southern newspapers during, 248; how felt in the Slave States, 248.

Farm, in Maryland, described, i., 32; on James River, 52; description of a, cultivated by free labour, 92; employment of Irishmen, 95.

Farm-lands, comparative value in Slave and Free States, i., 11, 35, 114.

Farmer, conversation with a free-labour, in Tennessee, on slavery, ii., 140.

"Fast man" in Mississippi, ii., 154.

February weather in Georgia, i., 227.

Feliciana, beauty of the region, ii., 143.

Field-hands on a rice plantation, classification of, i., 246.

Filthiness of negroes, ii., 200.

Fires in the open air, negro fondness for, i., 215.

Fisheries in North Carolina, i., 149; interesting and novel operations, 150.

Fleas, mode of destroying by an ingenious negro, i., 104, note.

Food, supplied to the slaves in Virginia, i., 101; on a Georgia rice plantation, 244; on a Mississippi plantation, ii., 179, 195; generally in the South, 240, 241.

Frambœsia, or Yaws, slaves peculiarly subject to, i., 123.

Free Labour, plantation in Virginia cultivated by, i., 92.

Fruit-trees, supplied by a peddler, ii., 74.

Funeral, negro, in Richmond, i., 43; ludicrous features of, 44.

General Gabriel's rebellion, i., 42.

Georgia, winter climate of, i., 227; "show plantations," 230; strange appearance and language of the rustics, 231; statistics of seaboard district of, ii., 295, 385; worn-out cotton lands, 296.

Germans, their patient industry and docility as labourers, i., 33, 195; in Eastern Texas, ii., 19; in Western Texas, 96; immigration to Texas, 102; their influence, 102; schools, 103; conversation with a persevering German, 164; at Natchez, 171; superior quality of the cotton picked by, 263; cultivation of cotton by, in Texas, 266.

Glue-manufacturer, his reasons for employing whites, i., 194.

Grades of coloured people, i., 294.

Graniteville Manufacturing Company, of South Carolina, improvement in the condition of their operatives, ii., 286.

Grave-yard for negroes, i., 224.

Gregg, Mr. W. H., quoted, ii., 286, 287, 301.

Griscom, Mr. T. R., on slave labour, i., 133, 135.

Grog-shops, their evil effects on the slaves, i., 251; homicide of a negro, 253, note.

Guano, the Hon. W. Newton on the beneficial effects resulting from its introduction, i., 101.

Hammond, Governor, on the influence of cotton, i., 7; on slavery, ii., 228.

Handbill of a North Carolina innkeeper, i., 163.

Harper, Chancellor, on the tendency of slavery to elevate the female character, i., 222; his 'Address,' quoted, ii., 278.

'Harper's Weekly,' quoted, ii., 158.

'Hernando Advance,' quoted ii., 147.

Highlands, feelings of inhabitants of, with regard to slavery, ii., 129, 131, 135; their dislike of negro competition, 137; their manners and phraseology, 137; general ignorance, 138.

Hiring a saddle-horse, i., 61; lucid directions for an intricate journey, 62.