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 14; in Mississippi, 67, 90; ignorance of proprietor, 90; the most profitable one visited, described, 193; the manager and overseers, 194; arrangements for the slaves, 195; their rate of increase, 209; indiscriminate intercourse, 209; statistics of, 236.

Planters, characteristics of, i., 18, 19, 137, 276, 343;  comfortless living of, in Eastern Texas, ii., 10, 14;   Creole, in Louisiana, 46;   their passion for increasing their negro stock, 48;   life of, compared with that of men of equal property in New York, 48;   conversation with a nervous planter, 152;   hospitality of, in Mississippi, 163;   general character of those of the South, 230, 272. Plough-girls, ii., 201. Polk, Bishop, his description of slavery in the Red River county, ii., 213, note. Poor whites in Virginia, i., 81, 95;  their condition worse than that of the slaves, 83;   their reluctance to do the work of slaves, 112;   degraded condition of, in the turpentine forest, 188;   their belief in witchcraft, 189;   of South Carolina, 231;   trading with them injurious to the negroes, 252;   girls employed in the cotton-mills at Columbia, 273;   in Eastern Texas, their dishonesty, 372;   engaged in iron mining, ii., 115;   in Mississippi, 196;   feeling of irritation against, 355. Preacher, Methodist, tales of "nigger" hunting by, ii., 122. Preachers, negro, i., 309. Presbyterian minister, employed by Georgia planters to instruct the blacks, ii., 215;  his opinions on slavery, 216 et seq.

Price-current of slaves at Richmond, Virginia, ii., 374.

Progress, comparative, of North and South, i., 25.

Pronunciation, effect of, on names, ii., 32.

Property aspect of slavery, ii., 183.

Privileged classes of the South, their condition and character, ii., 272; their assertion of the beneficence of slavery, 273; their two methods of vindicating it, 276; their claims to high-breeding and hospitality generally unwarranted, 282; instances of the opposite qualities, 315 et seq.; their revengeful disposition, 327.

Public worship in the South, provisions for, i., 259, 261.

Purchase of a plantation, a gambling operation, i., 321.

Quadroons at New Orleans, their beauty and healthiness, i., 294, 303; their cultivated tastes, 305; peculiar characteristics of their association with whites, 305.

Quakers, negro opinion of, ii., 37.

Racing on the Red River, i., 351.

Railroads, in Virginia, i., 38, 55; want of punctuality, 56, 141; in North Carolina, 161; disregard of advertised arrangements, 167; desirable improvements, 170; in South Carolina, 216; their superiority in Georgia, 272.

Raleigh (North Carolina), described, i., 170; desolate aspect of the country around, 171.

Rations of U. S. Army, compared with allowances to slaves, ii., 240.

Red River, cotton plantations on the, i., 13; preparations for a voyage up the, 343; supper and sleeping arrangements, 350; a good shot, 352.

Religion, want of reverence for, i., 262; ii., 89, 104, 220.

Religious condition of the South, i., 261; proportion of ministers to people, 261; rivalry and jealousy of different sects, 262; religious instruction to slaves objected to, ii., 214; general remarks on religious professions in the slaves, 220.

Religious service in a meeting-house in Georgia, i., 205; in a negro chapel at New Orleans, 308.

Remonstrance by South Carolina planters against religious instruction to negroes, ii., 214.

Revival among the slaves, ii., 222.

Rice plantation, a model one visited, i., 235; house servants and field-*hands, 236; negro-quarters, 237;