41 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA.
2223 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C.
Application made for entry as second class mail matter at the Postofficeat Lancaster, Pa.
The study of the history of the Negroes of Cincinnati is unusuallyimportant for the reason that from no other annals do we get such strikingevidence that the colored people generally thrive when encouraged by theirwhite neighbors. This story is otherwise significant when we consider thefact that about a fourth of the persons of color settling in the State ofOhio during the first half of the last century made their homes in thiscity. Situated on a north bend of the Ohio where commerce breaks bulk,Cincinnati rapidly developed, attracting both foreigners and Americans,among whom were not a few Negroes. Exactly how many persons of color werein this city during the first decade of the nineteenth century is not yetknown. It has been said that there were no Negroes in Hamilton County in1800.1 It is evident, too, that the real exodus of free Negroes andfugitives from the South to the Northwest Territory did not begin prior to1815, although their attention had been earlier directed to this sectionas a more desirable place for colonization than the shores of Africa.2As the reaction following the era of good feeling toward the Negroesduring the revolutionary period had not reached its climax free personsof color had been content to remain in the South....