Silkworm (note), 106.

Slaves, negro, first brought to Virginia, 48.
  employed in raising tobacco, 48.
  planters grow rich by, 48.
  all the colonies buy, 48, 259. 
  Washington’s, 135. 
  Jefferson beloved by his, 184. 
  Jefferson’s feeling in regard to, 184.
  how employed on cotton, 179.
  and the cotton-gin, 180.
  gradually freed at the North, 259.
  their condition unchanged at the South, 259.
  feeling at the South about, 259.
  feeling at the North about, 259.
  question of holding, divides the states, 259. 
  Lincoln in regard to increasing number of, 259, 260.
  and the Civil War, 259, 260.
  freed by President Lincoln, 260.
  effect of emancipation of, on the Union, 261.

Smith, John, early life and adventures of, 37.
  sold as a slave, 37.
  starts for Virginia, 37.
  arrested on the voyage on a false charge, 38.
  is tried and acquitted, 39.
  court grants him damages, 39.
  what he hoped to do in Virginia, 38.
  what he did for the sick, 39.
  prevents desertion, 39.
  goes in search of the Pacific, 41.
  is captured by Indians, 41.
  how he used his pocket compass, 41.
  brought before Powhatan, 41. 
  Pocahontas saves his life, 42, and note in A Short List of Books.
  made governor of Jamestown, 43.
  his opinion of the gold-diggers, 43.
  compels Indians to let settlers have corn, 43.
  makes all the settlers work, 44.
  his cold-water cure for swearing, 45.
  meets with a terrible accident, 46.
  goes back to England, 46.
  returns and explores country north of Virginia, 46.
  names it New England, 46.
  death and burial of, 46.
  what he did for Virginia, 47.
  his books and maps, 47.
  is called the “Father of Virginia,” 47.
  writes Captain Henry Hudson, 53.
  summary of, 51.

South, the, in the Civil War, 260.
  great progress of, since the war, 263.

Spaniards settle Florida, 30.
  are kept out of Georgia, 107.

Squanto (Skwon’to), how he helped the Pilgrims, 68, 69.

Squaws (note), 152.

Standish, Myles, an English soldier in Holland, 64.
  goes to America with the Pilgrims, 64.
  explores Cape Cod, 65.
  lands at Plymouth Rock, 66.
  was nurse as well as soldier, 67.
  goes to meet Massasoit, 69.
  feared by the Indians, 70.
  escorts the Pilgrims to church, 70.
  has a fight with the Indians, 71.
  saves Plymouth from attack by Indians, 71.
  what else he did for the Pilgrims, 72.
  what he left at his death, 72.
  his monument, 72.
  summary of, 75.

Steamboat, Fulton’s, on the Hudson, 197.
  first at the West, 198, 199.
  effect of, on emigration, 199.

St. Mary’s, settlement at, 78.

Survey (note), 127.