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Professional-managerial class: blacks in, 972-73

in early nineteenth century, 530, 532

in 1830s, 607

and evangelical religion, 530

housing for, 373

in late nineteenth century, 966-85

neighborhoods for, 388, 389

in 1790s and early 1800s, 373, 375, 388, 389

and standards, 967-68

Progress and Poverty (George), 1092-93, 1094, 1099, 1207

Prohibition, 832, 838

Property: auction of confiscated Tory, 267-68

and blacks as property owners, 188, 391

and British occupation of New York, 250

and class issues, 518, 519

confiscation of Tory, 258, 281-83

and Dutch culture, 89-90

in early nineteenth century, 518, 519

in mid-nineteenth century, 817-18, 820

of municipal corporation, 836

and politics, 284

in post-revolutionary New York, 256, 258, 267-68, 281-83, 284

as qualification for public office, 256

as qualification for voting, 291, 328, 329-30, 512, 549

and ratification of Constitution, 291

restoration of abandoned, 258

in 1790s and early 1800s, 391

women as owners of, 284, 285

and women’s rights, 817-18, 820. See also Inheritance; Land; Landed interests; Real estate

Prospect Hall Hotel, 565

Prospect Heights, 718

Prospect Hill, 837, 933, 1078

Prospect Park, 236, 837, 933, 962, 972, 1135

Prospect Park Commission, 934

Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad, 1132

Prostitutes: annual revenues from, 807

banishment of, 185

Barnum bans, 815

blacks as, 1149

and British occupation of New York, 252

and class issues, 805, 807

in colonial New York, 144, 146, 151, 160, 174, 185

and crime, 1000

crusade against, 806-7

and dance halls, 816

demographics about, 804-5

in early nineteenth century, 483-85, 487, 534-1

growth in number of, 803-7

as highly paid, 805

in hotels, 814

and illegitimacy, 811

and interracialism, 484, 805

and Jewett murder, 535-41

in late nineteenth century, 957, 959, 983-84, 996, 1000, 1143, 1148, 1149, 1153, 1163

legality of, 807

male, 796, 1143

in mid-nineteenth century, 665, 774, 796, 803-7, 811, 815, 832, 846

and morality, 1163

in New Amsterdam, 34-35, 58

and Panic of 1857, 846

and police, 485, 807

and politicians, 807

in prison, 806

promenade of, 1149

reasons for being, 805

redeeming, 806

in revolutionary New York, 214, 229

and saloons, 484

in 1790s and early 1800s, 404, 406, 408

slaves as, 146

streetwalkers as, 807

and taverns, 805

and theater, 815

and wages, 483

as women’s issue, 983-84

and working class, 805, 806

“Protection,” 807

Protectionism, 307, 309, 853

Protestant Association, 546

Protestant Episcopal City Missionary Society, 531, 620

Protestant Episcopal Tract Society

Protestant Reformation Society, 546

Protestants: and abortion, 807

as anti-Catholic, 131

blacks as, 542

in Britain, 95-96, 776

and Civil War, 886, 894, 895

and Consolidation, 1227

in early nineteenth century, 481-82, 501, 503

in 1830s, 542, 543, 544, 546

in Fletcher’s administration, 97

and Glorious Revolution, 95-96

as immigrants, 129-30, 132, 133

in late nineteenth century, 1047, 1086, 1088, 1156-69

in mid-nineteenth century, 628, 630, 632, 633, 748, 752, 775, 776, 781, 783, 785

and morality, 1156-69

in New Amsterdam/New Netherland, 15-16, 21, 57

in 1790s and early 1800s, 380, 401

and working class, 481–82. See also Irish: as Protestants

Religion

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Providence, Rhode Island, 107

Provident Loan Society, 1188

Province Arms, 201

Provincial Congress: and arrest of royal officials, 226

Assembly replaced by, 224-25

assumes control of government, 223-24

and British return to New York, 232, 234

City Hall as headquarters of, 224-25

and Continental Congress, 227, 230

and Declaration of Independence, 232

delegates to, 225

and elections, 230-31

and formation of state government, 231, 256

ineptitude of, 230

intimidation of, 226

and Lee (Charles), 228

moves to White Plains, 232

pledge to obey, 224

problems of,