Cranston, Samuel, letter to the board of
trade, relative to Negro slaves in Rhode
Island, 269.

Croker, John, testimony in the Negro

plot at New York, 168.

Crowther, Negro sold into slavery, 32; set
at liberty by the English, 33; fitted for
the ministry, returns to Africa as a mis-
sionary, 33.

Cuffe, John, sketch of, 202.

Cuffe, Paul, a distinguished Negro, 202.
Cush, ancestor of the Negro race, 10;
meaning of the term, 13.

Cushing, Nathan, his opinion, 1783, rela-
tive to the South-Carolina Negroes,
381.

'Cuvier, Baron, varieties of the human
form, 3.

Cyrene, Africa, mentioned, 5; described,
452.

DAHOMEY, a Negro kingdom of Africa,
described, 28; women serve in the
army, 29; laws, 30; invaded by King
Akwasi, 35.

Dalton, Richard, his slave reads Greek,

202.

Davis, Hugh, a white servant, flogged in
Virginia, for consorting with a Negro
woman, 121.

Deane, Thomas, mentioned, 196.
Delaware, slavery in, 249-251; settled by
Danes and Swedes, 249; slavery not
allowed by the Swedes, 249; conveyed
to William Penn, 249; granted a separ-
ate government, 249; slavery introduced,
249; first legislation on slavery, 250;
law for the regulation of servants, 250;
act restraining manumission of slaves,
250; number of slaves in 1715, 325;
slave population in 1790, 436.
Denmark, engaged in the slave-trade, 463.
Denny, Thomas, representative of Leices-

ter, Mass., instructed to vote against
slavery, 225.

Derham, James, a Negro physician of New
Orleans, 400.

Desbrosses, Elias, testimony in the Negro

plot in New York, 1741, 165.
"Desire," ship built for the slave-trade,
174.

Dodge, Caleb, of Beverly, Mass., sued by

his slave, 231.

Dorsey, Charles W., character of Banne-
ker, the Negro astronomer, 390.
Duchet, Sir Lionel, engaged in the slave-
trade, 138.

Dummer, William, proclamation against
Negroes of Boston, 226.

Dunmore, Lord, proclamation in regard to
fugitive Negroes, 336; condemned by
the Virginia convention, 341; his failure
to enlist Negroes, 342.

Dupuis, M., appointed English consul to
the court of Ashantee, 40.

Dutch man-of-war lands the first Negroes
in Virginia, 118; engage in the slave-
trade, 124; import slaves to New Neth-
erlands, 135; encourage the trade, 136;
settlement on the Delaware, 312.

EARL, JOHN, his connection with the Ne-
gro plot at New York, 163.

East Greenwich, R. I., bridge built at, by
Negro impost-tax, 275.

Egmont, Earl of, opposed to slavery in
Georgia, 319.

Egypt, first settlers of, 6, 10; Negro and
Mulatto races in, 14; slavery in, 17;
Negro civilization imitated by, 22; the
Ethiopian kings of, 454.

Elizabeth, Queen, of England, encourages
the slave-trade, 138.

Elizabeth, N.J., police regulations, 286.
England, suppresses the slave-trade, 28, 31;
sends agricultural implements, machine-
ry, and missionaries to Africa, 32; con-
duct in the Ashantee war, 38, 41, 42;
treaty with Ashantee, 42; founds a col-
ony in Sierra Leone, 86; all slaves de-
clared free on reaching British soil, 86;
declares slave-trade piracy, 87; estab-
lishes a mission at Sierra Leone, 89;
women sent to Virginia, 119; laws
relating to slavery, 125; sanctions
the slave-trade, 138-140, 463; courts
decide in 1677 that a Negro slave is
property, 190; slavery recognized in,
203; agrees to furnish Negroes to the
West Indies, 236; treaty with United
States, 382.

Enoch, description of the city of, 453.
Ethiopia, war with Cæsar, 6; natives

same race as Egyptians, 6; meaning of,
13; cities of, described, 453; kings rule
Egypt, 454.

FAIRFAX, Va., meeting at, in 1774, pass res-
olutions against slavery, 327.

44

Fanny," brig, arrives at Norfolk, Va.,
with slaves, 328.

Federal Constitution, proceedings of con-
vention to frame the, 417.

Ferguson, Dr., describes character of the
inhabitants of Sierra Leone, 90–93.
Folger, Elisha, captain of ship "Friend-
ship," sued for recovery of a slave,
231.

Forbes, Archibald, mentions Africans nine
feet in height, 59.

Fox, George, views concerning slaves,
313.

France engaged in the slave-trade, 463.
Franklin, Benjamin, letter to Dean Wood-
ward on the abolition of slavery, 327;
address to the public on the abolition of
slavery, 431.

Friends, see Quakers.

Fuller, Thomas, a Negro mathematician,
399.

GAGE, THOMAS, refuses to sign the bill to

prevent the importation of Negroes into
Massachusetts, 235, 237.

Gates, Gen. Horatio, his order not to en-
list Negroes, 334.

George III. in 1751 repeals the act declar-
ing slaves real estate, 125.
Georgia, slavery in, 316–323; colony of,
established, 316; slavery prohibited in,
316, 317; discussion in regard to the ad-
mission of slavery, 318-322; clandestine
importation of Negroes, 320; slavery es-
tablished, 322; history of slavery, 322;
number of slaves in 1715, 325; importa-
tion of slaves prohibited, 440; slave
population in 1790, 436.

Germantown, Penn., memorial of Quakers
against slavery in 1688, 313.

Glasgow, Scotland, a slave liberated in
1762, 463.

Goddard, Benjamin, protests against en-
listing Negroes in Grafton, Mass.,
352.
Godfrey family of South Carolina, killed
by a Negro mob, 299.

Gordon, William, letter on the emancipa-
tion of slaves, 402; deposed as chaplain
of the legislature of Massachusetts,
409.

Grafton, Mass., protest in 1778 against the
enlistment of Negroes, 352.

Grahame, Judge Thomas, liberates Negro
slave in Glasgow, Scotland, 463.
Gray, Samuel, killed at the Boston Massa-
cre, 331.

Greece, Negro civilization imitated by,

22.

Greene, Col. Christopher, commands a
Negro regiment in 1778 at battle of
Rhode Island, 368; his death, 369.
Greene, Gen. Nathanael, letters to Wash-
ington on the raising of a Negro regi-
ment, 342; on the enlistment of Negroes,
the British army, 359; at battle of Rhode
Island, 368.

Greenleaf, Richard, sued by his slave, 204,
231.

Guerard, Benjamin, governor of South

Carolina, letter to Gov. Hancock rela-
tive to slaves recaptured from the Brit-
ish, 380.

Guyot, Arnold H., opinion on the diversity
of the human race, 20.

HABERSHAM, JAMES, favors slavery in
Georgia, 318, 321.

Ham, the progenitor of the Negro race,
8; family of, 9, 11; founder of the Baby-
lonian empire, 9.

Hamilton, Alexander, letter to John Jay
on the enlistment of Negroes, 354; opin-
ion in regard to slaves captured by the
British, 381.

Hamilton, Dr., his connection with the
Negro plot at New York, 160.
Hancock, John, letter on the condition of
the South-Carolina Negroes recaptured
from the British, 378.

"Hannibal," sloop, Negroes captured
from, 372.

Harcourt, Col. William, captures Gen.
Charles Lee, 366.

Hessian officer, letter on the employment

of Negroes in the army, 343.
Hillgroue, Nicholas, engaged in the slave-
trade, 269.

Hispaniola, slaves from Sierra Leone sold
at, 138.

Hobby, Mr., Negro in the army claimed by,
384.

Hogg, Robert, a merchant of New York,

robbed by Negroes, 145.

Holbrook, Felix, petition of, for freedom,
133.

Holland, growth of slavery in New Neth-
erlands, 134; children of manumitted
Negroes held as slaves to serve the gov-
ernment of, 135; slaves exchanged for
tobacco, 136; engaged in the slave-
trade, 463.

Holt, Lord, his opinion that slavery was
unknown to English law, 203.
Hopkins, John H., views of slavery, 7, 8.
Hopkins, Samuel, necessity of employing

the Negroes in the American army, 338.
Horsmanden, Daniel, one of the judges in
the trial of the Negro plot at New York,
1741, 148.

Hotham, Sir Charles, testimony in regard
to the abolishment of slavery in Liberia,
105, 106.

Hughson, John, his tavern at New York a
resort for Negroes, 147; his connection

with the Negro plot, 147; trial, 152, 157;
sentenced to be hanged, 158; executed,
161.

Hughson, Sarah, her connection with the

New York Negro plot, 152; trial, 157;
respited, 164; testimony, 165, 166, 168.
Human race, the unity of, 443.
Humphreys, David, recruits a company of
colored infantry in Connecticut, 361.
Hutchinson, a commissioner to treat with
king of Ashantee, 39.

Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas, refuses to sign
bill to prevent the importation of slaves
from Africa, 223.

INDIANS, taxable, 122, 123; not treated as

slaves, 123; declared slaves, 124, 125;
denied the right to appear as witnesses,
129; act to baptize, 141; proclamation
against the harboring, 141; alarmed on
seeing a Negro, 173; exchanged for Ne-
groes, 173; sent to Bermudas, 173;

held in perpetual bondage, 178; mar
riage with Negroes, 180; introduction of,
as slaves, prohibited in Massachusetts,
186; importation of, prohibited, 259,
311, 314; slavery of, legalized, 259.
Ishogo villages in Africa described, 52.

JACKSONBURGH, S. C., Negro insurrection
at, 299.

Jamaica, slaves from, sold in Virginia, 328.
James, Gov., commissioner to treat with
king of Ashantee, 39.

James City, Va., buildings destroyed, 126.
Jameson, David, volunteers to prosecute
the negroes in New York, 151.
Japan, negro idols in, 17.
Jefferson, Thomas, author of instructions
to the Virginia delegation in Congress,
1774, on the abolition of slavery, 328;
letters to Dr. Gordon relative to the treat-
ment of Negroes in Cornwallis's army,
358; to Benjamin Banneker, 396; his
recommendation in regard to slavery in
the Western Territory, 416.

Jeffries, John P., declares there are no reli-
able data of the Negro race, 15.
Johnson, David, accused of conspiracy in
New York, 163.

Jones, William, his genealogy of Noah,

II.

Joseph, the selling of, a memorial by Sam-
uel Sewall, 210; answered by John
Saffin, 214.

Josselyn, John, describes attempt to breed
slaves in Massachusetts, 174.

KANE, WILLIAM, accused of conspiracy in
New York, 162; testimony of, in the
Negro plot, 162-164, 168.

Kench, Thomas, letters to the General

Assembly of Massachusetts on the en-
Jistment of Negroes, 350, 351.
Kendall, Capt. Miles, deputy governor of
Virginia, receives Negro slaves in ex-
change for supplies, 118; dispossessed
of the same, returns to England to seek
equity, 118; portion of the Negroes al-
lotted to him, 118; none of which he
receives, 119.

Kentucky, admitted into the Union, 437;
constitution revised, 441.

Keyser, Elizur, emancipates his slave,

207.

Knowls, John, confines James Sommersett
on board his ship "Mary and Ann,"
205.

Knox, Thomas, South Carolina, recaptured
slaves delivered to, 377.

Kudjoh Osai, king of Ashantee, 36.
Kwamina Osai, succeeds his father Kud-
joh as king of Ashantee, 36.

"LADY GAGE," a prize-ship with Negroes,
376.

Laing, Capt., his services in Ashantee,

42.

Latrobe, J. H. B., one of the founders of
the colony at Cape Palmas, Liberia,
95.

Laurens, Henry, letter to Washington on
arming of the Negroes of South Caro-
lina, 353.

Laurens, John, endeavors to raise Negro
troops in South Carolina, 356; sails for
France, 359; letters to Washington on
his return, urging the enlistment of Ne-
groes, 360.

Lawrence, Major Samuel, commands a
company of Negro soldiers, 366.

Lechmere, Richard, sued by his slave,
230.

Lee, Gen. Charles, captured by the Brit-
ish, 366.

Leicester, Mass., representative of, in-
structed to vote against slavery,
225.

Liberia, founded by Colored people from
Maryland, 95; population, 95, 97, 102;
refuge for Colored people, 96; native
tribes, 97, 98; Christian mission founded,
98; government, 99; a republic, 100;
school and college established, 100;
churches, 101; trade, 103; first consti-
tution, 103; slavery and slave-trade
abolished, 104; treaty with England in
regard to slavery, 104; testimony of offi-
cers of the Royal Navy in regard to the
slave-trade at, 105; revolt in, subdued,

106, 107.

Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, letter to Gov.
Rutledge of South Carolina, on the en-
listment of Negroes, 359.
Livingstone, David, describes African
wars, 50, 51; status of the Africans, 58,
59; skilful in the mechanic arts, 63,
64.

Locke, John, constitution prepared by,
adopted in North Carolina, 302; local
governments of the South organized on
his plan, 414.

Lodge, Abraham, volunteers to prosecute
the Negroes in New York, 151.
Lodge, Sir Thomas, a slave-trader, 138.
Lowell, John, sues for the freedom of a
slave in Newburyport, Mass., 231.
Lybia, Africa, description of, 452.

MACBRAIR, R. M., author of a Mandingo
grammar, 70.

McCarthy, Charles, appointed governor-
general of Western Africa, 41; war
with the Ashantees, 41; his defeat and
death, 42.

Madison, James, letter to Joseph Jones,
on the arming of the Negroes, 359.
Mahoney, Lieut., his description of a Ne-
gro idol at Calanee, 17.

Mandji, a village in Africa described,
51.

Mankind, unity of, 1, 7, 108, 443; varieties
of, 3.

Mansfield, Lord, decision in the case of
the Negro Sommersett, 85, 205.
Marlow, John, affidavit in the Sommersett
case, 206.

Maryland, appropriates money for the
colony at Cape Palmas, 96; slaves pur-
chased to evade tax, 128; slavery in,
238-248; under the laws of Virginia,
238; first legislation on slavery, 238;
population of, 238; slavery established
by statute, 240; Act passed encour-
aging the importation of Negroes and
slaves, 241; impost on Negroes, slaves,
and white persons imported into, 241;
duties on rum and wine, 243; treatment
of slaves and papists, 243; convicts im-
ported into, 243; convict trade con-
demned, 244; defended, 244; slave-code,
246; rights of slaves, 246; law against
manumission of slaves, 246; Negro pop-
ulation, 246, 247; white population,
247; increase of slavery, 247; number
of slaves in 1715, 325; Negroes enlist in
the army, 352; slave population in 1790,
436.
Maryland Colonization Society, found
colony of Negroes at Cape Palmas, Li-
beria, 95.

Mason, George, author of the Virginia
resolutions of 1774 against slavery,
327.

Mason, Susanna, addresses a poetical let-
ter to Benjamin Banneker, 392.
Massachusetts, slavery in, 172-237; earli-
est mention of the Negro in, 173;
Moore's history of slavery in, 173; Pe-
quod War the cause of slavery, 173;
slaves imported to, 174; ship "Desire "
arrives with slaves, 174, 176; slavery
established, 175; first statute establish-
ing slavery, 177; made hereditary, 179;
kidnapped Negroes, 180, 182; number
of slaves, 183, 184; tax on slaves, 185;
Negro population, 185; introduction of
Indian slaves prohibited, 186; Negroes
rated with cattle, 187, 188, 196; denied
baptism, 189; Act in relation to marriage
of Negro slaves, 191, 192; slave-mar-
riage ceremony, 192; condition of free
Negro, 194, 196; Act to abolish slavery,
204; slave awarded a verdict against his
master, 204; emancipation of slaves,
205; legislation favoring the importa.
tion of white servants, and prohibiting
the clandestine bringing-in of Negroes,
208; importation of Negroes not as
profitable as white servants, 208, 209;
prohibitory legislation against slavery,
220; proclamation against Negroes, 226;
slaves executed, 226; transported and
exchanged for small Negroes, 226;
slaves sue for freedom, 228-232; Ne-
groes petition for freedom, 233; bill
passed for the suppression of the slave-
trade, 234, 235; vetoed by Gov. Gage,
235; number of slaves in, 325, emanci
pation of slaves, 329; enlistment of
Negroes and emancipation of slaves
prohibited, 329; enlistment of Negroes
opposed, 334, 351; mode of enlisting
Negroes, 352; Negroes serve with white
troops, 352; number of men furnished
to the army, 353; act relative to cap-
tured Negroes, 370; sale of captured
Negroes prohibited, 371; armed vessels
from, recapture Negroes, 376; act rela-
tive to prisoners of war, 379; slaves
petition for freedom, 404; act against
slavery, 405; extinction of slavery, 429;
lawsuits brought by slaves, 430; condi-
tion of slaves, 461.

Maverick, Samuel, attempts to breed
slaves in Massachusetts, 174.
Maverick, Samuel, mortally wounded at
the Boston Massacre, 331.

Mede, Joseph, his statement in regard to
Ham corrected, 10.

Medford, Mass., representative of, in-
structed to vote against slavery,

225.

Melville, John, his sermon on Simon men-
tioned, 6.

Menes, first king of Egypt, 454.
Meroe, Egypt, capital of African Ethiopia
and chief city of the Negroes, 6.
Methodist Episcopal Church, establishes
a mission in Liberia, 98, 100.
Methodist Missionary Society appropriate
money for the mission at Monrovia,
98.

Mifflin, Warner, presents a memorial to
Congress in 1792 for the abolition of
slavery, 437.

Mills, James, missionary to Monrovia, 97 ;
death, 97.

Missah Kwanta, son of the king of Ashan-
tee, sent to England as a hostage,
43.

Mississippi, slavery in Territory of, prohib-
ited, 1797, 440.

Monroe, James, town of Monrovia named
in honor of, 97.

Monrovia, Africa, founded, 97; popula-
tion, 97; Christian mission established,
98, 99.

Moore, George H., his history of slavery
in Massachusetts commended, 173;
mentioned, 180, 183; remarks on the
bill to prohibit the importation of slaves
from Africa, 224.

Morton, Samuel G., the sphinx a shrine of
the Negro, 17.

Murphy, Edward, accused of conspiracy
in New York, 163.

Murray, Joseph, volunteers to prosecute
the Negroes in New York, 151, 158,
166.

Mycerinus, king of Egypt, 458.

"NAUTILUS," ship arrives at Sierra Leone
with colony of Negroes, 86.
Nechao, king of Egypt, 455.

Negro plot in New York City, 1741, 143–
170.