History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
George Washington Williams
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  • Quakers,
    • opposed to slavery, [218];
    • memorial of, against slavery in Pennsylvania, [313];
    • the friends of the Negroes, [315];
    • memorial to Congress relative to slavery, [439].
  • Rameses, Miamun, king of Egypt, [458].
  • Raffles, T. Stanford, his researches on the Negro race, [19].
  • Reade, W. Winwood,
    • describes patriarchal government of Africa, [55];
    • beauty of the Negro, [60], [61];
    • people of Sierra Leone, [87].
  • Revere, Paul, Negroes placed in his charge at Castle Island, Mass., [377].
  • Rhampsinitus, king of Egypt, [458].
  • Rhode Island,
    • slavery in, [262-281];
    • colonial government, [262];
    • Act of 1652 to abolish slavery not enforced, [262];
    • Negroes and Indians prohibited the use of the streets, [264];
    • impost-tax on slaves, [265];
    • entertainment of slaves prohibited, [266];
    • Negro slaves sold in, [269];
    • supply of Negroes from Barbadoes, [269];
    • vessels fitted out for the slave-trade, [269];
    • value of Negro slaves, [269];
    • list of militia-men, including white and black servants, [270];
    • clandestine importations and exportations of passengers, Negroes, or Indian slaves prohibited, [371];
    • masters of vessels required to report the names and number of passengers, [272], [274];
    • penalties for violating the impost-tax law on slaves, [272];
    • portion of the impost-tax on imported Negroes appropriated to repair streets of Newport, [273];
    • disposition of the money raised by impost-tax, [275];
    • slaves imported into, [276];
    • impost-tax repealed, [277];
    • manumission of aged and helpless slaves regulated, [277];
    • Negro slaves rated as chattel property, [278];
    • masters of vessels prohibited from carrying slaves out of, [278];
    • importation of Negroes prohibited, [280];
    • population from 1730-1774, [281];
    • number of slaves in, [325];
    • act emancipating slaves on joining the army, [347];
    • protest against the enlistment of slaves, [348];
    • Negro troops engaged in the battle of, [368];
    • slave population in 1790, [436].
  • Ricketts, Capt., services in the Ashantee war, [42].
  • Roberts, J.J., president of Liberia, proclamation regarding passports, [106].
  • Rockwell, Charles, describes Liberia, [96].
  • Roman Catholics
    • denied the right to appear as witnesses in Virginia, [129];
    • treatment of, in Maryland, [243];
    • denounced by Oates, [144];
    • suspected in New York, [160], [162], [164], [167].
  • Rome, Negro civilization imitated by, [22].
  • Rommes, John,
    • charged with burglary at New York, [148];
    • accused of being in the Negro plot, [153].
  • Royal African Company,
    • charter abolished, [41];
    • ordered to send supply of slaves to New York, [140];
    • has sole right to trade on the coast of Africa, [316].
  • Royall, Jacob, imports Negro slaves into Rhode Island, [276].
  • Ruffin, Robert, a slave of, declared free for revealing plot of free Negroes in Virginia, [130].
  • Rush, Benjamin, his opinion of James Derham the Negro physician, [401].
  • Ryase, Andrew, accused of conspiracy in New York, [163].
  • Sabachus, king of Ethiopia, [454].
  • Saffin, John, reply to Judge Sewall's tract, "The Selling of Joseph," [214].
  • St. George's Bay Company
    • organized, [86];
    • succeeded by the Sierra Leone Company, [86].
  • Salem, Mass,
    • representative of, instructed to vote against the importation of slaves, [220], [224];
    • Negro conspiracy, [227];
    • slaves sent to, [209], [376];
    • petition of slaves in, [462];
    • Negroes captured at sea advertised for sale, [372].
  • Salem, Peter, a Negro soldier, his bravery at Bunker Hill, [364].
  • Salisbury, Samuel Webster, author of an address on slavery, 1769, [218].
  • Saltonstall, Richard, petitions the General Court of Massachusetts against stealing Negroes for slaves, [181].
  • Sandwich, Mass, representative of, instructed to vote against slavery, [225].
  • Sargent, Nathaniel P., opinion, 1783, relative to South-Carolina Negroes, [381].
  • Savage, Samuel P., letter, 1763, in regard to South Carolina Negroes, [377].
  • Sayle, William, commissioned governor of North Carolina, [302].
  • Schultz, John, testimony in the Negro plot at New York, 1741, [463].
  • Scotland, a Negro slave liberated in 1762, [403].
  • Scott, Bishop, letter on the government of Liberia, [99].
  • "Seaflower," ship, arrives at Newport, R.I., from Africa, with slaves, [269].
  • Seba, Africa, description of, [452].
  • Sesach, king of Egypt, [454].
  • Sesostris, king of Egypt, [458].
  • Sethon, king of Egypt, [454].
  • Sewall, Jonathan, letter to John Adams on the emancipation of slaves, [207].
  • Sewall, Joseph, sermon on the fires in Boston, 1723, [226].
  • Sewall, Samuel,
    • protests against rating Negroes with cattle, [187];
    • his hatred of slavery, [210];
    • publishes his tract "The Selling of Joseph," [210];
    • father of the anti-slavery movement in Massachusetts, [217];
    • letter to Addington Davenport on the murder of Smith's slave, 1719, [461].
  • Shaftesbury, Earl of, in favor of introducing slavery into Georgia, [322].
  • Sharp, Granville, one of the founders of Sierra Leone colony, [86].
  • Sherbro, mission district, Western Africa, described, [460].
  • Shinga, queen of Congo, 55
  • Shishak, king of Ethiopia, [454].
  • Shodeke, king of Yoruba, Africa, [31].
  • Siam, negro idols in, [17].
  • Sicana, chief of the Kaffir tribe, a Christian and a poet, [80].
  • Sierra Leone,
    • sends colony to Yoruba, Africa, [32];
    • discovered, [85];
    • Negro colony founded, [86],67;
    • attacked by French squadron, [87];
    • England takes possession of, [87];
    • population, [88], [90];
    • trade, [88];
    • Christian missions at, [89],90;
    • languages of colony, [90];
    • character of the inhabitants described by Gov. Ferguson, [90-93];
    • slaves from, sold at Hispaniola, [138].
  • Sierra Leone Company,
    • organized, [86],
    • objects of, [87].
  • Simon, a negro, bears the cross of Jesus, [5].
  • Slavery,
    • Hopkins's Bible views of, [7], [8];
    • in Egypt, [17],
    • in Africa, [25-27],
    • Lord Manfield's decision in the Sommersett case, [85];
    • colonization, the solution of, [97];
    • abolished in Liberia, [104], [105];
    • weaker tribes of Africa, chief source of, [109];
    • introduced in Virginia, [115], [116], [118];
    • made legal in Virginia, [123], [124];
    • growth of, in Virginia, [133];
    • growth in New York, [134];
    • sanctioned by the English, [138];
    • New York laws, [139];
    • made legal in New York, [140];
    • in Massachusetts, [172-237];
    • established, [175], [179];
    • first statute establishing, in United States, [177];
    • sanctioned by the church and courts, [178];
    • made hereditary in Massachusetts, [179];
    • growth of, in Massachusetts, [183];
    • recognized in England, [203];
    • act to abolish in Massachusetts, [204];
    • prohibitory legislation against, [220-225];
    • first legislation in Maryland, [235];
    • established by statute, [240];
    • increased in Maryland, [247];
    • introduced in Delaware, [249];
    • first legislation on, [250];
    • Indian and Negro, legalized in Connecticut, [259];
    • in New Jersey, [282];
    • established in South Carolina, [289];
    • perpetual, [290], [291];
    • in New Hampshire [309];
    • memorial against, in Pennsylvania, [313];
    • prohibited in Georgia, [316];
    • Gov. Oglethorpe's opinion on, [316];
    • discussion on the admission of, in Georgia, [318-322];
    • established in Georgia, [322];
    • Washington prevents resolutions against, [327];
    • legislation against, demanded, [403];
    • act against, in Massachusetts, [405];
    • progress of, during the Revolution, [411];
    • as a political and legal problem, [412];
    • recognized under the new government of United States, [414];
    • attempted legislation against, [415];
    • advocated by the Southern States, [418];
    • speeches delivered in the convention at Philadelphia on, [420];
    • in the Federal Congress, [427];
    • extinction of, in Massachusetts, [429];
    • Franklin's address for the abolition of, [431];
    • memorials to Congress for the abolition of, [432], [437];
    • bill for the gradual extinction of, in New York, [440];
    • firmly established, [441].
  • Slaves,
    • social condition of white and black, [16];
    • the lower class of negroes, [47];
    • Lord Mansfield's decision in the Sommersett case, [85], [86];
    • declared free on reaching British soil, [86];
    • introduced in America, [115];
    • first introduced in Virginia, [116], [118];
    • on Somer Islands, [118];
    • number of, in Virginia, [119], [120], [132], [133];
    • prohibition against, [121];
    • special tax on female, [122], [123];
    • sold for tobacco, [122];
    • laws of Virginia in regard to, [123-125];
    • act repealed declaring them real estate, [125];
    • duty on, [126], [127];
    • purchased in Maryland and Carolina to evade the tax, [128];
    • tax on sales of, in Virginia, [128];
    • reduced, [128];
    • repealed, [128];
    • revived, [128];
    • traffic in, encouraged in Virginia, [128];
    • no political or military rights, [128], [129];
    • laws in Virginia, [129], [130];
    • value fixed on, when executed, [129];
    • laws of Virginia in regard to freedom of, [130];
    • presented to clergymen, [131];
    • prohibition against instructing, [132];
    • denied education, [132];
    • introduced in New York, [134];
    • West India Company trade in, [135];
    • manumitted in New York, [135];
    • children of the latter held as, [135];
    • imported from Brazil to New York, [136];
    • exchanged for tobacco, [136];
    • intermarry in New York, [137];
    • New York to have constant supply, [140];
    • Act to regulate, [140], [141];
    • Act to baptizse, [140];
    • against the harboring of, [141], [148];
    • forbidden the streets in New York, [141];
    • Negro riot, [143];
    • Negro plot, [144-171];
    • executed, [154], [161];
    • burned, [157];
    • Negroes exchanged for Indians, [173];
    • Indians sent to Bermudas, [173];
    • imported from Barbadoes to Massachusetts, [174];
    • ship "Desire" arrives with, [174], [176];
    • attempt to breed, in Massachusetts, [174];
    • sold in Massachusetts, [175];
    • issue of female, the property of their master, [180];
    • marriage of, [180], [191], [192];
    • sold at Barbadoes and West Indies, [181];
    • number in Massachusetts, [183], [184];
    • tax on, [185];
    • rated as cattle, [187], [188], [196];
    • denied baptism, [189];
    • marriage-ceremony, [192];
    • verdict awarded to a slave in Massachusetts, [204];
    • number in Boston, [205];
    • emancipated, [206];
    • executed in Massachusetts, [226];
    • transported and exchanged for small negroes, [226];
    • sue for freedom in Massachusetts, [228-232];
    • emancipated by England, [231];
    • slave-code of Maryland, [246];
    • laws against manumission of, [246], [250];
    • introduced in Connecticut, [252];
    • purchase and treatment of, [253];
    • persons manumitting to maintain them, [254];
    • commerce with, prohibited, [255];
    • importation of, prohibited, [259], [261];
    • impost-tax on, in Rhode Island, [265];
    • entertainment of, prohibited, [266];
    • letter of the board of trade relative to, [267];
    • Rhode Island supplied with, from Barbadoes, [269];
    • slaves sold in Rhode Island, [269];
    • value of, [269];
    • clandestine importation and exportation of, prohibited, [271];
    • Act relative to freeing Mulatto and Negro, in Rhode Island, [277];
    • rated as chattel property, [278];
    • masters of vessels prohibited from carrying Negro out of Rhode Island, [280];
    • importation of, prohibited, [280];
    • allowed trial by jury, in New Jersey, [283];
    • impost-tax on, [286], [287];
    • prohibited from joining militia, [288];
    • regarded as chattel property in South Carolina, [292];
    • branded, [294];
    • life of, regarded as of little consequence, [296];
    • education of, prohibited, [298], [300];
    • overworking of, prohibited, [298];
    • insurrection, [299];
    • enlistment of, [300];
    • masters compensated for the loss of, [301];
    • rights of, controlled by the master in North Carolina, [304];
    • emancipation of, prohibited, [307];
    • New Hampshire opposed to the importation of, [309];
    • ill treatment of, prohibited, [311];
    • duration of, in New Hampshire, [311];
    • tax on, imported into Pennsylvania, [314], [315];
    • petition for freedom of, denied, [314];
    • number of slaves in the colonies 1715 and 1775, [325];
    • arrival of, at Virginia, from Jamaica, [328];
    • severe treatment of, modified, [329];
    • the Boston Massacre, [330];
    • in the Continental army, [333], [335];
    • excluded from the army, [335];
    • allowed to re-enlist, [337];
    • Lord Dunmore's proclamation freeing, [336];
    • join the British army, [339];
    • prohibited from enlisting in Connecticut, [343];
    • Rhode Island emancipates, on joining the army, [347];
    • protest against the same, [348];
    • masters of enlisted, recompensed, [349];
    • serve in the army with white troops, [352];
    • Act to enlist, in New York, [352];
    • efforts to enlist, in South Carolina, [357];
    • treatment of, by Cornwallis, [358];
    • exchanged for merchandise, [358];
    • disposal of recaptured, [374], [376], [379];
    • recaptured, sent to Boston, [376];
    • list of recaptured, [377];
    • held as personal property, [381], [384];
    • education of, prohibited, [385];
    • sale of, advertised, [403], [408];
    • in Massachusetts petition for freedom, [404];
    • rights of, limited in Virginia, [409];
    • who served in the army emancipated, [410];
    • promised their freedom in New York, [411];
    • impost-tax on, introduced in Federal Congress, [427];
    • lawsuits instituted by, in Massachusetts, [430];
    • number of, in United States, 1790, [436];
    • law for the return of fugitive, [438];
    • introduction of, prohibited into the Mississippi Territory, [440];
    • importation of, prohibited in Georgia, [440];
    • condition of, in Massachusetts, [461];
    • petition of, in Boston, [462];
    • Massachusetts laws in regard to, [463].
  • Slave-trade,
    • commenced at Benin, Africa, [26];
    • natives of Africa engage in, [27];
    • suppressed by England, [28], [31];
    • at Yoruba, Africa, [31];
    • declared piracy by England, [87];
    • abolished in Liberia, [104], [105];
    • earliest commerce for slaves between Africa and America, [115];
    • introduced first in Virginia, [116], [118];
    • Dutch engage in the, [124], [135];
    • tax on the subjects of Great Britain in the, [127];
    • encouraged in Virginia, [128];
    • with Angola, Africa, [134];
    • encouraged by the Dutch, [135];
    • sanctioned by the English, [138];
    • encouraged by Queen Elizabeth, [138];
    • growth in New York, [140];
    • slave-market erected in New York, [142];
    • Indians exchanged for Negroes, [173];
    • in New England, [174];
    • ship "Desire" built for the, [174];
    • arrives with cargo of slaves, [174], [176];
    • on the coast of Guinea, [180];
    • increased in Massachusetts, [184];
    • abolished by England, [231];
    • bill for the suppression of, in Massachusetts, [235];
    • sanctioned in Rhode Island, [265], [273];
    • vessels fitted out for the, [269];
    • slave-market at Charleston, S.C., [299];
    • the situation of South Carolina favorable to the, [302];
    • progress during the Revolution, [402];
    • discussion in Congress on the restriction of the, [434];
    • act against the foreign, [438].
  • Slew, Jenny, a slave, sues for her freedom, [228].
  • Smeatham, Dr., one of the founders of the Sierra Leone colony, [86].
  • Smith, Hamilton, antiquity of the Negro race, [18].
  • Smith, Samuel, murders his Negro slave, [461].
  • Smith, William, volunteers to prosecute the Negroes in New York, [151], [158], [166].
  • Sommersett, James,
    • a Negro slave, brought to England and abandoned by his master, [85], [205];
    • discharged, [206].
  • Sorubiero, Margaret, connected with the New-York Negro plot, 1741, [147], [152], [153].
  • South Carolina,
    • slaves purchased in, to evade the tax, [128];
    • slavery in, [289-301];
    • receives two charters from Great Britain, [289];
    • Negro slaves in, [289];
    • slavery legislation, [289];
    • slavery established, [289];
    • perpetual bondage of the Negro, [290], [291];
    • slaves regarded as chattel property, [292];
    • trial of slaves, [292];
    • increase of slave population, [292];
    • growth of the rice-trade, [292];
    • trade with Negroes prohibited, [293];
    • conduct of slaves regulated, [293];
    • punishment of slaves, [294];
    • branded, [294];
    • life of slaves regarded as of little consequence, [296];
    • fine for killing slaves, [296];
    • education of slaves prohibited, [298], [300];
    • permitted to be baptized, [298];
    • inquiry into the treatment of slaves, [298];
    • overworking of slaves prohibited, [298];
    • hours of labor, [298];
    • slave-market at Charleston, [299];
    • Negro insurrection, [299];
    • whites authorized to carry fire-arms, [300];
    • enlistment of slaves, [300];
    • Negroes admitted to the militia service, [300];
    • masters compensated for the loss of slaves, [301];
    • few slaves manumitted, [301];
    • little legislation on slavery from 1754-1776, [301];
    • effect of the threatened war with England, [301];
    • number of slaves in 1715 and 1775, [325];
    • efforts to raise Negro troops, [355];
    • Negroes desert from, [355];
    • recapture of Negroes from the British, [376];
    • slave population, 1790, [436].
  • Spain
    • engaged in the slave-trade, [31];
    • her colonies in the West Indies to be furnished with Negroes, [237].
  • Stanley, Henry M., description of a journey through Africa, [72].
  • Staten Island, N.Y., a Negro regiment to be raised there, [342].
  • Stephens, Thomas,
    • favors the introduction of slavery in Georgia, [319];
    • reprimanded, [320].
  • Stewart, Charles, owner of the Negro slave James Sommersett, [205].
  • Stone, S.C., a Negro insurrection at, [299].
  • Swain, John, suit to recover a slave, [231].
  • Swan, James, advocate of liberty for all, [204].
  • Swedes, settle on the Delaware River, [312].
  • Tacudons, king of Dahomey, [28].
  • Tarshish, Africa, description of, [452].
  • Taylor, Comfort, sues a slave for trespass, [278].
  • Teage, Collin, missionary to Liberia, [101].
  • Tembandumba, queen of the Jagas, [56].
  • Tharaca, king of Egypt, [454].
  • Thethmosis, king of Egypt, [459].
  • Thomas, John, letter to John Adams, 1775, on the employment of Negroes in the army, [337].
  • Thompson, Capt, of ship "Nautilus," arrives at Sierra Leone with Negroes, [86].
  • Timans, second king of Egypt, [454].
  • Tutu Osai, king of Ashantee, [34].
  • "Treasurer," ship,
    • sails to West Indies for Negroes, [116];
    • arrives at Virginia, [117].
  • "Tyrannicide," armed vessel, re-captures Negroes, [376].
  • Uchoreus, king of Egypt, [459].
  • Undi, African chief, [50].
  • United States,
    • condition of the Colored population before the war of 1861, [96];
    • first statute establishing slavery in, [177];
    • slave population, 1715 and 1775, [325];
    • confederation of the, [374];
    • treaty with England, [382];
    • the Tory party in favor of slavery, [413];
    • the Whigs the dominant party in the Northern States, [414];
    • slavery recognized under the new government of the, [414];
    • anti-slavery agitation in, [414];
    • plan for the disposal of the Western Territory, [416];
    • proceedings of Federal Convention, [417];
    • slave population in 1790, [436].
  • United-States Congress,
    • action on the disposal of recaptured Negroes, [374];
    • first session at New York, 1789, [426];
    • proceedings, [427];
    • memorials to, for the abolition of slavery, [432], [437];
    • discussion in, on the restriction of the slave-trade, [433];
    • prohibits the introduction of slaves into the Mississippi Territory, [440].
  • Upton, Samuel and William, emancipate their father's slave, [207].
  • Ury, John,
    • his connection with the New-York Negro plot, 1741, [160], [162], [163], [166];
    • executed, [169].
  • Utrecht, the treaty of, to provide Negroes for the Spanish West Indies, [236].
  • Van Twiller, Wouter,
    • charged with neglect of public affairs in New Netherlands, [249];
    • owner of Negro slaves, [250].
  • Varick, Cæsar, charged with burglary at New York, [148].
  • Varnum, Gen. J.M., letter to Washington on the enlistment of Negroes, [346].
  • Vaughan, Col. James, Legislature of Rhode Island refund tax on two child slaves imported by, [276].
  • Vermont,
    • slave population, 1790; [436]
    • admitted into the Union, [436].
  • "Victoria," ship, captures British privateer with Negroes, [376].
  • Virginia,
    • slavery in, [115-133];
    • slaves first introduced, [116];
    • number of, [119];
    • forced on the colony, [119];
    • the first to purchase slaves, [119];
    • women purchased in England and sent to, [119];
    • number of slaves, [119], [120], [132], [133];
    • population, [120];
    • Assembly pass prohibition against Negroes, [121];
    • slavery legalized, [123];
    • Indians declared slaves, [124], [125];
    • Assembly protest against the repeal of the Act declaring Negroes real estate, [125], [126];
    • impose duty on slaves and servants imported, [126], [127];
    • tax on slaves sold, [128];
    • reduced, [128], repealed, [128];
    • revived, [128];
    • prohibit Catholics, Indians, and Negro slaves to appear as witnesses, [129];
    • pass act to value slave when executed, [129];
    • threatened revolt of the free Negroes, [130];
    • Act in regard to the freedom of slaves, [130];
    • number of slaves in 1715 and 1775, [325];
    • arrival of slaves in 1775, [328];
    • purchaser of the same reproved, [328];
    • instructions to delegation to Congress relative to the abolition of slavery, [328];
    • Lord Dunmore's proclamation freeing slaves, [336];
    • Negroes join the British army, [339], [352];
    • declaration of convention against Dunmore's proclamation, [341];
    • number of slaves in Cornwallis's army, [358];
    • rights of slaves limited, [409];
    • slaves who served in the army emancipated, [410];
    • slave population, 1790, [436].
  • Walklin, Thomas, testimony in the Sommersett case, [205].
  • Warren, Joseph, oration on human liberty, [333].
  • Warwick, Earl of, slaves on his plantation at the Bermudas, [116], [118].
  • Washburn, Emory, views on the slavery laws of Massachusetts, [179].
  • Washington, George,
    • acknowledges verses written by Phillis Wheatley [200], [201];
    • presents Virginia resolutions of 1774 against slavery, [327];
    • takes command of the army, [334];
    • forbids the enlistment of Negroes, [334];
    • instructed to discharge all Negroes and slaves in the army, [335];
    • order of, against Negro enlistments, [336];
    • letter to Congress on admitting Negroes to the army, [337];
    • letter to Joseph Reed on Lord Dunmore's proclamation, [341];
    • letter to Gov. Cooke, [345];
    • letter to Henry Laurens, on the arming of the Negroes, [353];
    • letter to John Laurens on the failure to enlist Negroes in the South, [360];
    • letter to Sir Guy Carleton relative to Negroes, [381];
    • to Gen. Putnam in regard to a Negro in the army claimed by his owner, [384];
    • president of the Federal Convention, [417].
  • Watson, Capt., arrives at Norfolk, Va., with slaves, [328].
  • Wayne, Anthony, letter to Lieut.-Col. Meigs relative to Negroes captured by him, [375].
  • Wesleyan Methodists establish mission at Sierra Leone, [90].
  • West India Company,
    • trade in slaves, [135];
    • children of manumitted Negroes held as slaves by the, [135];
    • cost of the government of New Netherland to the, [136];
    • encourage commerce in slaves, [137];
    • slaves in New York the property of the, [139].
  • West Indies,
    • Negroes captured and made slaves, [117], [118];
    • slaves sold at, [181];
    • England furnishes Negroes to the, [237].
  • Western Territory,
    • plan for the disposal of the, [416];
    • slave population, 1790, [436].
  • Wheatley, Phillis,
    • an African poetess, [197];
    • visits England, [198];
    • publishes her poems, [199];
    • marries John Peters, [200];
    • death of, [200];
    • poem to Washington, [200];
    • Washington's letter of acknowledgment, [201].
  • Whipple, John, sued by Jenny Slew, a slave, [228].
  • Whitefield, Rev. George, his plantation and Negroes in Georgia, [321].
  • Williams, George W.,
    • orations on "The Footsteps of the Nation," "Early Christianity in Africa," [111];
    • first colored graduate from Newton Seminary, [111];
    • ordination poem by Rev. Dr. Abbott, [111].
  • Wilson, D.A., principal of school at Liberia, [100].
  • Wilson, Jacob, on African languages, [67].
  • Wilkinson, Gardiner,
    • discovers a Theban tomb with Negro scenes, [15];
    • condition of white and black slaves, [16].
  • Willson, Capt. John, charged with exciting slaves, [226].
  • Windsor, Thomas, master of ship "Seaflower," arrives at Newport, R.I., with slaves from Africa, [269].
  • Winter, Sir William, a slave-trader, [138].
  • Worcester, Mass, representative instructed to vote against slavery, [220].
  • York, Duke of, conveys Delaware to William Penn, [249].
  • Yoruba, Africa,
    • Negro kingdom, [31];
    • slave trade stopped, [31].
  • Zerah, king of Ethiopia, [454].