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- 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- impost-tax repealed, [277];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
- 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,
- 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,
- 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].