, 117.

Ashantee Empire, described, 34;
wars of, 35, 37-39;
revolt in, 36;
troubles with England, 41, 42;
massacre of women, 42;
government, 44.

Asia, idols with Negro features in, 17;
traces of the race, 18.

Asychis, king of Egypt, 458.

Attucks, Crispus, advertised as a runaway slave, 330;
figures in the Boston Massacre, 330;
his death and funeral, 331;
letter to Gov. Hutchinson, 332.

Aviia, tribe in Africa, 51.

Aviro, Alfonso de, discovers Benin in Africa, 26.

Babel, the tower of, built by an Ethiopian, 453.

Babylon, description of, 454.

Bancroft, George, views on slavery, 206.

Banneker, Benjamin, astronomer and philosopher, 386;
farmer and inventor, 387;
mathematician, 388;
his first calculation of an eclipse, 389;
letter to George Ellicott, 389;
character of, 390;
his business transactions, 391;
verses addressed to, 392;
letter to Mrs. Mason, 392;
his first almanac, 393;
letter to Thomas Jefferson, 394;
accompanies commissioners to run the lines of District of Columbia,
397;
his habits of studying the heavenly bodies, 397;
his death, 398.

Baptist missionaries in Liberia, 101.

Barbadoes, Negro slaves exchanged for Indians, 174;
a slave-market for New-England traders, 181;
Rhode Island supplied with slaves from, 269.

Barrere, Peter, treatise on the color of the skin, 19.

Barton, Col. William, captures Gen. Prescott, 366.

Bates, John, a slave-trader, 269.

Belknap, Jeremy, remarks on the slave-trials in Massachusetts, 232.

Benin, a kingdom in Africa, supplies America with slaves, 26;
discovered by the Portuguese and colonized, 26;
the king contracts to Christianize his subjects for a white wife,
27;
the kingdom divided, and slave-trade suppressed, 28.

Berkeley, Sir William, opposed to education and printing, 132.

Bermuda Islands, slaves placed on Warwick's plantation, 118, 119;
Pequod Indians exchanged for Negroes at, 173.

Bernard, John, governor of the Bermudas, 118.

Beverley, Robert, correction of his History of Virginia, 116.

Bill, Jacob, a slave-trader, 269.

Billing, Joseph, sued by his slave Amos Newport, 229.

Blumenbach, Jean Frederic, opinion in regard to the color of the
skin, 19.

Blyden, Edward W., defines the term "Negro," 12;
president of Liberia Coll