prohibits the importation of Negroes, 325;
debate on the discharge of Negroes from the army, 335;
action on the enlistment of Negroes, 355;
resolution to establish courts to decide cases of captured slaves,
370;
action of the, relative to Negroes captured at sea, 373;
discussion on the, Western territory, 415, 416;
last meeting, 416.

Cooke, Nicholas, governor of Rhode Island, letters to Washington on
the enlistment of Negroes, 346, 349.

Cornwallis, Lord, proclamation offering protection to fugitive
Negroes, 358.

Cox, Melville B., missionary to Monrovia, 98.

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 missionary, 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, relative 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 separate 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 Leicester, 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.,