character of Banneker, 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 Netherlands, 135;
encourage the trade, 136;
settlement on the Delaware, 312.

Earl, John, his connection with the Negro 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, machinery, and missionaries to
Africa, 32;
conduct in the Ashantee war, 38, 41, 42;
treaty with Ashantee, 42;
founds a colony in Sierra Leone, 86;
all slaves declared free on reaching British soil, 86;
declares slave-trade piracy, 87;
establishes 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 Caesar, 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 resolutions against slavery,
327.

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

Federal Constitution, proceedings of convention to frame the, 417.

Ferguson, Dr., describes character of the inhabitants of Sierra Leone,
90-93.

Folger, Elisha, captain of ship "Friendship," sued for recovery of a
slave, 231.

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

Fox, Geor