2.

Latrobe, J.H.B., one of the founders of the colony at Cape Palmas,
Liberia, 95.

Laurens, Henry, letter to Washington on arming of the Negroes of
South Carolina, 353.

Laurens, John, endeavors to raise Negro troops in South Carolina, 356;
sails for France, 359;
letters to Washington on his return, urging the enlistment of
Negroes, 360.

Lawrence, Major Samuel, commands a company of Negro soldiers, 366.

Lechmere, Richard, sued by his slave, 230.

Lee, Gen. Charles, captured by the British, 366.

Leicester, Mass., representative of, instructed to vote against
slavery, 225.

Liberia, founded by Colored people from Maryland, 95;
population, 95, 97, 102;
refuge for Colored people, 96;
native tribes, 97, 98;
Christian mission founded, 98;
government, 99;
a republic, 100;
school and college established, 100;
churches, 101;
trade, 103;
first constitution, 103;
slavery and slave-trade abolished, 104;
treaty with England in regard to slavery, 104;
testimony of officers of the Royal Navy in regard to the
slave-trade at, 105;
revolt in, subdued, 106, 107.

Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, letter to Gov. Rutledge of South Carolina,
on the enlistment of Negroes, 359.

Livingstone, David, describes African wars, 50, 51;
status of the Africans, 58, 59;
skilful in the mechanic arts, 63, 64.

Locke, John, constitution prepared by, adopted in North Carolina, 302;
local governments of the South organised on his plan, 414.

Lodge, Abraham, volunteers to prosecute the Negroes in New York, 151.

Lodge, Sir Thomas, a slave-trader, 138.

Lowell, John, sues for the freedom of a slave in Newburyport, Mass.,
231.

Lybia, Africa, description of, 452.

MacBrair, R.M., author of a Mandingo grammar, 70.

McCarthy, Charles, appointed governor-general of Western Africa, 41;
war with the Ashantees, 41;
his defeat and death, 42.

Madison, James, letter to Joseph Jones, on the arming of the Negroes,
359.

Mahoney, Lieut., his description of a Negro idol at Calanee, 17.

Mandji, a village in Africa described, 51.

Mankind, unity of, 1, 7, 108, 443;
varieties of, 3.

Mansfield, Lord, decision in the case of the Negro Sommersett, 85,
205.

Marlow, John, affidavit in the Sommersett case, 206.

Maryland, appropriates money for the colo