ply 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impost-tax repealed, 277;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 denied the right to appear as witnesses in Virginia,
129;
treatment of, in Maryland, 243;
denounced by Oates, 144;
suspected in New York, 160, 162, 164, 167.

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 o