a, 115;
first introduced in Virginia, 116, 118;
on Somer Islands, 118;
number of, in Virginia, 119, 120, 132, 133;
prohibition against, 121;
special tax on female, 122, 123;
sold for tobacco, 122;
laws of Virginia in regard to, 123-125;
act repealed declaring them real estate, 125;
duty on, 126, 127;
purchased in Maryland and Carolina to evade the tax, 128;
tax on sales of, in Virginia, 128;
reduced, 128;
repealed, 128;
revived, 128;
traffic in, encouraged in Virginia, 128;
no political or military rights, 128, 129;
laws in Virginia, 129, 130;
value fixed on, when executed, 129;
laws of Virginia in regard to freedom of, 130;
presented to clergymen, 131;
prohibition against instructing, 132;
denied education, 132;
introduced in New York, 134;
West India Company trade in, 135;
manumitted in New York, 135;
children of the latter held as, 135;
imported from Brazil to New York, 136;
exchanged for tobacco, 136;
intermarry in New York, 137;
New York to have constant supply, 140;
Act to regulate, 140, 141;
Act to baptizse, 140;
against the harboring of, 141, 148;
forbidden the streets in New York, 141;
Negro riot, 143;
Negro plot, 144-171;
executed, 154, 161;
burned, 157;
Negroes exchanged for Indians, 173;
Indians sent to Bermudas, 173;
imported from Barbadoes to Massachusetts, 174;
ship "Desire" arrives with, 174, 176;
attempt to breed, in Massachusetts, 174;
sold in Massachusetts, 175;
issue of female, the property of their master, 180;
marriage of, 180, 191, 192;
sold at Barbadoes and West Indies, 181;
number in Massachusetts, 183, 184;
tax on, 185;
rated as cattle, 187, 188, 196;
denied baptism, 189;
marriage-ceremony, 192;
verdict awarded to a slave in Massachusetts, 204;
number in Boston, 205;
emancipated, 206;
executed in Massachusetts, 226;
transported and exchanged for small negroes, 226;
sue for freedom in Massachusetts, 228-232;
emancipated by England, 231;
slave-code of Maryland, 246;
laws against manumission of, 246, 250;
introduced in Connecticut, 252;
purchase and treatment of, 253;
persons manumitting to maintain them, 254;
commerce with, prohibited, 255;
importation of, prohibited, 259, 261;
impost-tax on, i