n Rhode Island, 265;
entertainment of, prohibited, 266;
letter of the board of trade relative to, 267;
Rhode Island supplied with, from Barbadoes, 269;
slaves sold in Rhode Island, 269;
value of, 269;
clandestine importation and exportation of, prohibited, 271;
Act relative to freeing Mulatto and Negro, in Rhode Island, 277;
rated as chattel property, 278;
masters of vessels prohibited from carrying Negro out of Rhode
Island, 280;
importation of, prohibited, 280;
allowed trial by jury, in New Jersey, 283;
impost-tax on, 286, 287;
prohibited from joining militia, 288;
regarded as chattel property in South Carolina, 292;
branded, 294;
life of, regarded as of little consequence, 296;
education of, prohibited, 298, 300;
overworking of, prohibited, 298;
insurrection, 299;
enlistment of, 300;
masters compensated for the loss of, 301;
rights of, controlled by the master in North Carolina, 304;
emancipation of, prohibited, 307;
New Hampshire opposed to the importation of, 309;
ill treatment of, prohibited, 311;
duration of, in New Hampshire, 311;
tax on, imported into Pennsylvania, 314, 315;
petition for freedom of, denied, 314;
number of slaves in the colonies 1715 and 1775, 325;
arrival of, at Virginia, from Jamaica, 328;
severe treatment of, modified, 329;
the Boston Massacre, 330;
in the Continental army, 333, 335;
excluded from the army, 335;
allowed to re-enlist, 337;
Lord Dunmore's proclamation freeing, 336;
join the British army, 339;
prohibited from enlisting in Connecticut, 343;
Rhode Island emancipates, on joining the army, 347;
protest against the same, 348;
masters of enlisted, recompensed, 349;
serve in the army with white troops, 352;
Act to enlist, in New York, 352;
efforts to enlist, in South Carolina, 357;
treatment of, by Cornwallis, 358;
exchanged for merchandise, 358;
disposal of recaptured, 374, 376, 379;
recaptured, sent to Boston, 376;
list of recaptured, 377;
held as personal property, 381, 384;
education of, prohibited, 385;
sale of, advertised, 403, 408;
in Massachusetts petition for freedom, 404;
rights of, limited in Virginia, 409;
who served in the army emancipated, 410;
promised their freedom in New York, 411;
impost-tax on, introduced