Bancroft, George, views on slavery, 206.

  Banneker, Benjamin, astronomer and philosopher, 386;
    farmer and inventor, 387;
    mathematician, 388;
    his first calculation of an eclipse, 389;
    letter to George Ellicott, 389;
    character of, 390;
    his business transactions, 391;
    verses addressed to, 392;
    letter to Mrs. Mason, 392;
    his first almanac, 393;
    letter to Thomas Jefferson, 394;
    accompanies commissioners to run the lines of District of Columbia,
      397;
    his habits of studying the heavenly bodies, 397;
    his death, 398.

  Baptist missionaries in Liberia, 101.

  Barbadoes, Negro slaves exchanged for Indians, 174;
    a slave-market for New-England traders, 181;
    Rhode Island supplied with slaves from, 269.

  Barrere, Peter, treatise on the color of the skin, 19.

  Barton, Col.  William, captures Gen. Prescott, 366.

  Bates, John, a slave-trader, 269.

  Belknap, Jeremy, remarks on the slave-trials in Massachusetts, 232.

  Benin, a kingdom in Africa, supplies America with slaves, 26;
    discovered by the Portuguese and colonized, 26;
    the king contracts to Christianize his subjects for a white wife,
      27;
    the kingdom divided, and slave-trade suppressed, 28.

  Berkeley, Sir William, opposed to education and printing, 132.

  Bermuda Islands, slaves placed on Warwick’s plantation, 118, 119;
    Pequod Indians exchanged for Negroes at, 173.

  Bernard, John, governor of the Bermudas, 118.

  Beverley, Robert, correction of his History of Virginia, 116.

  Bill, Jacob, a slave-trader, 269.

  Billing, Joseph, sued by his slave Amos Newport, 229.

  Blumenbach, Jean Frederic, opinion in regard to the color of the
      skin, 19.

  Blyden, Edward W., defines the term “Negro,” 12;
    president of Liberia College, 102.

  Board of Trade, circular to the governors of the English colonies,
      relative to Negro slaves, 267;
    reply of Gov.  Cranston of Rhode Island, 269.

  Bolzius, Henry, favors the introduction of slavery into Georgia, 321.

  Boombo, a Negro chief of Liberia, 106.

  Borden, Cuff, a Negro slave in Massachusetts, sued for trespass and
      ordered to be sold to satisfy judgment, 278.

  Boston, a slave-trader from, 181;
    Negro prohibited from employment in manufacturing hoops, 196;
    number of slaves in, 205;
    instructs the representatives to vote against the slave-trade, 221;
    Negroes charged with firing the town, 226;
    articles for the regulation of Negroes passed, 226;
    massacre in, 1770, 330;
    Negroes on Castle Island, 376, 378.

  Bowditch, Thomas Edward, commissioner to treat with the Ashantees,
      39.