Christy, David, describes the colony of Liberia, 107.

  Cintra, Piedro de, discoverer of Sierra Leone, 85.

  Clinton, Sir Henry, proclamation concerning fugitive Negroes, 1779,
      357.

  Codman, John, poisoned by his slave, 226.

  Coleman, Elihu, author of “Testimony against making Slaves of Men,”
      318.

  Coney Island, N.Y., slave captured at, 343.

  Congo Empire, Shinga queen of, 55.

  Congress, see United-States Congress.

  Connecticut, slavery in, 252-261;
    Negro slaves introduced, 252;
    number of Negroes in 1680, 253;
    purchase and treatment of slaves and free persons, 253;
    persons manumitting slaves, to maintain them, 254;
    commerce with slaves prohibited, 255;
    punishment of insubordinate slaves, 256;
    social conduct regulated, 257;
    punished for using profane language, 258;
    number of slaves in 1730, 259;
    Indian slaves prohibited, 250;
    Indian and Negro slavery legalized, 259;
    limited rights of free Negroes, 259;
    Negro population in 1762, 260;
    importation of slaves prohibited, 261;
    number of slaves in 1715, 325;
    enlistment of Negroes prohibited, 343;
    enlisted, 345;
    a Colored company recruited by David Humphreys, 361;
    slave population in 1790, 436.

  Continental army, condition of the, 334;
    Negroes in the, 337;
    Negro regiment raised for the, 342;
    number of men supplied to the, 353;
    return of Negroes in 1778, 362.

  Continental Congress, prohibits the importation of Negroes, 325;
    debate on the discharge of Negroes from the army, 335;
    action on the enlistment of Negroes, 355;
    resolution to establish courts to decide cases of captured slaves,
        370;
    action of the, relative to Negroes captured at sea, 373;
    discussion on the, Western territory, 415, 416;
    last meeting, 416.

  Cooke, Nicholas, governor of Rhode Island, letters to Washington on
      the enlistment of Negroes, 346, 349.

  Cornwallis, Lord, proclamation offering protection to fugitive
      Negroes, 358.

  Cox, Melville B., missionary to Monrovia, 98.

  Cranston, Samuel, letter to the board of trade, relative to Negro
      slaves in Rhode Island, 269.

  Croker, John, testimony in the Negro plot at New York, 168.

  Crowther, Negro sold into slavery, 32;
    set at liberty by the English, 33;
    fitted for the ministry, returns to Africa as a missionary, 33.

  Cuffe, John, sketch of, 202.

  Cuffe, Paul, a distinguished Negro, 202.

  Cush, ancestor of the Negro race, 10;
    meaning of the term, 13.

  Cushing, Nathan, his opinion, 1783, relative to the South-Carolina
      Negroes, 381.