Cuvier, Baron, varieties of the human form, 3.

  Cyrene, Africa, mentioned, 5;
    described, 452.

  Dahomey, a Negro kingdom of Africa, described, 28;
    women serve in the army, 29;
    laws, 30;
    invaded by King Akwasi, 35.

  Dalton, Richard, his slave reads Greek, 202.

  Davis, Hugh, a white servant, flogged in Virginia, for consorting
      with a Negro woman, 121.

  Deane, Thomas, mentioned, 196.

  Delaware, slavery in, 249-251;
    settled by Danes and Swedes, 249;
    slavery not allowed by the Swedes, 249;
    conveyed to William Penn, 249;
    granted a separate government, 249;
    slavery introduced, 249;
    first legislation on slavery, 250;
    law for the regulation of servants, 250;
    act restraining manumission of slaves, 250;
    number of slaves in 1715, 325;
    slave population in 1790, 436.

  Denmark, engaged in the slave-trade, 463.

  Denny, Thomas, representative of Leicester, Mass., instructed to vote
      against slavery, 225.

  Derham, James, a Negro physician of New Orleans, 400.

  Desbrosses, Elias, testimony in the Negro plot in New York, 1741, 165.

  “Desire,” ship built for the slave-trade, 174.

  Dodge, Caleb, of Beverly, Mass., sued by his slave, 231.

  Dorsey, Charles W., character of Banneker, the Negro astronomer, 390.

  Duchet, Sir Lionel, engaged in the slave-trade, 138.

  Dummer, William, proclamation against Negroes of Boston, 226.

  Dunmore, Lord, proclamation in regard to fugitive Negroes, 336;
    condemned by the Virginia convention, 341;
    his failure to enlist Negroes, 342.

  Dupuis, M., appointed English consul to the court of Ashantee, 40.

  Dutch man-of-war lands the first Negroes in Virginia, 118;
    engage in the slave-trade, 124;
    import slaves to New Netherlands, 135;
    encourage the trade, 136;
    settlement on the Delaware, 312.

  Earl, John, his connection with the Negro plot at New York, 163.

  East Greenwich, R.I., bridge built at, by Negro impost-tax, 275.

  Egmont, Earl of, opposed to slavery in Georgia, 319.

  Egypt, first settlers of, 6, 10;
    Negro and Mulatto races in, 14;
    slavery in, 17;
    Negro civilization imitated by, 22;
    the Ethiopian kings of, 454.

  Elizabeth, Queen, of England, encourages the slave-trade, 138.

  Elizabeth, N.J., police regulations, 286.

  England, suppresses the slave-trade, 28, 31;
    sends agricultural implements, machinery, and missionaries to
      Africa, 32;
    conduct in the Ashantee war, 38, 41, 42;
    treaty with Ashantee, 42;
    founds a colony in Sierra Leone, 86;
    all slaves declared free on