History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 eBook

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History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 815 pages of information about History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1.
reaching British soil, 86;
    declares slave-trade piracy, 87;
    establishes a mission at Sierra Leone, 89;
    women sent to Virginia, 119;
    laws relating to slavery, 125;
    sanctions the slave-trade, 138-140, 463;
    courts decide in 1677 that a Negro slave is property, 190;
    slavery recognized in, 203;
    agrees to furnish Negroes to the West Indies, 236;
    treaty with United States, 382.

  Enoch, description of the city of, 453.

  Ethiopia, war with Caesar, 6;
    natives same race as Egyptians, 6;
    meaning of, 13;
    cities of, described, 453;
    kings rule Egypt, 454.

  Fairfax, Va., meeting at, in 1774, pass resolutions against slavery,
      327.

  “Fanny,” brig, arrives at Norfolk, Va., with slaves, 328.

  Federal Constitution, proceedings of convention to frame the, 417.

  Ferguson, Dr., describes character of the inhabitants of Sierra Leone,
      90-93.

  Folger, Elisha, captain of ship “Friendship,” sued for recovery of a
      slave, 231.

  Forbes, Archibald, mentions Africans nine feet in height, 59.

  Fox, George, views concerning slaves, 313.

  France engaged in the slave-trade, 463.

  Franklin, Benjamin, letter to Dean Woodward on the abolition of
      slavery, 327;
    address to the public on the abolition of slavery, 431.

  Friends, see Quakers.

  Fuller, Thomas, a Negro mathematician, 399.

  Gage, Thomas, refuses to sign the bill to prevent the importation of
      Negroes into Massachusetts, 235, 237.

  Gates, Gen. Horatio, his order not to enlist Negroes, 334.

  George III. in 1751 repeals the act declaring slaves real estate, 125.

  Georgia, slavery in, 316-323;
    colony of, established, 316;
    slavery prohibited in, 316, 317;
    discussion in regard to the admission of slavery, 318-322;
    clandestine importation of Negroes, 320;
    slavery established, 322;
    history of slavery, 322;
    number of slaves in 1715, 325;
    importation of slaves prohibited, 440;
    slave population in 1790, 436.

  Germantown, Penn., memorial of Quakers against slavery in 1688, 313.

  Glasgow, Scotland, a slave liberated in 1762, 463.

  Goddard, Benjamin, protests against enlisting Negroes in Grafton,
      Mass., 352.

  Godfrey family of South Carolina, killed by a Negro mob, 299.

  Gordon, William, letter on the emancipation of slaves, 402;
    deposed as chaplain of the legislature of Massachusetts, 409.

  Grafton, Mass., protest in 1778 against the enlistment of Negroes,
      352.

  Grahame, Judge Thomas, liberates Negro slave in Glasgow, Scotland,
      463.

  Gray, Samuel, killed at the Boston Massacre, 331.

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