enlistment of Negroes and emancipation of slaves prohibited, 329;
    enlistment of Negroes opposed, 334, 351;
    mode of enlisting Negroes, 352;
    Negroes serve with white troops, 352;
    number of men furnished to the army, 353;
    act relative to captured Negroes, 370;
    sale of captured Negroes prohibited, 371;
    armed vessels from, recapture Negroes, 376;
    act relative to prisoners of war, 379;
    slaves petition for freedom, 404;
    act against slavery, 405;
    extinction of slavery, 429;
    lawsuits brought by slaves, 430;
    condition of slaves, 461.

  Maverick, Samuel, attempts to breed slaves in Massachusetts, 174.

  Maverick, Samuel, mortally wounded at the Boston Massacre, 331.

  Mede, Joseph, his statement in regard to Ham corrected, 10.

  Medford, Mass., representative of, instructed to vote against
      slavery, 225.

  Melville, John, his sermon on Simon mentioned, 6.

  Menes, first king of Egypt, 454.

  Meroe, Egypt, capital of African Ethiopia and chief city of the
      Negroes, 6.

  Methodist Episcopal Church, establishes a mission in Liberia, 98, 100.

  Methodist Missionary Society appropriate money for the mission at
      Monrovia, 98.

  Mifflin, Warner, presents a memorial to Congress in 1792 for the
      abolition of slavery, 437.

  Mills, James, missionary to Monrovia, 97;
    death, 97.

  Missah Kwanta, son of the king of Ashantee, sent to England as a
      hostage, 43.

  Mississippi, slavery in Territory of, prohibited, 1797, 440.

  Monroe, James, town of Monrovia named in honor of, 97.

  Monrovia, Africa, founded, 97;
    population, 97;
    Christian mission established, 98, 99.

  Moore, George H., his history of slavery in Massachusetts commended,
      173;
    mentioned, 180, 183;
    remarks on the bill to prohibit the importation of slaves from
      Africa, 224.

  Morton, Samuel G., the sphinx a shrine of the Negro, 17.

  Murphy, Edward, accused of conspiracy in New York, 163.

  Murray, Joseph, volunteers to prosecute the Negroes in New York, 151,
      158, 166.

  Mycerinus, king of Egypt, 458.

  “Nautilus,” ship arrives at Sierra Leone with colony of Negroes, 86.

  Nechao, king of Egypt, 455.

  Negro plot in New York City, 1741, 143-170.

  Negroes, members of the human family, 1, 5;
    descendants of Ham, 3, 8;
    represented in pictures of the crucifixion of Christ, 5;
    an Ethiopian eunuch becomes a Christian, 6;
    same race as Egyptian, 6;
    Cush an ancestor, 10;
    use of the term “Negro,” 12, 13;
    antiquity of the race, 14-19;
    early military service, 15;