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.

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.
    figured in a Theban tomb, 15, 16;
    political and social condition, 16;
    the Sphinx a shrine of, 17;
    idols, 17, 18;
    origin of color and hair, 19-21;
    primitive civilization, 22;
    decline, 24;
    kingdoms, 26, 28, 31;
    engage in the slave trade, 27;
    women in the army, 29;
    laws, religion, 30;
    different tribes at war, 30-40;
    war with England, 41-43;
    the Negro type, 45-48;
    physical and mental character affected by climate, 46, 47, 385,
        448;
    longevity, 46;
    slaves the lower class, 47;
    habits, 48;
    susceptible to Christianity, 48;
    idiosyncrasies of the, 50;
    patriarchal government, 50, 54;
    villages, 51, 52;
    pursuits 51;
    architecture, 51, 53;
    women as rulers, 55, 56;
    priests, 55;
    laws, 56, 57;
    marriage, 57, 58;
    status, 58, 59;
    nine feet in height, 59;
    beauty of the, 60, 61;
    warfare, 61, 62;
    agriculture, 62, 63;
    mechanic arts, 63-65;
    languages, 66-70, 90;
    literature, 75-80;
    religion, 81-84, 89, 90;
    free, leave for England, 86;
    colony of, at Sierra Leone, 86;
    serve in the British army, 87;
    their condition in America, 96;
    found colony at Liberia, 95;
    first importance of, 109;
    military abilities, 110;
    early Christianity, 111;
    earliest importation to America, 115;
    in Virginia, 116, 118;
    number of, in Virginia, 119, 120;
    prohibition against, 121;
    tax on female, 122, 123;
    law of Virginia declares them slaves, 123, 124;
    repeal of the Act declaring them real estate, 125;
    duty on slaves in Virginia, 126-128;
    traffic encouraged in Virginia, 128;
    no political or military rights in Virginia, 128, 129;
    denied the right to appear as witnesses, 129;
    revolt of free, in Virginia, 130;
    pay taxes, 131;
    in the military service, 131;
    intermarriage of, prohibited, 131;
    denied education, 133;
    children of manumitted, made slaves, 135, 136;
    not allowed to hold real estate in New York, 142;
    earliest mention of, in Massachusetts, 173;
    held in perpetual bondage, 178;
    condition of free, in Massachusetts, 194, 196;
    importation of, not so profitable as white servants, 208;
    Act encouraging the importation of, into Maryland, 241;
    condition of free, in Maryland, 247;
    limited lights of free, 259, 308, 315;
    prohibited the use of the streets in Rhode Island, 264;
    military employment of, 324;
    excluded from the Continental Army, 335;
    allowed to re-enlist, 337;
    in Virginia join the British Army, 339;
    cautioned against joining the latter, 340;
    serve in the army with white troops in Massachusetts, 352;
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