New York City, settled by the Dutch, 134;
    growth of slavery under the Holland government, 134;
    children of manumitted Negroes made slaves, 135, 136;
    slaves imported from Brazil, 136;
    captured by the English, 138;
    laws on slavery, 139;
    identical with Massachusetts, 139;
    Gov.  Dongan arrives, 139;
    General Assembly meet, 139;
    proclamation against the harboring of slaves, 141;
    slaves forbidden the streets after nightfall, 141;
    slave-market erected, 142;
    Negro riot, 143;
    Negro plot, 144-171;
    house of Robert Hogg robbed, 145;
    population, 145;
    fire at Fort George, 145;
    fires in, 146;
    crew of Spanish vessel adjudged slaves, 146;
    charged with firing houses, 146;
    house of John Hughson, resort for Negroes, 147;
    act against entertaining slaves, 148;
    council meet, request governor to offer reward for incendiaries, 149;
    Negroes deny all knowledge of the fires and plot, 149;
    Supreme Court convened, 149;
    trial of Negroes, 149;
    Negroes hanged, 154;
    fast observed in, 154;
    Negroes arrested, 155;
    chained to a stake, and burned, 157;
    proclamation granting freedom to conspirators who would confess, 159;
    Spanish Negroes sentenced to be hung, 161;
    Hughson executed, 161;
    Negroes hanged, 161, 169;
    thanksgiving, 169;
    Rev. John Ury executed, 169;
    arrests for conspiracy, 170;
    first session of Congress held at, in 1789, 426.

  Nicoll, Benjamin, volunteers to prosecute the Negroes in New York, 151.

  Nineveh, the city of, founded, 9-10.

  Noddle’s Island, Mass., slaves on, 176.

  Non-Importation Act passed by Congress, 325.

  Norfolk, Va., arrival of slaves at, 328.

  North Carolina, slaves purchased in, to evade the tax, 128;
    slavery in, 302-308;
    situation of, favorable to the slave-trade, 302;
    the Locke Constitution adopted, 302;
    William Sayle commissioned governor, 303;
    Negro slaves eligible to membership in the church, 304;
    Church of England established in, 304;
    rights of Negroes controlled by their masters, 304;
    act respecting conspiracies, 305;
    form of trying Negroes, 307;
    ill treatment of Negroes, 307;
    emancipation of slaves prohibited, 307;
    limited rights of free Negroes, 308;
    number of slaves in, 325;
    slave population in 1790, 436.

  Nott, John C., antiquity of the Negro, 15;
    his social condition, 16.

  Oates, Titus, his connection with the Popish plot, 144.

  Obongos of Africa described, 46.

  Ockote, Osai, king of Ashantee, his war with the English, 43.

  Oglethorpe, John, first governor of Georgia, opposed to slavery, 316.