Ophir, Africa, description of, 452.

  Opoko, Osai, king of Ashantee, 35.

  Osymandyas, king of Egypt, 458.

  Otis, James, speech in favor of freedom to the Negroes, 203.

  Parsons, Theophilus, his opinion on the existence of slavery in
      Massachusetts, 179, 180;
    decision in the case of Winchendon vs. Hatfield, 232.

  Pastorius, Francis Daniel, his memorial against slavery, 1688, 313.

  Payne, John, missionary bishop of Africa, 100.

  Pendleton, Edmund, letter to Richard Lee on the slaves of Virginia
      joining the British army, 339.

  Penn, William, Delaware conveyed to, 249;
    grants the privilege of separate government, 249;
    introduces bill for the regulation of servants, 314;
    opposed to slavery, 314.

  Pennsylvania, slavery in, 312-315;
    government organized, 312;
    Swedes and Dutch settlement, 312;
    governor of New York claims jurisdiction over, 312;
    first laws of, 312;
    memorial against slavery, 313;
    Penn presents bill for the better regulation of servants, 314;
    tax on imported slaves, 314;
    importation of Negroes and Indians prohibited, 314;
    petition for the freedom of slaves denied, 314;
    rights of the Negroes, 315;
    tax on Negroes and Mulatto slaves, 315;
    fears for the conduct of the slaves, 315;
    number of slaves in, 325;
    slave population in 1790, 436.

  Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery,
      address of the, 1789, 431.

  Pequod Indians captured in war exchanged for Negroes, 173;
    as slaves, 177.

  Peters, John, married to Phillis Wheatley, 200.

  Peters, Phillis, see Wheatley, Phillis.

  Pheron, king of Egypt, 458.

  Philadelphia, Federal Convention meet at, 417;
    Anti-slavery Convention held at, 438;
    see Pennsylvania.

  Phut, Africa, description of, 452.

  Pickering, Timothy, representative of Salem, Mass., instructed to
      vote against the importation of slaves, 220.

  Pinny, J.B., missionary to Liberia, 100.

  Pitcairn, John, killed at Bunker Hill by a Negro soldier, 364.

  Plant, Matthias, missionary of the Propagation Society in Mass., 189.

  Po, Fernando, locates Portuguese colony in Africa, 26.

  Poor, Salem, a Negro soldier, his bravery at Bunker Hill, 365.

  Popish plot in England concocted by Titus Gates, 144.

  Portugal, engages in the slave-trade, 26, 31, 463;
    locates colony at Benin, Africa, 26, 27.

  Prescott, Richard, captured by Lieut.-Col.  Barton, 366.

  Presbyterian Board of Missions establish missions in Liberia, 100.

  Price, Arthur, arrested for theft in New York, 152;
    testimony in the Negro plot, 152,154.