Prichard, John C., varieties of the human race, 4.

  Prince, a Negro, assists in the capture of Gen. Prescott, 367.

  Protestant Episcopal Church establishes first mission at Sierra Leone,
      89;
    in Liberia, 100.

  Proteus, king of Egypt, 458.

  Psammetichus, king of Egypt, 455.

  Psammis, king of Egypt, 456.

  Pul, Africa, description of, 452.

  Quakers, opposed to slavery, 218;
    memorial of, against slavery in Pennsylvania, 313;
    the friends of the Negroes, 315;
    memorial to Congress relative to slavery, 439.

  Rameses, Miamun, king of Egypt, 458.

  Raffles, T. Stanford, his researches on the Negro race, 19.

  Reade, W. Winwood, describes patriarchal government of Africa, 55;
    beauty of the Negro, 60, 61;
    people of Sierra Leone, 87.

  Revere, Paul, Negroes placed in his charge at Castle Island, Mass.,
      377.

  Rhampsinitus, king of Egypt, 458.

  Rhode Island, slavery in, 262-281;
    colonial government, 262;
    Act of 1652 to abolish slavery not enforced, 262;
    Negroes and Indians prohibited the use of the streets, 264;
    impost-tax on slaves, 265;
    entertainment of slaves prohibited, 266;
    Negro slaves sold in, 269;
    supply of Negroes from Barbadoes, 269;
    vessels fitted out for the slave-trade, 269;
    value of Negro slaves, 269;
    list of militia-men, including white and black servants, 270;
    clandestine importations and exportations of passengers, Negroes,
      or Indian slaves prohibited, 371;
    masters of vessels required to report the names and number of
      passengers, 272, 274;
    penalties for violating the impost-tax law on slaves, 272;
    portion of the impost-tax on imported Negroes appropriated to
      repair streets of Newport, 273;
    disposition of the money raised by impost-tax, 275;
    slaves imported into, 276;
    impost-tax repealed, 277;
    manumission of aged and helpless slaves regulated, 277;
    Negro slaves rated as chattel property, 278;
    masters of vessels prohibited from carrying slaves out of, 278;
    importation of Negroes prohibited, 280;
    population from 1730-1774, 281;
    number of slaves in, 325;
    act emancipating slaves on joining the army, 347;
    protest against the enlistment of slaves, 348;
    Negro troops engaged in the battle of, 368;
    slave population in 1790, 436.

  Ricketts, Capt., services in the Ashantee war, 42.

  Roberts, J.J., president of Liberia, proclamation regarding
      passports, 106.

  Rockwell, Charles, describes Liberia, 96.

  Roman Catholics denied the right to appear as witnesses in Virginia,
      129;
    treatment of, in Maryland, 243;
    denounced by Oates, 144;
    suspected in New York, 160, 162, 164, 167.