Rome, Negro civilization imitated by, 22.

  Rommes, John, charged with burglary at New York, 148;
    accused of being in the Negro plot, 153.

  Royal African Company, charter abolished, 41;
    ordered to send supply of slaves to New York, 140;
    has sole right to trade on the coast of Africa, 316.

  Royall, Jacob, imports Negro slaves into Rhode Island, 276.

  Ruffin, Robert, a slave of, declared free for revealing plot of free
      Negroes in Virginia, 130.

  Rush, Benjamin, his opinion of James Derham the Negro physician, 401.

  Ryase, Andrew, accused of conspiracy in New York, 163.

  Sabachus, king of Ethiopia, 454.

  Saffin, John, reply to Judge Sewall’s tract, “The Selling of Joseph,”
      214.

  St. George’s Bay Company organized, 86;
    succeeded by the Sierra Leone Company, 86.

  Salem, Mass, representative of, instructed to vote against the
        importation of slaves, 220, 224;
    Negro conspiracy, 227;
    slaves sent to, 209, 376;
    petition of slaves in, 462;
    Negroes captured at sea advertised for sale, 372.

  Salem, Peter, a Negro soldier, his bravery at Bunker Hill, 364.

  Salisbury, Samuel Webster, author of an address on slavery, 1769,
      218.

  Saltonstall, Richard, petitions the General Court of Massachusetts
      against stealing Negroes for slaves, 181.

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

  Sargent, Nathaniel P., opinion, 1783, relative to South-Carolina
      Negroes, 381.

  Savage, Samuel P., letter, 1763, in regard to South Carolina Negroes,
      377.

  Sayle, William, commissioned governor of North Carolina, 302.

  Schultz, John, testimony in the Negro plot at New York, 1741, 463.

  Scotland, a Negro slave liberated in 1762, 403.

  Scott, Bishop, letter on the government of Liberia, 99.

  “Seaflower,” ship, arrives at Newport, R.I., from Africa, with slaves,
      269.

  Seba, Africa, description of, 452.

  Sesach, king of Egypt, 454.

  Sesostris, king of Egypt, 458.

  Sethon, king of Egypt, 454.

  Sewall, Jonathan, letter to John Adams on the emancipation of slaves,
      207.

  Sewall, Joseph, sermon on the fires in Boston, 1723, 226.

  Sewall, Samuel, protests against rating Negroes with cattle, 187;
    his hatred of slavery, 210;
    publishes his tract “The Selling of Joseph,” 210;
    father of the anti-slavery movement in Massachusetts, 217;
    letter to Addington Davenport on the murder of Smith’s slave, 1719,
     461.

  Shaftesbury, Earl of, in favor of introducing slavery into Georgia,
      322.