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.

  Sharp, Granville, one of the founders of Sierra Leone colony, 86.

  Sherbro, mission district, Western Africa, described, 460.

  Shinga, queen of Congo, 55

  Shishak, king of Ethiopia, 454.

  Shodeke, king of Yoruba, Africa, 31.

  Siam, negro idols in, 17.

  Sicana, chief of the Kaffir tribe, a Christian and a poet, 80.

  Sierra Leone, sends colony to Yoruba, Africa, 32;
    discovered, 85;
    Negro colony founded, 86,67;
    attacked by French squadron, 87;
    England takes possession of, 87;
    population, 88, 90;
    trade, 88;
    Christian missions at, 89,90;
    languages of colony, 90;
    character of the inhabitants described by Gov.  Ferguson, 90-93;
    slaves from, sold at Hispaniola, 138.

  Sierra Leone Company, organized, 86,
    objects of, 87.

  Simon, a negro, bears the cross of Jesus, 5.

  Slavery, Hopkins’s Bible views of, 7, 8;
    in Egypt, 17,
    in Africa, 25-27,
    Lord Manfield’s decision in the Sommersett case, 85;
    colonization, the solution of, 97;
    abolished in Liberia, 104, 105;
    weaker tribes of Africa, chief source of, 109;
    introduced in Virginia, 115, 116, 118;
    made legal in Virginia, 123, 124;
    growth of, in Virginia, 133;
    growth in New York, 134;
    sanctioned by the English, 138;
    New York laws, 139;
    made legal in New York, 140;
    in Massachusetts, 172-237;
    established, 175, 179;
    first statute establishing, in United States, 177;
    sanctioned by the church and courts, 178;
    made hereditary in Massachusetts, 179;
    growth of, in Massachusetts, 183;
    recognized in England, 203;
    act to abolish in Massachusetts, 204;
    prohibitory legislation against, 220-225;
    first legislation in Maryland, 235;
    established by statute, 240;
    increased in Maryland, 247;
    introduced in Delaware, 249;
    first legislation on, 250;
    Indian and Negro, legalized in Connecticut, 259;
    in New Jersey, 282;
    established in South Carolina, 289;
    perpetual, 290, 291;
    in New Hampshire 309;
    memorial against, in Pennsylvania, 313;
    prohibited in Georgia, 316;
    Gov.  Oglethorpe’s opinion on, 316;
    discussion on the admission of, in Georgia, 318-322;
    established in Georgia, 322;
    Washington prevents resolutions against, 327;
    legislation against, demanded, 403;
    act against, in Massachusetts, 405;
    progress of, during the Revolution, 411;
    as a political and legal problem, 412;
    recognized under the new government of United States, 414;
    attempted legislation against, 415;
    advocated by the Southern States, 418;
    speeches delivered in the convention at Philadelphia on, 420;

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