in the Federal Congress, 427;
    extinction of, in Massachusetts, 429;
    Franklin’s address for the abolition of, 431;
    memorials to Congress for the abolition of, 432, 437;
    bill for the gradual extinction of, in New York, 440;
    firmly established, 441.

  Slaves, social condition of white and black, 16;
    the lower class of negroes, 47;
    Lord Mansfield’s decision in the Sommersett case, 85, 86;
    declared free on reaching British soil, 86;
    introduced in America, 115;
    first introduced in Virginia, 116, 118;
    on Somer Islands, 118;
    number of, in Virginia, 119, 120, 132, 133;
    prohibition against, 121;
    special tax on female, 122, 123;
    sold for tobacco, 122;
    laws of Virginia in regard to, 123-125;
    act repealed declaring them real estate, 125;
    duty on, 126, 127;
    purchased in Maryland and Carolina to evade the tax, 128;
    tax on sales of, in Virginia, 128;
    reduced, 128;
    repealed, 128;
    revived, 128;
    traffic in, encouraged in Virginia, 128;
    no political or military rights, 128, 129;
    laws in Virginia, 129, 130;
    value fixed on, when executed, 129;
    laws of Virginia in regard to freedom of, 130;
    presented to clergymen, 131;
    prohibition against instructing, 132;
    denied education, 132;
    introduced in New York, 134;
    West India Company trade in, 135;
    manumitted in New York, 135;
    children of the latter held as, 135;
    imported from Brazil to New York, 136;
    exchanged for tobacco, 136;
    intermarry in New York, 137;
    New York to have constant supply, 140;
    Act to regulate, 140, 141;
    Act to baptizse, 140;
    against the harboring of, 141, 148;
    forbidden the streets in New York, 141;
    Negro riot, 143;
    Negro plot, 144-171;
    executed, 154, 161;
    burned, 157;
    Negroes exchanged for Indians, 173;
    Indians sent to Bermudas, 173;
    imported from Barbadoes to Massachusetts, 174;
  ship “Desire” arrives with, 174, 176;
    attempt to breed, in Massachusetts, 174;
    sold in Massachusetts, 175;
    issue of female, the property of their master, 180;
    marriage of, 180, 191, 192;
    sold at Barbadoes and West Indies, 181;
    number in Massachusetts, 183, 184;
    tax on, 185;
    rated as cattle, 187, 188, 196;
    denied baptism, 189;
    marriage-ceremony, 192;
    verdict awarded to a slave in Massachusetts, 204;
    number in Boston, 205;
    emancipated, 206;
    executed in Massachusetts, 226;
    transported and exchanged for small negroes, 226;
    sue for freedom in Massachusetts, 228-232;
    emancipated by England, 231;
    slave-code of Maryland, 246;
    laws against manumission of, 246, 250;