introduced in Connecticut, 252;
    purchase and treatment of, 253;
    persons manumitting to maintain them, 254;
    commerce with, prohibited, 255;
    importation of, prohibited, 259, 261;
    impost-tax on, in Rhode Island, 265;
    entertainment of, prohibited, 266;
    letter of the board of trade relative to, 267;
    Rhode Island supplied with, from Barbadoes, 269;
    slaves sold in Rhode Island, 269;
    value of, 269;
    clandestine importation and exportation of, prohibited, 271;
    Act relative to freeing Mulatto and Negro, in Rhode Island, 277;
    rated as chattel property, 278;
    masters of vessels prohibited from carrying Negro out of Rhode
      Island, 280;
    importation of, prohibited, 280;
    allowed trial by jury, in New Jersey, 283;
    impost-tax on, 286, 287;
    prohibited from joining militia, 288;
    regarded as chattel property in South Carolina, 292;
    branded, 294;
    life of, regarded as of little consequence, 296;
    education of, prohibited, 298, 300;
    overworking of, prohibited, 298;
    insurrection, 299;
    enlistment of, 300;
    masters compensated for the loss of, 301;
    rights of, controlled by the master in North Carolina, 304;
    emancipation of, prohibited, 307;
    New Hampshire opposed to the importation of, 309;
    ill treatment of, prohibited, 311;
    duration of, in New Hampshire, 311;
    tax on, imported into Pennsylvania, 314, 315;
    petition for freedom of, denied, 314;
    number of slaves in the colonies 1715 and 1775, 325;
    arrival of, at Virginia, from Jamaica, 328;
    severe treatment of, modified, 329;
    the Boston Massacre, 330;
    in the Continental army, 333, 335;
    excluded from the army, 335;
    allowed to re-enlist, 337;
    Lord Dunmore’s proclamation freeing, 336;
    join the British army, 339;
    prohibited from enlisting in Connecticut, 343;
    Rhode Island emancipates, on joining the army, 347;
    protest against the same, 348;
    masters of enlisted, recompensed, 349;
    serve in the army with white troops, 352;
    Act to enlist, in New York, 352;
    efforts to enlist, in South Carolina, 357;
    treatment of, by Cornwallis, 358;
    exchanged for merchandise, 358;
    disposal of recaptured, 374, 376, 379;
    recaptured, sent to Boston, 376;
    list of recaptured, 377;
    held as personal property, 381, 384;
    education of, prohibited, 385;
    sale of, advertised, 403, 408;
    in Massachusetts petition for freedom, 404;
    rights of, limited in Virginia, 409;
    who served in the army emancipated, 410;
    promised their freedom in New York, 411;
    impost-tax on, introduced in Federal Congress, 427;
    lawsuits instituted by, in Massachusetts, 430;
    number of, in United States,