1790, 436;
    law for the return of fugitive, 438;
    introduction of, prohibited into the Mississippi Territory, 440;
    importation of, prohibited in Georgia, 440;
    condition of, in Massachusetts, 461;
    petition of, in Boston, 462;
    Massachusetts laws in regard to, 463.

  Slave-trade, commenced at Benin, Africa, 26;
    natives of Africa engage in, 27;
    suppressed by England, 28, 31;
    at Yoruba, Africa, 31;
    declared piracy by England, 87;
    abolished in Liberia, 104, 105;
    earliest commerce for slaves between Africa and America, 115;
    introduced first in Virginia, 116, 118;
    Dutch engage in the, 124, 135;
    tax on the subjects of Great Britain in the, 127;
    encouraged in Virginia, 128;
    with Angola, Africa, 134;
    encouraged by the Dutch, 135;
    sanctioned by the English, 138;
    encouraged by Queen Elizabeth, 138;
    growth in New York, 140;
    slave-market erected in New York, 142;
    Indians exchanged for Negroes, 173;
    in New England, 174;
    ship “Desire” built for the, 174;
  arrives with cargo of slaves, 174, 176;
    on the coast of Guinea, 180;
    increased in Massachusetts, 184;
    abolished by England, 231;
    bill for the suppression of, in Massachusetts, 235;
    sanctioned in Rhode Island, 265, 273;
    vessels fitted out for the, 269;
    slave-market at Charleston, S.C., 299;
    the situation of South Carolina favorable to the, 302;
    progress during the Revolution, 402;
    discussion in Congress on the restriction of the, 434;
    act against the foreign, 438.

  Slew, Jenny, a slave, sues for her freedom, 228.

  Smeatham, Dr., one of the founders of the Sierra Leone colony, 86.

  Smith, Hamilton, antiquity of the Negro race, 18.

  Smith, Samuel, murders his Negro slave, 461.

  Smith, William, volunteers to prosecute the Negroes in New York, 151,
      158, 166.

  Sommersett, James, a Negro slave, brought to England and abandoned by
      his master, 85, 205;
    discharged, 206.

  Sorubiero, Margaret, connected with the New-York Negro plot, 1741,
      147, 152, 153.

  South Carolina, slaves purchased in, to evade the tax, 128;
    slavery in, 289-301;
    receives two charters from Great Britain, 289;
    Negro slaves in, 289;
    slavery legislation, 289;
    slavery established, 289;
    perpetual bondage of the Negro, 290, 291;
    slaves regarded as chattel property, 292;
    trial of slaves, 292;
    increase of slave population, 292;
    growth of the rice-trade, 292;
    trade with Negroes prohibited, 293;
    conduct of slaves regulated, 293;
    punishment of slaves, 294;
    branded, 294;
    life of slaves regarded as of little consequence, 296;