United-States Congress, action on the disposal of recaptured Negroes,
      374;
    first session at New York, 1789, 426;
    proceedings, 427;
    memorials to, for the abolition of slavery, 432, 437;
    discussion in, on the restriction of the slave-trade, 433;
    prohibits the introduction of slaves into the Mississippi Territory,
      440.

  Upton, Samuel and William, emancipate their father’s slave, 207.

  Ury, John, his connection with the New-York Negro plot, 1741, 160,
      162, 163, 166;
    executed, 169.

  Utrecht, the treaty of, to provide Negroes for the Spanish West
      Indies, 236.

  Van Twiller, Wouter, charged with neglect of public affairs in
      New Netherlands, 249;
    owner of Negro slaves, 250.

  Varick, Caesar, charged with burglary at New York, 148.

  Varnum, Gen. J.M., letter to Washington on the enlistment of Negroes,
      346.

  Vaughan, Col.  James, Legislature of Rhode Island refund tax on two
      child slaves imported by, 276.

  Vermont, slave population, 1790;
    admitted into the Union, 436.

  “Victoria,” ship, captures British privateer with Negroes, 376.

  Virginia, slavery in, 115-133;
    slaves first introduced, 116;
    number of, 119;
    forced on the colony, 119;
    the first to purchase slaves, 119;
    women purchased in England and sent to, 119;
    number of slaves, 119, 120, 132, 133;
    population, 120;
    Assembly pass prohibition against Negroes, 121;
    slavery legalized, 123;
    Indians declared slaves, 124, 125;
    Assembly protest against the repeal of the Act declaring Negroes
        real estate, 125, 126;
    impose duty on slaves and servants imported, 126, 127;
    tax on slaves sold, 128;
    reduced, 128, repealed, 128;
    revived, 128;
    prohibit Catholics, Indians, and Negro slaves to appear as
        witnesses, 129;
    pass act to value slave when executed, 129;
    threatened revolt of the free Negroes, 130;
    Act in regard to the freedom of slaves, 130;
    number of slaves in 1715 and 1775, 325;
    arrival of slaves in 1775, 328;
    purchaser of the same reproved, 328;
    instructions to delegation to Congress relative to the abolition
        of slavery, 328;
    Lord Dunmore’s proclamation freeing slaves, 336;
    Negroes join the British army, 339, 352;
    declaration of convention against Dunmore’s proclamation, 341;
    number of slaves in Cornwallis’s army, 358;
    rights of slaves limited, 409;
    slaves who served in the army emancipated, 410;
    slave population, 1790, 436.

  Walklin, Thomas, testimony in the Sommersett case, 205.

  Warren, Joseph, oration on human liberty, 333.

  Warwick, Earl of, slaves on his plantation at the Bermudas, 116, 118.