Washburn, Emory, views on the slavery laws of Massachusetts, 179.

  Washington, George, acknowledges verses written by Phillis Wheatley,
      200, 201;
    presents Virginia resolutions of 1774 against slavery, 327;
    takes command of the army, 334;
    forbids the enlistment of Negroes, 334;
    instructed to discharge all Negroes and slaves in the army, 335;
    order of, against Negro enlistments, 336;
    letter to Congress on admitting Negroes to the army, 337;
    letter to Joseph Reed on Lord Dunmore’s proclamation, 341;
    letter to Gov.  Cooke, 345;
    letter to Henry Laurens, on the arming of the Negroes, 353;
    letter to John Laurens on the failure to enlist Negroes in the
        South, 360;
    letter to Sir Guy Carleton relative to Negroes, 381;
    to Gen. Putnam in regard to a Negro in the army claimed by his
        owner, 384;
    president of the Federal Convention, 417.

  Watson, Capt., arrives at Norfolk, Va., with slaves, 328.

  Wayne, Anthony, letter to Lieut.-Col.  Meigs relative to Negroes
    captured by him, 375.

  Wesleyan Methodists establish mission at Sierra Leone, 90.

  West India Company, trade in slaves, 135;
    children of manumitted Negroes held as slaves by the, 135;
    cost of the government of New Netherland to the, 136;
    encourage commerce in slaves, 137;
    slaves in New York the property of the, 139.

  West Indies, Negroes captured and made slaves, 117, 118;
    slaves sold at, 181;
    England furnishes Negroes to the, 237.

  Western Territory, plan for the disposal of the, 416;
    slave population, 1790, 436.

  Wheatley, Phillis, an African poetess, 197;
    visits England, 198;
    publishes her poems, 199;
    marries John Peters, 200;
    death of, 200;
    poem to Washington, 200;
    Washington’s letter of acknowledgment, 201.

  Whipple, John, sued by Jenny Slew, a slave, 228.

  Whitefield, Rev. George, his plantation and Negroes in Georgia, 321.

  Williams, George W., orations on “The Footsteps of the Nation,”
      “Early Christianity in Africa,” 111;
    first colored graduate from Newton Seminary, 111;
    ordination poem by Rev. Dr. Abbott, 111.

  Wilson, D.A., principal of school at Liberia, 100.

  Wilson, Jacob, on African languages, 67.

  Wilkinson, Gardiner, discovers a Theban tomb with Negro scenes, 15;
    condition of white and black slaves, 16.

  Willson, Capt.  John, charged with exciting slaves, 226.

  Windsor, Thomas, master of ship “Seaflower,” arrives at Newport,
      R.I., with slaves from Africa, 269.

  Winter, Sir William, a slave-trader, 138.

  Worcester, Mass, representative instructed to vote against slavery,
      220.