INDEX.
- Adams, John, 109
- Adams, J. Quincy, 109
- Africa benighted by Slavery, 9
- African Repository, Extracts from, 123, 133, 137
- African Individuals of distinction, 157 to 167
- Amalgamation, 132, 200
- Ancient and Modern Slavery compared, 38
- Anti-Slavery Society, 142
- Appleton, Mr. 78
- Baptism supposed to confer freedom, 58
- Bible opposed to slavery, 32
- Blood-hounds, 27
- Brown, Moses, 98
- Brodnax, Mr. 79
- Capt. Riley, 73
- Charles 5th, refused to sanction the slave-trade, 8
- Child follows the condition of its mother, 40
- Christianity abolished slavery, 58
- Clay, Henry, 77, 136
- Clothing of Slaves, 44
- Code Noir, 46, 49, 54
- Colonization, 123
- Cruelties to Slaves, 17, 24, 26, 28
- Devonshire, Duchess of, 215
- Democracy of the North, 112
- District of Columbia, 216
- Duelling, 113
- Dymond, Jonathan, 147
- Eastern and Western Virginia, 119
- Effect of Slavery on the Masters, 22
- Egyptians, 149
- Elizabeth of England tolerated the trade, 8
- Emancipation safe, 87
- English formerly sold to Irish, 58
- Entailed upon us by England, 75
- Ethiopians, 149
- Everett, Alexander H. 176
- Evidence of colored persons not admitted, 45, 48
- Faulkner, Mr. 79
- Female slaves unprotected, 23
- Fierceness and pride induced by Slavery, 113
- Food of Slaves, 44
- French planter's ideas of religion for Slaves, 58
- Free Labor, 76
- Garrison, Mr. 209
- Gentoo Code, 52
- Gholson, Mr. 102
- Grecian Slavery, 47, 53, 54, 56
- Happiness of Slaves, 140
- Hayne, Mr. 103
- Hayti, 86, 121
- Hebrews, 48, 52, 55
- Helots, 47
- Humanity of masters, how far a protection, 72
- Indian treatment of Slaves, 46
- Inequality of laws for offences, 60
- Insurrections, 194
- Intellect of Africans, 151, 170
- Internal slave-trade, 33
- Interest to treat slaves well, 30
- Jefferson, Thomas, 22
- Kenrick, John, 215
- Kidnapping, 34, 65
- Labor compulsory and uncompensated, 41
- Lafayette, 97
- Laws regulating labor, 43, 44
- Laws obstruct emancipation, 54
- Laws to perpetuate ignorance, 59, 67, 70
- Laws against Free Colored People, 63
- Louis 13th, 8
- Marriages, laws concerning, 196
- Martineau, Harriet, 83
- Masters have absolute power to punish, 49
- Miller, Gov. of S. Carolina, 103
- Missouri Question, 120
- Moral Character of Africans, 177
- Moss, Mary and Helen, 24
- New-England kept in check by jealousy of the Slave States, 114
- North and South, 31
- Ohio and Kentucky, 86
- Offences punished in Slaves, 61
- Park, Mungo, 177
- Pauperism, comparative in West Indies, 90
- Petitions, 216
- Pinckney, Charles, 108
- Political power of Slave States, 111
- Portuguese, 7, 48, 54
- Prejudice against color almost unknown in other countries, 135, 208
- Prejudice cherished by Colonization, 133
- Prejudice, instances of, 198 to 209
- Quakers, 213
- Religious privileges of Slaves, 57
- Roane, Mr. 139
- Roman Slaves, 47, 54, 55
- Runaways, 62, 71
- Sectional dislike, 121
- Slave Trade, beginning of, 7
- Slave Ship, description of, 12
- Slave Trade, cruelties of, 17
- Slave Trade defended in House of Commons, 19
- Slave Trade sanctioned by Constitution of the United States for twenty years, 36
- Slave cut in pieces, 26
- Slave Codes, different degrees of mildness, 39
- Slavery, hereditary and perpetual, 42
- Slaves cannot own property, 46, 71
- Slaves considered as chattels, 45
- Slaves in Africa, 48
- Slaves never allowed to resist, 52
- Slaves in U. S. cannot redeem themselves, 53
- Slaves unprotected in domestic relations, 54
- Slave Representation, 105
- Slavery veiled in the Constitution, 106
- Son, who murdered his father to obtain freedom, 23
- Southerners do not desire the abolition of Slavery, 100
- Southerner, conversation with, 139
- Spanish Slaves, 7, 48, 54, 56
- St. Domingo, 86
- Sutcliff's Travels, 81
- Toussaint L'Ouverture, 166
- Turkey, 56
- Union, 119
- Washington's Slaves, 96
- Washington had doubts, 107
- Wirt, William, 102
- Wright, Gov. of Maryland, 106
- Zhinga, 154
Transcriber's Note
This ebook retains the spelling variations and inconsistencies of the original document. Where corrections to quotation marks seemed necessary, changes were made, as detailed below. However, quotation-mark usage in this text is variable. Some quoted passages have end-quotes after each paragraph; some after only the final paragraph quoted. This style matches that of the original document published in 1836.
The following typographical corrections have been made to this text:
| Title Page: | Added missing quotation marks (Our brethren!") |
| Page 7: | Added missing end punctuation (Wordsworth.) |
| Page 9: | Changed igenuity to ingenuity (excite industry and ingenuity) |
| Changed diastrous to disastrous (have been most disastrous) | |
| Changed intercouse to intercourse (intercourse with Europeans) | |
| Page 10: | Added missing end punctuation (spears of the enemy.) |
| Page 12: | Changed 'two' to 'too' (becomes almost too harrowing) |
| Page 14: | Added missing quotation marks ("The officers insisted) |
| Changed kness to knees (against our knees) | |
| Page 16: | Changed stong to strong (a very strong party) |
| Changed consequnce to consequence (consequence of the severe) | |
| Added missing quotation marks (old candle-boxes.") | |
| Page 23: | Changed consience to conscience (a matter of conscience) |
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| Page 99: | Changed agreeaable to agreeable (an agreeable novelty) |
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| Page 145: | Removed duplicate word 'been' (to have been the meekest) |
| Page 146: | Changed opnion to opinion (influences public opinion) |
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| Page 159: | Changed Geoffrroy to Geoffroy (Lislet Geoffroy) |
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