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by Simon Schama


  Carretta, Vincent

  Carter, Landon

  Carter, Robert

  Cartwright, Captain

  Catawba Indians

  Certificates of service

  Cevils, Hannah

  Cevils, Zilpah

  Chapel, Mr (George’s owner), and his son

  Charles II, King of England

  Charleston

  battle of (1780)

  evaluation of claims to freedom in

  Jeremiah case in

  loyalists in, after end of war

  Charleston Council

  Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of

  Cheese, Anna and William

  Cherokee

  Cherokee

  Civil War, American

  Clara, Princess (daughter of Temne chief)

  Clarkson, Catherine

  Clarkson, John

  appointed superintendent of Sierra Leone

  authority over white councillors

  soldiers and sailors asserted by

  black settlers’ grievances and

  changes in company’s instructions for

  conversion experience of

  Dawes’s replacement of

  death of

  departure of, from Sierra Leone

  disagreements between Sierra Leone

  Company and

  dismissed from governorship

  emotional appeals made to settlers by

  in England after return from Africa

  governance of Sierra Leone and

  illness of

  King’s visit in England with

  Macaulay’s and Dawes’s criticisms of

  made governor of Sierra Leone

  naval career of

  as peace activist

  Peters’s challenges to

  Peters’s death and

  preparations of, for voyage to Africa

  recruitment mission of

  rules of conduct established by

  Temne and Bullom chiefs’ relations with

  in voyage to Africa

  white councillors and employees disdained by

  Clarkson, Susannah (née Lee)

  Clarkson, Thomas

  abolitionist campaign and

  epiphany of

  French abolitionists and

  honorary French citizenship awarded to

  at Paris peace conference (1815)

  Sierra Leone settlement and

  Wilberforce’s falling out with

  Clarkson’s Plantation, Sierra Leone

  Clinton, George

  Clinton, Sir Henry

  Black Pioneers and

  complicated record of, toward black charges

  Philipsburgh Proclamation of

  proclamation of. See Phillipsburg Proclamation

  Cocks, James

  Coffee

  Coffin, Jonathan

  Coleman, Richard

  Coleridge, Samuel

  Collett, Violet

  Collingwood, Luke

  Commentaries (Blackstone)

  Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

  Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

  Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

  Sierra Leone plan and

  Common Law, English

  Concord, skirmish at

  Condorcet, Marquis de

  Congress of the Confederation

  Connecticut, black loyalist soldiers and partisans in

  Connor, Susannah

  Constitution, British

  Constitution, U.S.

  Continental army

  blacks’ service in

  Continental Congress

  “Conversation” (Franklin)

  Conway, General

  Coram, John

  Corankapone, Richard

  Cornwallis, Lord Charles

  Cornwallis, Frederick, Archbishop of Canterbury

  Country Harbour, Nova Scotia

  Cowper, William

  Cox, James

  Creek Indians

  Croft, Peter

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cruden, John

  Cruizer

  Cuffe, Colonel (loyalist partisan)

  Cuffe, Paul

  Cugoano, Ottobah (later John Stewart)

  Cunard, Abraham

  Cunard, Samuel

  Cuthbert, John

  Dalrymple, Henry Hew

  Dance, George

  Dartmouth, William Legge, 2nd Earl of

  Davenport (lawyer)

  Davis, Jameson

  Davy, William “Bull”

  Dawes, William

  Clarkson’s policies set aside by

  made governor of Sierra Leone

  Day, Thomas

  Dean, John

  Declaration of Independence

  Declaration of the People’s Natural Right to Share in Legislature(Sharp)

  De Lancey, James

  De Mane, Harry

  Destouches, Admiral

  De Wint, Amos, house

  Diary or Woodfall’s Register

  Digby, Nova Scotia

  Digby, Robert

  Dix, Cuffe

  Dixon, Charles

  Dixon, Miles

  Dolben Bill

  Dolly, Quamino Dolphin

  Domingo, Signor

  Douglass, Frederick

  Drayton, William Henry

  DuBois, Anna Maria. See Falconbridge Anna Maria

  Dubois, Isaac

  Duke of Buccleuch

  Duncombe, Richard

  Dundas, Henry

  Dunk, William

  Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of

  black army of (Ethiopian Regiment)

  defeated at Great Bridge

  epidemic striking troops of

  flight of escaped slaves to serve with

  flotilla of

  Kemp’s Landing attacked by]

  munitions seized by

  Norfolk’s destruction and

  plantocracy’s attacks on

  proclamation of

  resistance of, after Yorktown capitulation

  Scottish background of

  Dunning, John

  Duryea, Jacob

  “Dying Negro, The” (Day and Bicknell)

  Dyott, Captain

  Edmonds, Mr (marshal)

  Edward VI, King of England

  Edwards, Steven

  Egan, Pierce

  Eilbeck, Mr (slaveholder)

  Elbert, Samuel

  Eleanor

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England

  Elliot, Andrew

  Emancipation Bill

  Emmons, Lucretia

  Equiano, Olaudah (aka Gustevus Vassa)

  Annis case and

  life story of

  Sierra Leone plan and

  Zong drownings and

  Essay (Phillips)

  Essay (Ramsay)

  Essex Journal and Merrimac Packet

  Estaing, Admiral Comte d’

  Ethiopian Balls

  Ethiopian Regiment

  see also Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of

  Evangelicals

  Ewald, Johann

  Eyre, Sir James

  Falconbridge, Alexander

  death of

  as Freetown’s commercial agent

  Sierra Leone settlement re–established by

  Falconbridge, Anna Maria (later Mrs. Isaac DuBois)

  husband’s death and

  petition of grievances and

  Sierra Leone left by

  Falconbridge, William

  Fanning, Colonel David

  Felicity

  1st Rhode Island Regiment

  Ford, Keziah

  Fordyce, Charles

  Fort Johnston

  Fort Murray

  Fort Sullivan

  Fortune, William

  Fowey, HMS

  Fox, Charles James

  France

  abolition in

  as American ally

&nb
sp; British rivalry with

  Revolution in

  Sierra Leone attacked by

  slavery reintroduced in

  slave trade of

  Franklin, Benjamin

  abolition and

  responses of, to charges of American hypocrisy

  treaty negotiations and

  Frankpledge

  Fraser, Mary

  Fraser, Patrick

  Fraunces, Samuel

  Freedom, British

  Freeman, Sambo

  Freetown, Sierra Leone, see also Sierra Leone–second settlement in

  Freetown Fair

  French Revolution

  Frey, Sylvia

  Furman, Shadrack

  Gage, Thomas

  Gallatin, Albert

  Galphin, George

  Gambia

  Garrick, David

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Gates, Horatio

  Gemmel, Robert

  George, David

  British forces joined by

  Clarkson accompanied back to England by

  Macaulay’s attempts at social control and

  in Nova Scotia

  planning for Sierra Leone settlement

  and as preacher

  in Sierra Leone

  slave life of

  smallpox suffered by

  George, King (Bullom chief)

  George, Phyllis

  George, Prince of Wales (later George IV

  King of England)

  George II, King of England

  George III, King of England

  Africans’ allegiance to

  crimes of, in Declaration of Independence

  free blacks’ regard for

  Parliament addressed on colonies’ rebellion by

  Patriots’ loyalty to

  Georgia

  black loyalist soldiers and partisans in

  black soldiers proposed for Patriot side in

  embrace of Patriot cause in

  slave bounties as recruitment incentive in

  slaves’ flight from plantations in

  see also Savannah

  Germain, Lord George

  Gesau, Mr (engineer)

  Gilbert, Messrs, and Others

  Gilbert, Nathaniel

  Gilbert, Reverend

  Gloucester, Duke of

  Glynn, John

  Gordon, Lord George

  Goree

  Granville Town, Sierra Leone

  see also Sierra Leone–first settlement in Grasse, Admiral de

  Gray, Sir Charles

  Gray, Jesse

  Gray, Mr (slave trader)

  Gray, Samuel

  Great Bridge, battles at

  Green, Jacob

  Green, Peter

  Greene, Christopher

  Greene, Nathanael

  Grenada

  Grenville, William Wyndham, Lord

  Grey, Captain

  Greyhound

  Griffin, John

  Griffith, Abraham Elliott

  Griffith, Rebecca

  Guysborough County, Nova Scotia

  Gwynn’s Island

  Hackney, Dr

  Halifax, Nova Scotia

  Clarkson’s recruitment mission in

  departure of fleet from

  gathering for journey to Africa in

  Halsted, Phyllis

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hamilton, John

  Hamilton, Thomas

  Hammond, Charlotte

  Hammond, Mr (diplomat)

  Hamond, Andrew Snape

  Handley, Scipio

  Hanway, Jonas

  Hardcastle, Joseph

  Hargrave, Francis

  Harpy

  Harris, John

  Harris, Joseph

  Harrison, Benjamin

  Hartshorne, Lawrence

  Hawkins, John

  Hawksmoor, Nicholas

  Hedley, Henry

  Henley, Lord Robert

  Henry, Patrick

  Henry, Ralph

  Herring, Simsa

  Hessians

  Heywood, Mr (lawyer)

  Heywood, Sampson

  Hill, Richard

  Historical Collections (Rushworth)

  History (Clarkson)

  History of Mary Prince, The

  Hoare, Samuel

  Holbrook, Felix

  Holmes, William and Deborah

  Holt, Lord Chief Justice

  Hopkins, Rev Samuel

  Horne, Rev Melville

  Howe, Robert

  Howe, William

  Huddy, Joshua

  Hughes, Mr and Mrs

  Hume, David

  Humes, Tobias

  Humphreys, Major

  Hutchinson, Thomas

  Hutchinson Family Quartet

  Indenturing

  of blacks in Nova Scotia

  Indians:

  British incitement of

  see also specific peoples

  Inglis, Bishop

  Innes, Alexander

  Instruments of Liberty

  Intolerable Acts

  Irving, Charles

  Irwin, Joseph

  Izard, Ralph

  Jack, King (Natchez leader)

  Jackson, Bob

  Jackson, Hannah

  Jackson, James

  Jackson, Judith

  Jackson, Lydia

  Jacobins

  Jamaica

  Maroons in

  slave insurrections in

  James I, King of England

  Jay, John

  Jefferson, Thomas

  abolition and

  Declaration of Independence and

  slaves lost by

  Jemmy George (Temne chief)

  Jeremiah, Thomas

  Jimmy, King (Temne chief)

  John Frederic (“Black Prince”)

  Johnson, Gabriel

  Johnson, Samuel

  Joie, Chester

  Jordan, Luke

  Jordan, Mingo

  Joseph

  Judkins, Charles

  Kemp’s Landing, skirmishes at

  Kensal, James

  Keppel, Augustus

  Kerr, James

  King, Boston

  Clarkson visited in England by

  in Nova Scotia

  Sierra Leone settlement and

  King, Robert

  King, Violet

  Kingston, March

  Kirkpatrick (Annis’s master)

  Kite, Sir Robert

  Kizell, John

  Knowles, Captain

  Kulikoff, Allan

  L’Abondance

  Ladd, Nathaniel

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  Lagree, Liberty (formerly James)

  Lagree, Venus

  Laird, Captain

  Lapwing

  Laurens, Henry

  Laurens, John

  Lavendar family (Port l’Hébert)

  Lawrence, Betsey

  Lee, Arthur

  Lee, Sir John

  Lee, Richard Henry

  Lee, Susannah. See Clarkson, Susannah

  Lee, William

  Leile, George

  Lemmon, John

  “Leo Africanus”

  Leonard, Joseph

  Leslie, Alexander

  Leslie, Mingo

  Leslie, Samuel

  Lewis, Thomas

  Lexington, skirmish at

  Liaster, James

  Liberator

  Liberia

  “Liberty,” rhetoric of

  Lincoln, Benjamin

  Lindsay, Dido Elizabeth Belle

  Lindsay, John

  Lippincott (Huddy’s killer)

  Lisle, David

  Little Joggin, Nova Scotia

  Livingston, William

  Lloyd, John

 

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