Index

Adams, Thomas, 49

Africa (individual’s name), 53

Alexander, William, 181–2

Allambey, Colonel William, 179

Allestree, Paul, 190, 192

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, xxix

American Weekly Mercury, 211

Andrew, 79, 86, 93, 146

Angola, John, 114

Anthony, 161, 175–6, 183, 189

Antigua, 24, 71, 76, 96, 139, 157, 168, 170

Parham plantations, 157

Apprentices, xii, 8–10, 25, 29, 31–2, 34, 36, 213, 217

Archer, Edward, 133, 134–7,192

Ardra (or Allada), West Africa, 149–50, 187

Aylmer, Brabazon, 160–1

Ayscue, Sir George, 168

Bacon, Nathaniel, 88

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–7), 88, 197, 200

Baker, John, 11

Baker, Mr, 181–2

Baldwin, Richard, 213

Baldwin, Robert, 212–13

Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert, Charles

Bank of England, 15, 20, 22, 74, 110, 155, 165, 166, 182

Bantam, Java, 81, 83, 99, 101, 141

Barbados, xxv, 18, 36, 42, 49, 56, 71, 96, 103, 109, 114, 115–16, 134–5, 136, 137, 145, 152, 153, 168, 170–9, 187, 190, 196, 197, 198, 201–7, 212–14

Barbados Gazette, 212–14

Barker, Thomas, 156–7

Barret, Mr, 148

Batelier, William, 97

Batten, Sir William, xxv, 13, 97

Bay, Tom, 192

Beale, Alexander, 115

Ben, xxi–xxiv, 158

Benjamin, 113, 115–16

Beasley, Edward, 46

Beasley, Mr, 185

Beauchampe, Edmund, 78

Beef, Jack, 11

Behn, Aphra, 167, 171–2

Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), 167, 171–2

Bengal, 36, 45, 81, 83, 99, 100

Benin, Bight of, xxiii, 149, 171, 187

Berkeley, Lord George, 65

Berkeley, Sir William, 88

Bess, 46, 103–4

Bible, 55, 140

Bigg, Abraham, 65

Bigg, Anthony, 65

Birch, Jane, 10

Birch, Wayneman, 11, 73

Bird, John, 175–6

Birkin, Abraham, 113

Black, capitalization of, xxii, 164–5

Black, Anthony, 49

Black Boy, sign of, xxii, 164–5. See also Evance, Stephen

Black London

baptisms, 14, 39–51, 89, 90–1, 93, 95, 108–9, 175, 190–1

burials, 14, 39–44, 46–51, 90, 91, 93

map, 40

marriages, 14, 39–43, 48–50, 93, 95, 97, 108, 175

Black, Peter, 44

Black, Tom, 66

Blackwall, 45, 62, 146, 148

Bombay, 36, 88–9, 141

Boston News-Letter, xxix, 211–12

Bowers, John, 81, 83–5, 95, 99–100, 162, 164–5

Bowman’s coffee house, xxii, 15, 166

Braddyl, John, 159

brands on enslaved people. See freedom seekers: brands

Breholt, Davy, 159

Bringhurst, John, 160

Bristol, 24, 44, 62, 65, 110–11, 113, 119, 160, 181, 183

Bromfield, Lady, 53, 127

Bromley-by-Bow, 62, 92

Brooking, Winifred and William, 108

Broughton, Edward, 184

Broughton, Lady Mary, 160, 184

Brown, Thomas,

Amusements Serious and Comical (1702), 3, 18, 23, 82–3

Bruning, Francis, 76

Bruning, Gilbert, 76–7

Bruning, John, 76

Brusser, James, 46

Byrd (I), William, 175–6

Byrd (II), William, 176

Caesar, 105–6, 162, 213

Calabar, 171

Calcutta, 83

Calib, 79, 159–60, 181, 183

Calvert, Charles, 47–8

Campion, John, 95, 101, 127

Campion, Thomas

‘I care not for these Ladies’ (1601), 33–4

Cape Coast Castle, 45, 134, 156

Carlisle, earl of, 65, 168

Carter, John, 150

Cary, Nathaniel, 212

Cary, Richard, 192

Cary, Thomas, 145, 160

Castle, John, 45

Castlemor, conde de, 85

Catherine of Braganza, 85–6

Cesar, Samuel, 41–2

Champion, 108–9

Charles I, 3, 120, 167–8, 198

Charles II, 3, 30, 85–6, 88, 164, 168, 187–8, 191, 198, 207

Chelsea, 62, 86, 127, 178

Christian, William, 45

churches, in London

St Alfege, Greenwich, 41, 45, 47

St Benet Fink, Threadneedle Street, 43

St Botolph, Aldgate, 41

St Bride’s, Fleet Street, 41, 47

St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, 45–7, 136, 143

St Dionis Backchurch, 136

St George the Martyr, Southwark, 44, 47

St Giles-in-the-Fields, 48–9, 92, 108–9, 178

Holy Trinity, Minories, 41–2

St John’s, Hackney, 43

St John’s, Wapping, 41–2, 44

St Martin-in-the-Fields, 49, 175, 186, 191

St Mary, Stratford-le-Bow, 48–9

St Mary, Whitechapel, 51

St Mary, Sunbury, 90

St Nicholas, Deptford, 46, 49

St Pancras Old Church, xxi

St Paul’s cathedral, 5, 8, 16, 127

St Paul’s, Shadwell, 43

St Peter, Cornhill, 50–1

City Mercury, 24, 161, 183

City of London, xxiii, xxviii, 3–8, 11–14, 20, 22–3, 31, 43, 47, 49–50, 62, 66–7, 78, 83, 92, 97, 101, 103–4, 108, 110–11, 133, 136–7, 141, 143, 145–6, 155, 158–60, 162, 164–6, 189–90

Civil War, English (and War of the Three Kingdoms), xxvi, 3, 115, 168, 170, 186, 189, 198, 203

Clarke, Edward, 110

Clarkson, Thomas, xxix

Clearke (or Clarke), Richard, 136

Cockroft, Caleb, 186–7

Cocke, George, 97

coffee houses, xxi–xxiii, 14–15, 18–24, 67, 83, 141, 145, 158–61, 166. See also Bowman’s, Crown, Garraway’s, Jonathan’s, Lloyd’s, Royal, Vernon’s, and Virginia coffee houses

Cooke, Giles, 214

Cooke, John, 50–1

colour, descriptions of skin tone, 33–5, 62–3

collars, locks, and chains restraining enslaved people, 11, 23, 53, 78, 85–6, 95, 99, 100–1, 105, 117–32, 188

collars for dogs, 120–2, 132

Colleton, Sir John, 65

Cook, Moses, 107–8

Cooke, Giles, 214

Cooke, John, 50–1

Cooper, Sir Anthony Ashley, 203

Cooper, Margaret, 75

Corney, 60, 101–3

Cornwall, 114

Council of Trade and Foreign Plantations, 74, 196

country marks, see freedom seekers: African: country marks

Cowan, Brian, 18

Cowper, Colonel, 183

Cromwell, Oliver, 3, 167–8, 186–7, 198

Cromwell, Richard, 82

Crouch (Crouches), Samuel, 161. See also True Protestant Domestic Intelligence

Crown coffee house, 117

Daniel, John, 82, 141

Daniel, Peter, 41

Daniel, Sarah, 82

Darby, 212

Davies, Robert, 43

Davis, Mrs, 149

Defoe, Daniel, 29

Deptford, 46, 49, 62, 65, 77, 88, 140, 141

Diego, also known as James, 63

dogs, newspaper advertisements for, 30, 120–2

Doll, 97

Dorset, earl of, 47

Drax, Hannah Sophia, 175

Drax, Henry, 71, 167, 173–5, 178

Drax, Sarah, 175

Dryden, John, 186

The Tempest (1670), xii

Dymock, Ann, 130

Dymock, Rebecca, 130–2

Dymock, Thomas, 129–32

East End, xxiii–iv, 5, 12, 39, 43, 46, 48–50, 62, 92–3, 100–1, 106, 116, 127, 134, 136, 141, 143, 145–6, 153, 160

East India Company, 15, 23, 36, 45, 74, 81, 83–4, 86, 88, 99, 141, 146, 148, 155–6, 164–6, 182, 186

East India Ships at Deptford (c.1683), 88

Edwards, Thomas, 11, 137, 180

Elizabeth, 46

Emmanuel, 115

Equiano, Olaudah, 133, 135, 139, 142, 150–1

Essah, Abena

‘Escape Route’ (2021), xix–xx

Evance, Stephen, xxii, 81, 83–4, 162, 164

Exclusion Crisis, 3, 27, 54

Fernande, Emanuell, 43

Flatt, William, 109

Fleet marriages, 39

Flying Horse Tavern, 137

Ford, Richard

A New Map of the Island of Barbados (1685), 115–16

Fortune, 109–10

Fountain Tavern, 91–2

Foy, Theophilus, 45

Frances, 47

Francis, Edward, 129–32

Francisco, also known as Bugge, 79, 83, 85, 100, 162, 164–5

Franklin, Benjamin, 214, 217–18

Franklin, Deborah, 218

Franklin, William, 217–18

freedom seekers in English colonies, 195–209, 211–15

freedom seekers

age, 58–60

African, xxi–xxiv, 44, 53, 60, 62–4, 66, 73–9, 95, 96–8, 100–1, 102, 104–11, 113–16, 117, 122, 126–30, 133–41, 143, 146, 148–53, 155–63, 167, 171–84, 189–92, 198–209, 217–18

country marks, 105–10, 113, 162, 172, 184

sharpened teeth, xix, 110–11, 113

brands, 53, 97, 105, 113–16, 117, 118, 133–4, 184–5, 187–8, 199, 209, 212–13

collars, locks, and chains, see collars, locks, and chains

compared with colonial, 34–5, 57–60, 117–18

gender, 58–60

mutilation of, 113–16, 117, 212

music of, xix, xxv, 106, 162

Native American, xxvi, 14, 55–6, 63, 71, 88–9, 196–7, 204

South Asian, 53, 60, 62–4, 75–6, 81–93, 95, 99–100,101, 103, 122, 141, 145, 160, 164–5, 181, 185

Gandy, John, 141

Garraway’s coffee house, xxii, 15, 20, 22, 160, 166

Glanville, William, 97

Gloria Britannica (1689), xii

Godfrey, John, 214

Godwin, Lady Ann, 47

Gold, West African, xxii, 84, 150, 162–3, 167. See also guinea (coin)

Gold Coast, West Africa, 45, 64, 133–4, 138, 148, 153, 156, 172–3

Goldesbrough, Robert, 86, 127

Gorey, Mr, 77–8

Goude, xx, 143, 149–53

Goulding, Sarah, 47

Gracedieu, Sir Bartholomew, 74, 137, 192

Grantham, Sir Thomas, 88–91

Gravesend, 133, 182

Greenwich, 5, 12, 41, 44–5, 47, 49, 62, 82, 88, 105–6, 133, 149, 162

Griffier, Jan

A View of Greenwich from the River with Many Boats (1700–10), 45

Grigg, Ann, 42

Grigg, Elizabeth, 42

Grigg, Phoebe, 42

Grigg, Thomas, 42

Grimké, Angelina, xxix

Grimké, Sarah, xxix

Guinea (coin), xxiv, 23, 30, 46, 81, 90, 95, 111, 113, 122, 130, 133, 136–7, 140, 145, 160, 162–5, 167, 179, 181–2, 217

Guinea, West Africa, 48, 64, 71, 73, 75, 107

Guy, Thomas, 140

Hackney, 5, 43, 62, 143, 189

Hall, Mrs, 148

Hamburgh, Nicholas, 108

Hampstead, 5, 92

Harwood, Richard, 173–4

Hastings, George, 128

Hawkins (Howkins), Thomas, 161. See also City Mercury

Hector, Charles, 190–1

Hendricx, John, 138–9

Herbert, Edward, 90

Hind, Samuel, 148

Hogsden, Hertfordshire, 181

Holdip, James, 203

Hollar, Wenceslaus

Byrsa Londinensis Vulgo the Royal Exchange (1644?), 17

Head of a Black woman in profile to left (1645), 102

Head of a Black woman with a lace kerchief hat (1645), 97–8

London: The Long View (1647), xviii

Piazza in Covent Garden (c.1647), 186

Portrait of an African Boy (1645), 72

Holmes, Sir Robert, 190

Hook, Robert, 18

Hooper, Robert, 203

Horne, Robert, 161

Horsmanden, Mary, 176

Houblon (Hobland), Peter, 182

Humphry, 160–1, 163

Igbo, xxiii, 106, 172

indentured servants, 114, 170, 196–7, 213

and colonial laws, 201–3, 208

The Intelligencer, Published for Satisfaction and Information of the People, 27

Ipswich, 62, 181–2

Isle of Dogs, 141

Jack, 71, 73–6, 97, 107, 212

Jamaica, xxiii, xxvi, xxix, 18, 36, 46–7, 59–60, 65, 71, 74, 96, 118, 137–8, 151–2, 167, 173, 179, 184, 197, 202, 207–8, 213

Jamaica coffee house, 15, 24, 106

James II, xxiv, 3, 27, 54, 90, 120, 140, 191. See also York, duke of

Jemmy, 179

Jenny, 214

Jenkinson, Mary, 129

Jeston, William, 183

Jheronomy, Josiah, 41

Jheronomy, Thomas, 41

Johanna, 115

Johnson, Elizabeth, 45

Johnson, Francis, 146

Johnson, Sir Henry, 45, 146

Johnson, Sir John, 158

Johnson, Mary, 146

Johnson, Theodore, xxi–xxiv, 158

Johnson, William, 45, 92

Jonathan’s coffee house, 15, 20, 22, 166

Joseph, 137, 180

Joyce, Thomas, 185–7

Judge, Ona, 57

Katherine, 43

Keigwin, Richard, 88

Keimer, Samuel, 213–14

Kendall, Anna, 178

Kent, Charles, 138

Kidd, Joseph, 138–9

King, John, 217–18

Kirke, Colonel Percy, 128

Kingston, 62

Knight, John, 77–8

Lambeth, 5, 49

Lane, Thomas, 176

language, and slavery, xi–iii

Laroon, Marcellus

‘London Gazette here’ (1689), 22

Leeward Islands, Caribbean, 163, 191

Lewis, Thomas, 77

Licensing of the Press Act (1662), 27

Lickfield, Johanna, 130–2

Ligon, Richard, 196

Limehouse, 47, 62, 151–2

Lloyd’s coffee house, xxii, 15, 20, 46, 159, 163, 166, 177

Lloyd, Edward, 20, 104, 159, 177

Locker, Daniel, 43

London

Black community in, xxiii, 39–51, 58, 79, 93, 101, 109

building, 11–12

geographic growth, 3–6, 11–12, 14–22

Great Fire (1666), xxi, 3, 11, 14, 20

maritime trades and communities, xxviii, 5, 12–13, 39, 44, 50, 83, 93, 100, 126–7, 136, 141, 143–53, 165

merchants, xxi–xxiv, 8, 12, 16–22, 36, 49, 67, 74–5, 78–9, 81, 88–92, 97, 101, 108–11, 113, 117, 122–6, 136–8, 143, 145, 155–66, 176–8, 181–3, 186, 189, 190–2

plague (1665–6), 3, 25, 82, 97

population increase, 3–5

sailors, xxiii, xxv, 7, 8, 12–13, 53, 55, 64, 83, 85, 89, 93, 101, 114, 126, 133–4, 140–2

servants, xii, xxii–iv, xxv, 7–13, 24–5, 28–32, 34–5, 43, 46–7, 55–7, 60, 63, 73, 75–8, 81, 85–6, 93, 95–100, 102, 121, 126, 130–2, 138, 145, 149, 152, 158, 165, 167, 172–3, 175–7, 180, 189, 196–7, 199

London Bridge, xxii, xxiv, 8, 20, 24

London Gazette, xxiv, 22, 25–9, 184

circulation, 27–9, 184

advertisements, xxiv, 18, 24, 28–30, 35, 44, 71, 81, 88, 89, 91–2, 95, 113, 122, 133, 143, 148, 155, 167, 181, 184

London Post, 213

Lucas, Captain, 46

Lucas, Robert, third Baron Lucas of Shenfield, 131

Madagascar, 48, 107–8, 137, 145, 180–2

Madras, 36, 81, 83, 99–100

Mahomet, 89

Malagascow, see Madagascar

Margaret, 43, 47

maritime marronage, 93, 142

Martin, George, 203

Mary II, 88, 165

Maryland, xxvi, 23, 48, 71, 78, 161, 178–9, 196, 198–9, 201

Martyn, Joseph, 191

Masters, Walter, 181

Mead, Thomas, 191–2

Mead, William, 163, 191

Mercurius Politicus, Comprising the Sum of Foreign Intelligence, 25, 30–1, 157, 167

Mercurius Publicus, Comprising the Sum of Forraign Intelligence, 27, 185

Mignard, Pierre, 86–7

Louis de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (1682), 86–7

Millian, Hellen, 41

Mingo, xxv, 13, 97

Mingoe, Daniel, 47

Mings, John, 178

Modyford, Sir James, 65

Modyford, Thomas, 207

Molineux, Catherine, 123

Monmouth, Duchess of, 190–1

Monmouth, Duke of, 191

Monmouth Rebellion (1685), 191

Montagu, Sir Edward (Earl of Sandwich), 85

Moor, John, 79

Moore, Joseph, 158

Moore, Maria, 46

Moorfield, William, 77–9

Morall, 92

Morden, Robert and Philip Lea

‘A prospect of London and Westminster’ (1682), 20–1, 143–4

Morgan, Francis, 138

Morgan William

London &c. Actually Surveyed (1682), 15, 21, 144, 147, 166

Morice, Catherine (née Paggens), 74

Morice, Sir Humphry, 74

Moss, Jane, 43

Mottaw, also known as Jack, 75–6

Munday, William, 41

Mundy, Henry, 167, 173–5

Navigation Act (1660), 12

Navy Office, 13, 77

Ned, 53

Negro, Phenex, 43

Nevis, 191

New England Courant, 211

New Exchange, the Strand, 24, 155

New, Simon, 103

Newcomb, Thomas, xxiv

The Newes, Published for Information and Satisfaction of the People, 27

Newham, Christopher, 148, 160

Newport, William, 45

Newsletters, 22, 24, 89

Newspapers, xxvi, xxviii–xxix, 14, 19–20, 22–35, 56, 59–62, 64, 158–9, 161, 164–5, 183–4, 195, 211–15, 217–18

Noble, Captain, 92

Oakeley, William, 56

Obrisset, Jean, 125–6

Old Bailey Proceedings, xi, xii

Ongar, 181–2

Othello, 53

Ouidah, West Africa, 150

Oyo, xxiii

Paggens, Peter, 71, 73, 75, 107

Palaeologus, Ferdinand, 116

Palaeologus, Theodore, 115–16

Pall, 163

parish records, 39–51

baptisms of Black people, 39, 41–9, 50

burials of Black people, 39, 43–4, 46–8, 51

map of baptisms, marriages and burials of Black people, 40

marriages of Black people, 39, 41–2, 50

Pascal, Michael, 133

Paton, Diana, 100

Patterson, Orlando, 128

Peacham, Henry, 23

The Perfect Dirunall of Some Passsages and Proceedings of and in relation to the Armies in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 25

Pearle, Henry, 81–2

Peeter, 81

Penelope, 212

Penn, Sir William, 23, 97, 191

Pennsylvania Gazette, 59, 213, 217

Pepperil, William, 212

Pepys, Elisabeth, 10

Pepys, Samuel, xxv, 10–11, 13, 18–20, 25, 27, 31, 56, 65–6, 73, 75, 82, 96–7, 100, 159

Pery, Richard, 161, 178

Perry, Micajh, 176

Peter, 76–7, 115, 138, 185–7, 212, 217–18

Peter, William, 159

petit marronage, 57

Pett, Mary, 146

Pett, Peter, 13, 146

Pett, Sir Phineas, 140, 146

Phelps, Thomas, 56

Philip, 181

Planters, 65, 67, 71, 73, 76, 115, 134, 151, 167–80, 184, 196, 198–209, 211

Plowman, Daniel, 212

Plymouth, 62

Pompey, 117, 122–3

Poole, Sir William, 41–2

Poole, Daniel, 44

Pope, Charles, 159–60, 181, 183

Pope, Thomas, 183

Poplar, 62, 92, 141, 148

Post Boy and Historical Account, 213

Post Man and The Historical Account, 213

Public Advertiser, 217

Pusey, William, 212

Putney, 49, 62

Quamy, 155, 157–8

Quashey, 133

Quashy, 65, 155

Queen Ann, 120

Quelch, Benjamin, 46, 103–4, 177

Quomino, 178–9, 192

Quoshey, 53, 133–6, 192

racial descriptors, 48, 60, 62–4

Ram, Joannes de

Londini Angliæ (1690), 5

Ratcliff, xxiii, 46, 62, 95, 100–1, 113, 127, 145, 148, 153, 160, 163

Rawlins, John, 56

Reynes, Sir Richard, 47

Reynolds, Anthony, 78

Reynolds, Robin, 5–6

Visscher Redrawn (2016), 6

Rhett, William, 139

Rich, Robert (second earl of Warwick), 189

Richardson, William, 105

Rogers, Francis, 111

Rotherhithe, 62, 81, 83, 99, 123, 126, 164

Rowe, Henry, 189

Rowe, Susan, 189

Royal Adventurers into Africa, 187

Royal African Company, 15, 20, 22–3, 65, 84, 90, 136–7, 141, 150, 153, 155–6, 159, 162–6, 170, 178, 187–8, 190–1

Royal coffee house, 15, 160, 166, 181

Royal Exchange, xxi, xxiii, 8, 14–18, 20, 22–4, 27, 29, 43, 67, 75, 117, 140–1, 145, 148, 155, 159–62, 164–6, 181, 183

runaway servants

advertisements, 29, 31, 32, 35, 199–200

runaway slave advertisements,

Caribbean, 118, 212–14

English, xxiv, 28, 35, 46, 53, 60, 63–4, 66, 71, 75–9, 81–3, 85–6, 88–9, 92–3, 95, 96–7, 99, 100–1, 105–11, 113–17, 122, 126–30, 133, 134–41, 143, 145–6, 148–9, 155, 167, 173, 175–87, 189–92, 217

North American colonies, xxix, 195, 212, 214

runaway slaves, see freedom seekers

sailors, xii, 12, 13, 55–6, 101, 126, 134, 141

Black, xxv, 44–7, 64, 83, 85, 89, 93, 114, 133, 142

Salvador, 182

St John, Lady Elizabeth, 185–7

St John, Sir Oliver, 186–7

Sambo, 65–6

Sarah, 60, 103

Sanders, Mary, 41

Sandwich, earl of, 85, 96

Scipio, 109

Scott, Anna, see Duchess of Monmouth

Scott, James, see Duke of Monmouth

servants

domestic, 8–12, 13, 55, 65–6, 73–9, 81–2, 85–93, 95–104, 120–1, 122–4, 127–8, 157–8, 167, 171, 173, 175–80, 181–6, 189–90, 217–18

female, 10–11, 46–7, 85, 87, 95–104, 107–8, 127, 177

livery, 11, 73–4, 92–3, 110, 114, 119, 122–3, 128, 149, 157, 163, 167, 178, 185, 190, 205, 217

male, 10–11, 13–14, 47–8, 65–6, 73–9, 82, 85–93, 120, 122–4, 127–8, 157–8, 159–63, 167, 171, 173, 175–6, 178–86, 189, 190, 217–18

runaway, 25, 28, 30–5, 63–4

Samuel Pepys and, 10–11, 31, 65, 73, 75

Seyntaubyn, John, 114

Shacklewell, 62, 189

Shackshoone, also known as John Newmoone, 88–91

Shadwell, 43, 62, 100, 106, 133, 134, 136, 143, 145

Shaftesbury, earl of, 54

ship-building, 5, 7, 11, 12, 43, 45, 62, 126, 143, 145, 146, 148–9, 160

Ship Tavern, Ratcliff Cross, 95, 100–1, 127

ships

Betty, 46

Blossom, 46–7

Carlisle, 46

Charles Galley, 140

Charles II, 88–9

Dragon, 139–40

Elizabeth, 46

Foresight, 65

Happy Return, 134–5

James and Francis, 137

John Bonadventure, 150–3

Loyal Merchant, 64, 141

Loyal Trade, 113

Maryland Merchant, 141, 183

Mayflower, 135

New Content, 138

Oxford, 145

Persia Merchant, 83, 99

Prize of Algier, 65

Providence, 138

Sarah Bonadventure, 150

St Jago, 137

Society, 180

Sussex, 139

Swallow, 171

Tiger, 77, 140

Shish, John, 77

Shish, Jonas, 11, 65, 126

Sinoben, 47

Skinner, Stephen, 192

Slave Coast, West Africa, 149–50

slavery

colonial laws related to slavery

Barbados, 198, 201–7

Slave code (1661, revised 1667), 203–7

Jamaica, 207–8

Maryland, 198–201

South Carolina, 208–9

Virginia, 198–201

of English in North Africa, 55–6

Smith, Joseph, 109–10

Smith, Richard, 25

Smith, William, 63

Smythe, Thomas, 36

South Carolina, xxvi, 36, 59–60, 103–4, 136, 139, 152, 177, 201–2, 207–9, 211, 214

South Carolina Gazette, 212, 214

Southwark, 5, 12,18, 44, 47–9, 62, 213

Spitalfields, 190

Stanley, Edward, 65

Star Inn, Fish Street Hill, 105

Stede, Sir Edwyn, 178–9, 192

Stegge, Thomas, 175–6

Stephen, 163, 191–2

Stepney, 7, 41, 46–7, 49, 62, 93, 101, 116, 136, 143

Stevens, William, 117, 122–3

Stockholm Syndrome, and enslaved people, 135

Sudbury, 62, 88

sugar, 8, 18, 36, 170–1, 173–4, 176, 191, 196, 203

Sugarr, David, 167, 173–5

Sunbury, 90

Surat, 36, 83, 99, 141

Surinam, 76, 167–8, 170–3

Swan, Charles, 46

Swan Tavern, 140

Symonds, John, 77, 140–1

Thames, docks, shipyards, stairs, and wharves

Bell Wharf, 53, 106, 133–4, 136

Blackwall shipyard, 45, 62, 146, 148

East Stairs, 123

Elephant Stairs, 81, 83

Hermitage Stairs, 143

St Katherine’s Stairs, 143

Shadwell Dock, 143

Wapping Stairs, 143

Thomas, James, 113–14

Thwaits, Mrs, 93

Tidcombe, Samuel, 178

Tilly, William, 195

Tobacco, 8, 36, 48, 73–4, 88, 107, 125, 134, 199, 200, 203

Toby, 78, 92

Toney, 127

Tony, 137, 192

Tower Hill, 191

Tower of London, xxii–xxiii, 5, 8, 13, 62, 77, 108, 129–32, 143, 167, 168, 172

Transatlantic Slave trade, xxvi, xxviii–ix, 34, 36, 51, 64–6, 74, 93, 109, 111, 117–18, 136, 163–4, 188, 190–2

Trinidad and Tobago, 41, 189

True Protestant Domestic Intelligence, 161

Tryon, Rowland, 133, 136–7, 192

Tryon, Thomas, 136, 192

Tudway, Rachel, 155

Tudway, Richard, 155, 157–8

Tunbridge Wells, 66

unnamed Black people, 11, 35, 41, 44, 46–7, 60, 75, 77, 85, 90, 92–3, 99, 100–1, 106, 110, 113–14, 120, 124, 127, 130, 139–41, 148–9, 153, 156, 160–1, 163, 167, 170, 181–2, 184, 190, 192, 212

Vernon’s coffee house, 15, 148, 166

Vickars, William, 140

Virginia, xi, xxvi, 23, 36, 56, 59–60, 71, 88–9, 115, 139, 175–7, 179, 183, 196–201

Virginia coffee house, 15, 141, 145, 160, 166

Virginia Gazette, 212

Visscher, Claes Jansz, 5–6

Londinum florentissima Britanniæ urbs (c.1625), 6

Vyle, Thomas, 161, 183. See also City Mercury

Wadlow, Captain, 137

Walker, William E., xi

Wapping, xxiii, 41–4, 49, 51, 62, 100, 143, 146, 148, 155

Washington, George and Martha, 57

Waters, Joseph, 140

Weld, Thomas, xxix

Weekly Jamaica Courant, 211–12

Westminster, 4, 5, 8, 31, 39, 49, 62, 92, 103, 184

White, John, 128

White, Nathaniel, 182

White, Robert

The Royall Exchange of London (1671), 16

Whitmarsh, Thomas, 214

Whitechapel, 49, 51, 62

William III, 30, 88, 165

Williams, Thomas, 47

Willoughby, Elizabeth, 170

Willoughby, Francis (Fifth Baron Willoughby of Parham), 167–73

Windsor, 62, 190

Woodfine, John, 143, 149–53

Woodfine, Thomas, 150

Wrexham, 62, 184

Yeames, James, 145–6, 148, 160, 192

York, duke of, 3, 65, 170, 187–8, see also James II

Yoruba, xxiii

Zebulon, 148, 160, 163

Zephania, 44–5