So ^eat a shock to the Christian religion was the idea of holding property in man when first suggested, that one of the first excuses was that the African was a heathen whom slavery would convert then when the injustice of holding a fellow Christian in bonds was apparent, it was affirmed by statute that "conversion to or acceptance of Christianity does not presume or effect manumission either in person or posterity" so legislated Maryland in 1692, and Virsections The attitude of the colonies in different times
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Slave Code embodies statutes which show in an unmistak. See The Status of the Slave, 1775-1789, J. The circulation of the celebrated tract, "The Selling of Joseph" by the Colonial Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, was also a great factor in the growth of sentiment against slavery. aloud and spared not were the followers of George Fox. Exception must be made as to the Quakers, whose protest inīy an appeal in 1696 against any of their religious belief bringing in any more Negroes, and by their action at intervals The majority of the men who cried in the eighteenth century. it were by individuals rather than by communities and classes. While the objection to the idea of property in man was the Protests against it was by no means universal. Mentioned the slave population was more than that of the Time 42 whites to 1 black in New England, 13 whites to 1 black in the middle colonies, while in the five southern colonies last In New England, 25,000 New Georgia, distributed as follows York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, 50,000 in the remaining colonies of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina and Georgia, 425,000.
Negroes were in the colonies along the coast from Maine to
Was a thing, a piece of personal property, and the laws recognizing and regulating it were framed with By 1775 more than 300,000 rigidity and executed with severity. In both North and South the status of the slave was the same. Whereas the raising of tobacco in Virginia, rice in South Carolina, also cotton, favored the employment of a large number of slaves in the southern section of our country. 7 Slavery in New York, an historical sketch, A. The African was fitted for service and the character, size and locaonly as an England and the Middle States intion of the farms in NewīLalor's Cyclopedia. There was some difference between slavery in the North and nitions of slavery, by acts of 17, to regulate the conduct of servants and slaves and masters. In 1636, a Salem ship began the importation of slaves from the "West Indies, but in 1641 it was forbidden in the fundamental The statutes of New Hampshire show only two legal recoglaw. In Massachusetts slavery was incidentally recognized in 1633. Was in 1626 while New York was the Dutch colony of New Netherlands that African serfdom was introduced, but it received legal recognition in 1665.*' The traffic was never directly specifically established in Connecticut by statute, and the time of its introduction is unknown.^ In Rhode Island, May 19, 1652, the first act for the abolition of slavery was passed, but the law was not enforced. In 1700 the legislature forbade beyond the borders of the State without the consent ofĪlso the responsibility of bringing slavery Was in 1755.^ Although slavery existed in Pennsylvania from the establishment of the colony, and was due to the Germans rather than the Quakers, a protest against it was made in 1688 by the Germantown Quakers. The time of the establishment of the colony by Oglethorpe in Locke Brittanica Encyclopedia.īut owing to popular clamor this prohibition was refirst legislative The charter of Georgia prohibited slavery at In North Carolina white slavery was provided for in the Locke Constitution of 1673.* In South Carolina the first legislation respecting it was February 7, 1690, before the two colonies were separated. Though it had existed in the colony as early as 1666. The Swedes prohibited its establishment in Delaware, but the Dutch In Maryland, slaves were first mentioned incidentally in a proposed law of 1638, four years after its settlement. Slavery was thus legalized in this colony. Migrants under indenture), and servants for life (slaves)." The civil law rule as to descent was adopted by statute December Eight years later, October 3, 1670, servants not Chris14, 1662. Passed were "for the mere regulation of servants, the legal distinction between servants for a term of years (white im. Positive law to establish or control it." Contrary to general belief, Negro Slavery in the colonies never existed nor was it originally established by law, but it rested wholly on custom.* Slavery where it existed, being the creature of custom, required
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