[Footnote 17: Boston Gazette, Oct. 2, 1750; G. W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, I. 330.] [Footnote 18: Liberator, March 16, 1860.] [Footnote 19: W. C. Nell's Address at the Nineteenth Anniversary of Boston Massacre.] [Footnote 20: Moore, Slavery in Massachusetts, 117.] [Footnote 21: Appendix A, No 3; Appendix D, No. 10.] [Footnote 22: See _ante_, § 2.] [Footnote 23: N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, XIII. 238; Letter from Jacob Aldrich to Director Stuyvesant of New Netherlands, New Amstel, 14 May, 1659; Documentary History of N. Y. Colony, II. 556; Appendix D, No. 2.] [Footnote 24: Appendix A, No. 8, Gilman, History of the American People, 605.] [Footnote 25: N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, I. 342; Doyle, English in America, I. 391.] [Footnote 26: Maryland Archives, II. 523.] [Footnote 27: Appendix A, No. 37.] [Footnote 28: Acts and Laws of Connecticut, 229.] [Footnote 29: N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, V. 637; Appendix D, No. 4.] [Footnote 30: N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, V. 793.] [Footnote 31: Appendix A, Nos. 50, 59.] [Footnote 32: Giddings, Exiles of Florida, 281; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, I. 122.] [Footnote 33: _Ante_, § 8.] [Footnote 34: Letter from William Beekman to Director Stuyvesant, in N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, XIII. 346; Appendix D, No. 3.] [Footnote 35: N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, XIII. 346.] [Footnote 36: Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 28; Doyle, English in America, I. 391; compare Appendix A, No. 14.] [Footnote 37: John Winthrop, History of New England from 1630 to 1649, p. 383; Appendix D, No. 1.] [Footnote 38: Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of Council, 1636-1667, pp. 134, 135.] [Footnote 39: Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of Council, III. 472.] [Footnote 40: Letter from M. de la Jonquière to M. de Rouillé, in N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, X. 209; Appendix D, No. 5.] [Footnote 41: Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Third Series, IX. 2; Appendix D, No. 7.] [Footnote 42: J. Quincy, Reports of Cases, 96; Appendix D, No. 8.] [Footnote 43: Moore, Slavery in Massachusetts, 117; T. R. Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 2, Law of Negro Slavery, 164; Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Third Series, IX. 2; Josiah Quincy, Reports of Cases, 96; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, II.] [Footnote 44: Appendix B, No. 1.] [Footnote 45: Appendix B, Nos. 3, 5.] [Footnote 46: Appendix B, No. 2.] [Footnote 47: Post, § 22.] [Footnote 48: Randall, Jefferson, I. 397-400; Winsor, VII. 528; Journals of Congress, IX. 153-156.] [Footnote 49: Appendix B, No. 4; Journals of Congress, X. 79; Bancroft, History of the U. S. (last rev.), VI. 132-134; Bancroft, Constitution, I. 178-180; Hildreth, III. 458.] [Footnote 50: Appendix B, No. 6. On the Northwest Ordinance in general, see Winsor, VII. 538; J. H. Merriam, Legislative History of the Ordinance of 1787 (Worcester, 1888); Lalor's Cyclopædia, III. 30-34.]