[477] The following were the instructions his lordship received, concerning the treatment of Negro slaves: "You shall endeavour to get a law past for the restraining of any inhuman severity, which by ill masters or overseers may be used towards their Christian servants and their slaves, and that provision be made therein that the wilfull killing of Indians and negroes may be punished with death, and that a fit penalty be emposed for the maiming of them."--_Freedom and Bondage_, vol. i. p. 280, note. [478] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 284. [479] Hurd, vol. i. p. 285. [480] Hurd, vol. i. p 285. [481] American Annals, vol. ii. pp. 127, 143. CHAPTER XXI. THE COLONY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 1665-1775. THE CAROLINAS RECEIVE TWO DIFFERENT CHARTERS FROM THE CROWN OF GREAT BRITAIN.--ERA OF SLAVERY LEGISLATION.--LAW ESTABLISHING SLAVERY.--THE SLAVE POPULATION OF THIS PROVINCE REGARDED AS CHATTEL PROPERTY.--TRIAL OF SLAVES.--INCREASE OF SLAVE POPULATION.--THE INCREASE IN THE RICE TRADE.--SEVERE LAWS REGULATING THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CONDUCT OF SLAVE.--PUNISHMENT OF SLAVES FOR RUNNING AWAY.--THE LIFE OF SLAVES REGARDED AS OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE BY THE VIOLENT MASTER CLASS.--AN ACT EMPOWERING TWO JUSTICES OF THE PEACE TO INVESTIGATE TREATMENT OF SLAVES.--AN ACT PROHIBITING THE OVERWORKING OF SLAVES.--SLAVE-MARKET AT CHARLESTON.--INSURRECTION.--A LAW AUTHORIZING THE CARRYING OF FIRE-ARMS AMONG THE WHITES.--THE ENLISTMENT OF SLAVES TO SERVE IN TIME OF ALARM.--NEGROES ADMITTED TO THE MILITIA SERVICE.--COMPENSATION TO MASTERS FOR THE LOSS OF SLAVES KILLED BY THE ENEMY OR WHO DESERT.--FEW SLAVES MANUMITTED.--FROM 1754-1776 LITTLE LEGISLATION ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY.--THREATENING WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND HER PROVINCIAL DEPENDENCIES.--THE EFFECT UPON PUBLIC SENTIMENT. The Carolinas received two different charters from the crown of Great Britain. The first was witnessed by the king at Westminster, March 24, 1663; the second, June 30, 1665. The last charter was surrendered to the king by seven of the eight proprietors on the 25th July, 1729. The government became regal; and the Province was immediately divided into North and South Carolina by an order of the British Council, and the boundaries between the two governments fixed.