To judge from the frequent newspaper advertisements of runaways, the Indian slaves of the English colonists were at least comfortably dressed. The following are typical extracts from the newspapers of the various colonies: “a black crape gown and a striped stuff jacket”; “a blue flannel petticoat, a dark Estamine gown and a double striped gown”;[919] “a grey coat with pewter buttons, with leather breeches, an old tow shirt, grey stockings, good shoes and felt hat”;[920] “a green hat and yellow breeches”;[921] “an orange colored broadcloth coat, with a narrow cape, and a flannel jacket with narrow stripes, a cotton shirt, and a loose pair of Oxenbridge trousers ... a beaver hat, and had a bundle of clothes with him”;[922] “an old blue coat, striped flannel jacket, pretty good hat, black wig, linen trousers, white yarn stockings, and an old pair of mended shoes”;[923] “a good felt hat, orange colored jacket, thick leather breeches, checked wool shirt, light grey stockings and pretty good shoes”:[924] “pea-jacket of light brown, leather breeches, shoes, stockings and hat”;[925] “a drugat waistcoat and kersey petticoat of a light color”.[926] From these advertisements it appears that the slaves were dressed much like the colonists themselves, though doubtless their clothing often consisted of “cast offs”. In the Carolinas where slaves were more numerous, coarse goods were imported by the planters for slaves’ clothing. Mention is found of “serge suits for the servant maids, of coarse kerseys, tufted holland jackets, etc.”, with which the plantation was wont to be supplied for the slaves and convict servants. These were used in addition to cloth woven and made into clothes by the women of the household.[927] Generally kind as the treatment of Indian slaves may have been, the sentiment of the English colonists was quite opposed to the intermingling of whites and Indians, bond or free, even if in the early history of Virginia there was some effort made to encourage the marriage of whites and free Indians.[928] It was natural, therefore, that definite action should be taken to prevent the marriage of free whites and Indian slaves. In 1691, Virginia passed an act forbidding the union of free whites with Indians whether slave or free; but there seems to have been no provision against marriage of negroes or Indians with white indentured servants.[929] The provision, perhaps, was unnecessary, for the consent of the white indentured servant’s master was necessary for the validity of such a union, and such consent was usually refused because of the strong prejudice against race mixture.[930]