[32] Turner, _The Negro in Penn._, p. 25; Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, pp. 30, 31. [33] Ante, note 30: "It was but natural then that they should be absorbed in a growing system which spread to all the colonies and for nearly a century furnished the chief supply for colonial labor." Ballagh, _White Servitude in the Colony of Va._, pp. 14, 27, 49. Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, pp. 32. [34] The Company secured servants for the colony. Stevens, _History of Ga._, p. 290; Ballagh, _White Servitude in the Col. of Va._, p. 15. [35] The Trustees of Georgia held out on account of philanthropic motives. See Du Bois, _Suppression of the Slave Trade_, pp. 7, 8, 26; Declaration of one of the trustees, Stevens, _Hist. of Ga._, p. 287. [36] Moore, _Notes on the History of Slavery in Mass._, p. 50. Du Bois, _Suppression of African Slave Trade_, p. 15. [37] In Providence in 1633, "it was recommended that twenty or thirty negroes be introduced for public work, and that they be separated among various families of officers and industrious planters to prevent the formation of plots. Some of these negroes received wages and purchased their freedom, and the length of servitude seems to have been dependent on the time of conversion to Christianity." Lefroy, _The History, of the Bermudaes_, p. 219. Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, pp. 29, 30, notes. The Dutch dealt with the early Negroes in a similar way. "In practice the heavy duty imposed by the Company seems to have discouraged any large importation. As a natural consequence, too, most of those imported seem to have been in the employment of the Company. Thus we learn that the fort at New Amsterdam was mainly built by negro labor. The Company seems wisely to have made arrangements whereby its slaves should be gradually absorbed in the free population. In 1644 an ordinance was passed emancipating the slaves of the Company after a fixed period of service." Doyle, _Eng. Cols. in Am._, IV, p. 49. [38] Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, p. 33. [39] Carroll, _Hist. Coll._, I, p. 27. [40] _Ibid._, p. 29. [41] _Ibid._, p. 29. [42] Russell, _The Free Negro in Va._, pp. 16, 23; Ballagh, _Hist. of Slavery in Va._, p. 29 notes; Brown, _The First Republic in Am._, p. 326. Thomas Jefferson said, "the right to these negroes was common, or, perhaps they lived on a footing with the whites, who, as well as themselves, were under absolute direction of the president." Russell, _The Free Negro in Va._, p. 24. [43] _Ibid._, 23, 24; Ballagh, _History of Slavery in Va._, 28, 31; Phillips, _Am. Negro Slavery_, p. 75. [44] Henning, I, pp. 146, 226. [45] The first time the term "slave" is used in the statutes was in these words: "If the Indians shall bring in any children as gages of their good and quiet intentions to us, ... that we will not use them as slaves." Henning, I, p. 296.