FOOTNOTES: 

[514] Stephens’s Journal, vol. iii. p. 281.

[515] Freedom and Bondage, vol. i. p. 310, note.

[516] Stevens’s Hist. of Georgia, vol. i. p. 289.

[517] Bancroft, vol. iii. 12th ed. p. 427.

[518] Stevens’s Hist. of Georgia, vol. i. p. 307.

[519] Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii. pp. 90, 105, 208.

Part III.

THE NEGRO DURING THE REVOLUTION.

CHAPTER XXVI.

MILITARY EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES.

1775-1780.

     “Many black soldiers were in the service during all stages
     of the war.”—­SPARKS.

     THE COLONIAL STATES IN 1715.—­RATIFICATION OF THE
     NON-IMPORTATION ACT BY THE SOUTHERN COLONIES.—­GEORGE
     WASHINGTON PRESENTS RESOLUTIONS AGAINST SLAVERY, IN A
     MEETING AT FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, VA.—­LETTER WRITTEN BY
     BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO DEAN WOODWARD, PERTAINING TO
     SLAVERY.—­LETTER TO THE FREEMEN OF VIRGINIA FROM A
     COMMITTEE, CONCERNING THE SLAVES BROUGHT FROM
     JAMAICA.—­SEVERE TREATMENT OF SLAVES IN THE COLONIES
     MODIFIED.—­ADVERTISEMENT IN “THE BOSTON GAZETTE” OF THE
     RUNAWAY SLAVE CRISPUS ATTUCKS.—­THE BOSTON MASSACRE.—­ITS
     RESULTS.—­CRISPUS ATTUCKS SHOWS HIS LOYALTY.—­HIS SPIRITED
     LETTER TO THE TORY GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE.—­SLAVES
     ADMITTED INTO THE ARMY.—­THE CONDITION OF THE CONTINENTAL
     ARMY.—­SPIRITED DEBATE IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, OVER THE
     DRAUGHT OF A LETTER TO GEN.  WASHINGTON.—­INSTRUCTIONS TO
     DISCHARGE ALL SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES IN HIS ARMY.—­MINUTES
     OF THE MEETING HELD AT CAMBRIDGE.—­LORD DUNMORE’S
     PROCLAMATION.—­PREJUDICE THE SOUTHERN COLONIES.—­NEGROES IN
     VIRGINIA FLOCK TO THE BRITISH ARMY.—­CAUTION TO THE NEGROES
     PRINTED IN A WILLIAMSBURG PAPER.—­THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION
     ANSWERS THE PROCLAMATION OF LORD DUNMORE.—­GEN.  GREENE, IN A
     LETTER TO GEN.  WASHINGTON, CALLS ATTENTION TO THE RAISING OF
     A NEGRO REGIMENT ON STATEN ISLAND.—­LETTER FROM A HESSIAN
     OFFICER.—­CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE ON THE SUBJECT OF
     EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES AS SOLDIERS.—­GEN.  VARNUM’S LETTER TO
     GEN.  WASHINGTON, SUGGESTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES, SENT
     TO GOV.  COOKE.—­THE GOVERNOR REFERS VARNUM’S LETTER TO THE
     GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—­MINORITY PROTEST AGAINST ENLISTING SLAVES
     TO SERVE IN THE ARMY.—­MASSACHUSETTS TRIES TO SECURE LEGAL
     ENLISTMENTS OF NEGRO TROOPS.—­LETTER OF THOMAS KENCH TO THE
     COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, BOSTON, MASS.—­NEGROES
     SERVE IN WHITE ORGANIZATIONS UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN
     REVOLUTION.—­NEGRO SOLDIERS SERVE IN VIRGINIA.—­MARYLAND
     EMPLOY NEGROES.—­NEW