[15] Smith, History of New Jersey (1765), p. 254; Sainsbury,
      Cal.  State Papers, Col.  Ser., America and W. Indies,
      1669-74., Sec.Sec. 367, 398, 812.

 [16] N.C.  Col.  Rec., V. 1118.  For similar instructions, cf.
      Penn.  Archives, I. 306; Doc. rel.  Col.  Hist.  New York, VI.
      34; Gordon, History of the American Revolution, I. letter 2;
      Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll., 4th Ser.  X. 642.

 [17] These figures are from the above-mentioned Report, Vol. 
      II.  Part IV.  Nos. 1, 5.  See also Bancroft, History of the
      United States (1883), II. 274 ff; Bandinel, Account of the
      Slave Trade, p. 63; Benezet, Caution to Great Britain, etc.,
      pp. 39-40, and Historical Account of Guinea, ch. xiii.

 [18] Compare earlier slave codes in South Carolina, Georgia,
      Jamaica, etc.; also cf.  Benezet, Historical Account of
      Guinea, p. 75; Report, etc., as above.

[19] Sainsbury, Cal.  State Papers, Col.  Ser., America and W.
Indies, 1574-1660, pp. 229, 271, 295; 1661-68, Sec.Sec. 61, 412,
826, 1270, 1274, 1788; 1669-74., Sec.Sec. 508, 1244; Bolzius and
Von Reck, Journals (in Force, Tracts, Vol.  IV.  No. 5, pp.
9, 18); Proceedings of Governor and Assembly of Jamaica in
regard to the Maroon Negroes (London, 1796).

[20] Sainsbury, Cal.  State Papers, Col.  Ser., America and W.
Indies, 1661-68, Sec. 1679.

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Chapter II

THE PLANTING COLONIES.

3.  Character of these Colonies. 4.  Restrictions in Georgia. 5.  Restrictions in South Carolina. 6.  Restrictions in North Carolina. 7.  Restrictions in Virginia. 8.  Restrictions in Maryland. 9.  General Character of these Restrictions.

3. Character of these Colonies. The planting colonies are those Southern settlements whose climate and character destined them to be the chief theatre of North American slavery.  The early attitude of these communities toward the slave-trade is therefore of peculiar interest; for their action was of necessity largely decisive for the future of the trade and for the institution in North America.  Theirs was the only soil, climate, and society suited to slavery; in the other colonies, with few exceptions, the institution was by these same factors doomed from the beginning.  Hence, only strong moral and political motives could in the planting colonies overthrow or check a traffic so favored by the mother country.