[5] Ibid., VII. 433-6, 444, 447.

  [6] Ibid., VII. 449.

  [7] Martin, Iredell’s Acts of Assembly, I. 492.

  [8] Ibid., II. 53.

  [9] Cf. Ibid., II. 94; Laws of North Carolina (revision of
      1819), I. 786.

 [10] Virginia codified her whole slave legislation in 1792
      (Va.  Statutes at Large, New Ser., I. 122), and amended her
      laws in 1798 and 1806 (Ibid., III. 251).

 [11] Dorsey, Laws of Maryland, 1796, I. 334.

 [12] Laws of Delaware, 1797 (Newcastle ed.), p. 942, ch. 194 b.

 [13] Dallas, Laws, II. 586.

 [14] Paterson, Digest of the Laws of New Jersey (1800), pp.
      307-13.  In 1804 New Jersey passed an act gradually to abolish
      slavery.  The legislation of New York at this period was
      confined to regulating the exportation of slave criminals
      (1790), and to passing an act gradually abolishing slavery
      (1799).  In 1801 she codified all her acts.

 [15] Acts and Laws of Connecticut (ed. 1784), pp. 368, 369, 388.

 [16] Ibid., p. 412.

 [17] Perpetual Laws of Massachusetts, 1780-89, pp. 235-6.

 [18] Queries Respecting Slavery, etc., in Mass.  Hist.  Soc. 
      Coll., 1st Ser., IV. 205.

 [19] Annals of Cong., 1 Cong, 1 sess. pp. 336-41.

 [20] Annals of Cong., 1 Cong. 1 sess. p. 903.

 [21] Ibid., 1 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1182-3.

 [22] Journals of Cong., 1782-3, pp. 418-9.  Cf. above, pp.
      56-57.

 [23] Annals of Cong., 1 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1184.

 [24] Ibid., pp. 1182-91.

 [25] Annals of Cong., 1 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1197-1205.

 [26] House Journal (repr. 1826), 1 Cong. 2 sess.  I. 157-8.

 [27] Annals of Cong., I Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1413-7.

 [28] For the reports and debates, cf. Annals of Cong., 1
      Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1413-7, 1450-74; House Journal (repr.
      1826), 1 Cong. 2 sess.  I. 168-81.

 [29] A clerical error in the original:  “interdict” and
      “regulate” should be interchanged.

 [30] See Memorials presented to Congress, etc. (1792),
      published by the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

 [31] From the Virginia petition.

 [32] From the petition of Baltimore and other Maryland
      societies.

 [33] From the Providence Abolition Society’s petition.

 [34] House Journal (repr. 1826), 2 Cong. 2 sess.  I. 627-9;
      Annals of Cong., 2 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 728-31.

 [35] Annals of Cong., 3 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 64, 70, 72; House
      Journal (repr. 1826), 3 Cong. 1 sess.  II. 76, 84-5, 96-100;
      Senate Journal (repr. 1820), 3 Cong. 1 sess.  II. 51.