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[119] A Flemish favorite of Charles V. having obtained of his king a patent, containing an exclusive right of importing four thousand Negroes into America, sold it for twenty-five thousand ducats to some Genoese merchants, who first brought into a regular form the commerce for slaves between Africa and America.--Holmes's American Annals, vol. i. p. 35.
[120] R. Beverley's History of Virginia, pp. 35, 36.
[121] See Campbell, p. 144; Burk, vol. i. p. 326.
[122] Smith, vol. ii pp. 38, 39.
[123] Smith's History of Virginia, vol. ii. p. 39.
[124] Virginia Company of London, p. 117, sq.
[125] Campbell, p. 144.
[126] Burk, vol. I. p. 319.
[127] Neill, p. 120.
[128] Smith, vol. II. p. 37.
[129] There were two vessels, The Treasurer and the Dutch man-of-war; but the latter, no doubt, put the first slaves ashore.
[130] Campbell, p. 144.
[131] Burk, Appendix, p. 316, Declaration of Virginia Company, 7th May, 1623.
[132] See Burk, vol. i. p. 326.
[133] Stith, Book III. pp. 153, 154.
[134] Beverley, 235, sq.
[135] Campbell, 147.
[136] Beverley, p. 248.
[137] Court and Times of James First, ii. p. 108; also, Neill p. 121.
[138] Bancroft, vol. i. p. 468.
[139] Neill, p. 121.
[140] Hist. Tracts, vol. ii. Tract viii.
[141] Beverley, p. 236.
[142] Campbell, p. 145.
[143] Hening, vol. i. p. 146; also p. 552.
[144] Hening, vol. i. p 226.
[145] Bancroft, vol. i. p. 178.
[146] Hening, vol. i. p. 540.
[147] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 84.
[148] Hening, vol. i. p. 396.
[149] Burk, vol. ii. Appendix, p. xxiii.
[150] Beverley, p. 235.
[151] Hening, vol. ii. p. 170; see, also, vol. iii. p. 140.
[152] Beverley, p. 195.
[153] Hening, vol. i. p. 396.
[154] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 283.
[155] Campbell, p. 160; also Bacon's Rebellion.
[156] Hening, vol. ii. pp. 490, 491.
[157] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 260; see, also, vol. iii. p. 460.
[158] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 333.
[159] Hening, vol. iii. pp. 334, 335.
[160] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 448; see, also, vol. v. p. 548.
[161] Hildreth, in his History of the United States, says that the law making "Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians" real estate "continued to be the law so long as Virginia remained a British colony." This is a mistake, as the reader can see. The law was repealed nearly a quarter of a century before Virginia ceased to be a British colony.
[162] Hening, vol. v. p. 432, sq.
[163] Beverley, p. 98.
[164] Hening, vol. iii, pp. 193, 194.
[165] Hening, vol. iii. p. 195.
[166] Burk, vol. ii. Appendix, p. xxii.
[167] Hening, vol. iv. p. 394.
[168] Ibid., vol, v. pp. 92, 93.
[169] Ibid., vol. v. pp. 160, 161.
[170] Ibid., vol. v. pp. 318, 319.
[171] Ibid., vol. vi. pp. 217, 218.
[172] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 466.
[173] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 81.
[174] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 281.
[175] Hening, vol. vii, p. 338.
[176] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 363.
[177] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 383.
[178] Ibid., vol. viii. pp. 190, 191, 237, 336, 337.
[179] Ibid., vol. viii, pp. 530, 532.
[180] Ibid., vol. i. p. 226.
[181] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 251.
[182] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 459; also vol. iv. p. 131, vol. vi. p. 109, and vol. ii. p. 481.
[183] Hening., vol. vi. p. 110.
[184] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 481.
[185] Ibid., vol. ii p. 270.
[186] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 493.
[187] Ibid., vol. iii, p. 451.
[188] Ibid., vol. iii. pp. 459, 460.
[189] Ibid., vol. viii. p. 360.
[190] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 298.
[191] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 327.
[192] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 103.
[193] Ibid., vol. iii, p. 270, and vol. iv. p. 128.
[194] Hening, vol. iv. p. 126, and vol. vi. p. 104, sq.
[195] Ibid., vol. viii. p. 139.
[196] Ibid., vol. viii. p. 522.
[197] Ibid., vol. viii. p. 523.
[198] Ibid., vol. viii. pp. 536, 537.
[199] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 132.
[200] Ibid., vol. vi, p. 112.
[201] Hening, vol. iii. pp. 87, 88.
[202] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 267.
[203] Ibid., vol. iv. pp. 133, 134.
[204] Ibid., vol. iv, p. 133.
[205] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 95; and vol. vi. p. 533.
[206] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 131.
[207] Ibid., vol. iii. p. 87.
[208] Campbell, p. 529.
[209] Burk, vol. ii. Appendix, p. xiii.
[210] Foot's Sketches, First Series, p. 291.
[211] Hening, vol. ii. p. 517.
[212] Hening, vol. ii. p. 518.
[213] Campbell, p. 383.
[214] Chalmers's American Colonies, vol. ii. p. 7.