Footnotes
[1] These figures are from the Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, etc. (London, 1789).
[2] Sheffield, Observations on American Commerce, p. 28; P.L. Ford, The Association of the First Congress, in Political Science Quarterly, VI. 615–7.
[3] Cf., e.g., Arthur Lee's letter to R.H. Lee, March 18, 1774, in which non-intercourse is declared "the only advisable and sure mode of defence": Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 229. Cf. also Ibid., p. 240; Ford, in Political Science Quarterly, VI. 614–5.
[4] Goodloe, Birth of the Republic, p. 260.
[5] Staples, Annals of Providence (1843), p. 235.
[6] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 735. This was probably copied from the Virginia resolve.
[7] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 600.
[8] Ibid., I. 494, 530. Cf. pp. 523, 616, 641, etc.
[9] Ibid., I. 687.
[10] Ibid., I. 511, 526. Cf. also p. 316.
[11] Journals of Cong., I. 20. Cf. Ford, in Political Science Quarterly, VI. 615–7.
[12] John Adams, Works, II. 382.
[13] Journals of Cong., I. 21.
[14] Ibid., I. 24; Drayton; Memoirs of the American Revolution, I. 147; John Adams, Works, II. 394.
[15] Journals of Cong., I. 27, 32–8.
[16] Danbury, Dec. 12, 1774: Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1038. This case and that of Georgia are the only ones I have found in which the slave-trade clause was specifically mentioned.
[17] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1033, 1136, 1160, 1163; II. 279–281, 1544; Journals of Cong., May 13, 15, 17, 1775.
[18] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1136.
[19] Ibid., II. 279–81.
[20] Ibid., I. 1160.
[21] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1163.
[22] Journals of Cong., May 13, 15, 1775.
[23] Ibid., May 17, 1775.
[24] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., II. 1545.
[25] Drayton, Memoirs of the American Revolution, I. 182. Cf. pp. 181–7; Ramsay, History of S. Carolina, I. 231.
[26] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., II. 33–4.
[27] Journals of Cong., II. 122.
[28] Clarkson, Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, pp. 125–8.
[29] Ibid., pp. 25–6.
[30] Ibid.
[31] Jefferson, Works (Washington, 1853–4), I. 23–4. On the Declaration as an anti-slavery document, cf. Elliot, Debates (1861), I. 89.
[32] Jefferson, Works (Washington, 1853–4), I. 19.
[33] Clarkson, Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, pp. 25–6; Report, etc., as above.
[34] Witness the many high duty acts on slaves, and the revenue derived therefrom. Massachusetts had sixty distilleries running in 1783. Cf. Sheffield, Observations on American Commerce, p. 267.
[35] Elliot, Debates, I. 72–3. Cf. Art. 8 of the Articles of Confederation.
[36] Journals of Cong., 1781, June 25; July 18; Sept. 21, 27; Nov. 8, 13, 30; Dec. 4.
[37] Ibid., 1782–3, pp. 418–9, 425.
[38] Annals of Cong., 1 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1183.
[39] Cf. above, chapters ii., iii., iv.