[689] By the act of 1705 already cited: Acts and Resolves, I, 578.
[690] So in the Pequot War: 4 Mass. Hist. Coll., III, 360; in King Philip's War; and by the Articles of Confederation (1643), in Plymouth Col. Rec., IX, 4. Compare Moore, Notes on Hist. of Slavery in Mass., 1-10, 30-40.
[691] For an interesting discussion of this point see Bliss's chapter on "Rum and Slavery," Side-Glimpses from the Col. Meeting-House, 12 ff.; and Weeden, Ecc. and Soc. Hist., II, 449-72. Such men as Peter Faneuil and Thomas Amory, of Boston, were "deep" in the rum and slavery business: Bliss, op. cit., 15.
[692] For examples of advertisements of slave auctions in New England see Bliss, op. cit., 15-19.
[693] "A deacon of the church at Newport esteemed the slave trade with its rum accessories as home missionary work. It is said that on the first Sunday after the arrival of his slaves he was accustomed to offer thanks 'that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to this land of freedom another cargo of benighted heathen to enjoy the blessings of a Gospel dispensation.'"—Bliss, op. cit., 22. In general on the slave trade as missionary work see Froude, History of England, VIII, 439.
[694] Bancroft, Hist. of U. S. (New York, 1888), II, 275, 276. On this subject see Bruce, Economic Hist. of Virginia, II, 94-98; the discussion by Fiske, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, I, 16; II, 192-94; and Goodwin, The Colonial Cavalier, 178, who says: "Baptism was permitted to the slave, but with the distinct understanding that it was to make no difference in the condition of bondage of these brothers in Christ." The Virginia law of 1667 will be found in Hening, Statutes, II, 260.
[695] It was consecrated "sans égard à la religion de l'esclave": Carlier, Histoire du peuple américain, I, 364; cf. also Hildreth, Hist. of U. S., I, 372.
[696] Bliss, op. cit., 92.
[697] Taken from Moore, Notes on Hist. of Slavery in Mass., 92, note, who cites Records as Reported by Rev. C. Chapin, D.D., Quoted in Jones's Religious Instruction of the Negroes, 34. Cf. Steiner, "Hist. of Slavery in Conn.," J. H. U. S., XI, 386.
[698] Athenian Oracle, II, 460-63: in Moore, Notes on Hist. of Slavery in Mass., 93, 94.