[482] An eminent lawyer, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the State of——, and a warm personal friend of mine, recently said to me, during an afternoon stroll, that he never knew that slavery was ever established by statute in any of the British colonies in North America.
[483] Statutes of S.C., vol. vii. p. 352.
[484] Virginia made slavery statutory as did other colonies, but we have no statute so explicit as the above. But slavery was slavery in all the colonies, cruel and hurtful.
[485] Statutes of S.C., vol. vii. p. 397.
[486] Statutes of S.C., vol. vii. pp. 397, 398.
[487] Ibid., vol. vii. pp. 343, 344.
[488] This Act, passed on the 16th of March, 1696, was made "perpetual" on the 12th of December, 1712. It remained throughout the entire period. See Statutes of S.C., vol. ii, p. 598.
[489] Statutes of S.C., vol. vii. p. 363.
[490] Statutes of S.C., vol. vii. pp. 359, 360.
[491] Statutes of S.C., vol. vii. 363.