FOOTNOTES:
[648] Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. pp. 4, 5.
[649] Twenty fifth Annual Report, United Brethren, 1881.
Part II
SLAVERY IN THE COLONIES.
CHAPTER XV.
CONDITION OF SLAVES IN MASSACHUSETTS.
The following memorandum in Judge Sewall's letter book was called forth by Samuel Smith, murderer of his Negro slave at Sandwich. It illustrates the deplorable condition of servants at that time in Massachusetts, and shows Judge Sewall to have been a man of great humanity.