[17] Brackett, The Negro in Md., p. 38.
[18] Bassett, Slavery and Servitude in the Col. of N. C., pp. 18-20.
[19] Henry, Police Control of the Slave in S. C., p. 3.
[20] Post, p. 262, note 10.
[21] Turner, The Negro in Penn., pp. 1-3.
[22] Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Mass., pp. 5, 48; Palfrey, Hist. of N. E., p. 30.
[23] "They have store of children, and are well accommodated with Servants;——of these some are English, others Negroes: of the English there are can eat till they sweat, and work till they freeze; and of the females they are like Mrs. Wintus paddocks, very tinder fingered in cold weather." Account of Two Voyages to N. E., pp. 28, 139-140.
[24] Moore, Notes on the Hist. of Slavery in Mass., pp. 48-49.
[25] Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Virginia, pp. 2, 3, 34.
[26] "The main ideas on which servitude was based originated in the early history of Virginia as a purely English colonial development before the other colonies were formed. The system was adopted in them with its outline already defined, requiring only local legislation to give it specific character...." (Ballagh, White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia, p. 9.) The status of servitude, customary and legal, similar to that given the Negroes in Virginia is as a rule met with in several of the colonies.