[27] Post, p. 254, note 33.
[28] Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., pp. 28, 29, 34.
[29] White servitude had recognition in statute law by 1630-36 in Massachusetts, by 1643 in Connecticut, by 1647 in Rhode Island, by 1619 in Virginia, by 1637 in Maryland, by 1665 in North Carolina, by 1682 in Pennsylvania, and by 1732 in Georgia. Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., pp. 36, 37. Russell, The Free Negro in Va., pp. 18, 19, 22, 29.
[30] Statutory recognition of slavery by the American colonies occurred as follows: Massachusetts, 1641; Connecticut, 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, 1700; North Carolina, 1715; and Georgia, 1755. Prior to these dates the legal status of all subject Negroes was that of servants, and their rights, duties, and disabilities were regulated by legislation the same as, or similar to, that applied to white servants. Ballagh, Hist. of Servitude in Va., pp. 34, 35.
[31] Russell, The Free Negroes in Va., p. 29.
[32] Turner, The Negro in Penn., p. 25; Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., pp. 30, 31.
[33] Ante, note 30: "It was but natural then that they should be absorbed in a growing system which spread to all the colonies and for nearly a century furnished the chief supply for colonial labor." Ballagh, White Servitude in the Colony of Va., pp. 14, 27, 49. Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., pp. 32.
[34] The Company secured servants for the colony. Stevens, History of Ga., p. 290; Ballagh, White Servitude in the Col. of Va., p. 15.
[35] The Trustees of Georgia held out on account of philanthropic motives. See Du Bois, Suppression of the Slave Trade, pp. 7, 8, 26; Declaration of one of the trustees, Stevens, Hist. of Ga., p. 287.
[36] Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Mass., p. 50. Du Bois, Suppression of African Slave Trade, p. 15.