[45] The first time the term "slave" is used in the statutes was in these words: "If the Indians shall bring in any children as gages of their good and quiet intentions to us, ... that we will not use them as slaves." Henning, I, p. 296.

[46] In Henning, Statutes I, p. 540, it is said: "That if the said Dutch or other foreigners shall import any negroes, they the said Dutch or others shall, for the tobacco really produced by the sale of the said negro, pay only the impost of two shillings per hogshead, the like being paid by our own nation."

[47] Henning, II, p. 26.

[48] Russell, The Free Negro in Va., p. 20, note 13.

[49] Ibid., pp. 23, 24; Hotten, List of Immigrants to Am., pp. 202, etc.

The "Lists of the Living and Dead in Virginia, Feb. 16th, 1623," shows that there were twenty or more Negroes in the Colony; these Negroes are referred to as servants not slaves. Col. Records of Va., p. 37, etc.

[50]

"Captain Francis West, His Muster.
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Servants
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John Pedro, A Neger, aged 30, in the Swan, 1623."

Va. Carolorum, p. 15.