[17] Ibid., pp. 24, 25; Stroud, Laws Relating to Slavery, pp. 9-10.
[18] Hurd, The Law of Freedom and Bondage, I, 290; Turner, The Free Negro in Penn., p. 92.
[19] "On the 1st of March, 1780, before the war of the Revolution was closed, the Assembly of Pennsylvania passed an act declaring that negro and mulatto children whose mothers were slaves, and who were born after the passage of the act, should be free, and that slavery as to them should be forever abolished. But it was declared that such children should be held as servants, under the same terms as indentured servants, until the age of twenty-eight, when they should be free...." Watson, Annals of Philadelphia and Penn. in Olden Times, pp. 468-469.
[20] Ibid., pp. 93, 94, 98, 101.
[21] Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., p. 32.
[22] Ibid., p. 36.
[23] R. I., Col. Rec., I, p. 243.
[24] Du Bois, Suppression of the Slave Trade, p. 34.
[25] Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, I, p. 270; Steiner, Hist. of Slavery in Conn., p. 12.
[26] Conn., Col. Rec., XV, p. 40.