[39] Ibid., p. 50.
[40] Ibid., pp. 52-53; Bassett, Slavery and White Servitude in the Col. of N. C., p. 79; Ballagh, White Servitude in the Col. of Va., p. 54.
[41] McCormac, White Servitude in Md., p. 54.
[42] "Statute after statute was passed regulating the punishment and providing for the pursuit and recapture of runaways; but although laws became severer and finally made no distinction in treatment of runaway servants and slaves, it was impossible to entirely put a stop to the habit so long as the system itself lasted." Ibid., p. 56; Ballagh, White Servitude in the Col. of Va., pp. 52, 57.
[43] Ibid., p. 57.
[44] Ibid., pp. 57-58; Henning, Statutes at Large, II, p. 458.
[45] McCormac, White Servitude in Md., pp. 51-52.
[46] Ballagh, White Servitude in the Col. of Va., p. 59.
[47] "As a result, (my comma) the idea of the contract and of the legal personality of the servant was gradually lost sight of in the disposition to regard him as a chattel and a part of the personal estate of his master, which might be treated and disposed of very much in the same way as the rest of the estate. He became thus rated in inventories of estate, and was disposed of both by will and by deed along with the rest of the property." Ballagh, White Servitude in the Col. of Va., pp. 43, 44.
[48] Eddis, Letters from Am., p. 72.