1769 (circa). Connecticut: Importation Prohibited (?).
Title and text not found. "Whereas, the increase of slaves is injurious to the poor, and inconvenient, therefore," etc. Fowler, Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut, in Local Law, etc., p. 125.
1770. Rhode Island: Bill to Prohibit Importation.
Bill to prohibit importation of slaves fails. Arnold, History of Rhode Island (1859), II. 304, 321, 337.
1771, April 12. Massachusetts: Bill to Prevent Importation.
Bill passes both houses and fails of Governor Hutchinson's assent. House Journal, pp. 211, 215, 219, 228, 234, 236, 240, 242–3.
1771. Maryland: Additional £5 Duty Act.
"An Act for imposing a further additional duty of five pounds current money per poll on all negroes imported into this province." For seven years. Laws of Maryland since 1763: 1771, ch. vii.; cf. 1773, sess. Nov.-Dec., ch. xiv.
1772, April 1. Virginia: Address to the King.
" ... The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear will endanger the very existence of your majesty's American dominions....