[8] Ibid., II. 53.
[9] Cf. Ibid., II. 94; Laws of North Carolina (revision of 1819), I. 786.
[10] Virginia codified her whole slave legislation in 1792 (Va. Statutes at Large, New Ser., I. 122), and amended her laws in 1798 and 1806 (Ibid., III. 251).
[11] Dorsey, Laws of Maryland, 1796, I. 334.
[12] Laws of Delaware, 1797 (Newcastle ed.), p. 942, ch. 194 b.
[13] Dallas, Laws, II. 586.
[14] Paterson, Digest of the Laws of New Jersey (1800), pp. 307–13. In 1804 New Jersey passed an act gradually to abolish slavery. The legislation of New York at this period was confined to regulating the exportation of slave criminals (1790), and to passing an act gradually abolishing slavery (1799). In 1801 she codified all her acts.
[15] Acts and Laws of Connecticut (ed. 1784), pp. 368, 369, 388.
[16] Ibid., p. 412.
[17] Perpetual Laws of Massachusetts, 1780–89, pp. 235–6.