Naturally, the latter motive worked itself out with much
less legislation than the former; for this reason, and because they held
a smaller number of slaves, most of these colonies have fewer actual
statutes than the Southern colonies. In Pennsylvania alone did this
general economic revolt against the trade acquire a distinct moral
tinge. Although even here the institution was naturally doomed, yet the
clear moral insight of the Quakers checked the trade much earlier than
would otherwise have happened. We may say, then, that the farming
colonies checked the slave-trade primarily from economic motives.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Smith, _Generall Historie of Virginia_ (1626 and 1632), p. 126.
[2] Cf. Southey, _History of Brazil_.
[3] De Laet, in O'Callaghan, _Voyages of the Slavers_, etc., p. viii.
[4] See, e.g., Sainsbury, _Cal. State Papers; Col. Ser.,
America and W. Indies, 1574-1660_, p. 279.
[5] Cf. below, pp. 27, 32, notes; also _Freedoms_, XXX., in
O'Callaghan, _Laws of New Netherland, 1638-74_ (ed. 1868), p.
10; Brodhead, _History of New York_, I. 312.
[6] The following is a summary of the legislation of the
colony of New York; details will be found in Appendix A:--
1709, Duty Act: L3 on Negroes not direct from Africa
(Continued by the Acts of 1710, 1711).
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