" Heavy
penalties are laid for bringing in Negroes in order to free them.
_Colonial Records_, VII. 251-3.
[1784, February: "It is voted and resolved, that the whole of the clause
contained in an act of this Assembly, passed at June session,
A.D. 1774, permitting slaves brought from the coast of Africa
into the West Indies, on board any vessel belonging to this (then
colony, now) state, and who could not be disposed of in the West Indies,
&c., be, and the same is, hereby repealed." _Colonial Records_, X. 8.]
~1774, October. Connecticut: Importation Prohibited.~
"An Act for prohibiting the Importation of Indian, Negro or Molatto
Slaves."
" ... no indian, negro or molatto Slave shall at any time hereafter be
brought or imported into this Colony, by sea or land, from any place or
places whatsoever, to be disposed of, left or sold within this Colony."
This was re-enacted in the revision of 1784, and slaves born after 1784
were ordered to be emancipated at the age of twenty-five. _Colonial
Records_, XIV. 329; _Acts and Laws of Connecticut_ (ed. 1784), pp.
233-4.
~1774. New Jersey: Proposed Prohibitive Duty.~
"A Bill for laying a Duty on Indian, Negroe and Molatto Slaves, imported
into this Colony." Passed the Assembly, and was rejected by the Council
as "plainly" intending "an intire Prohibition," etc. _N.J. Archives_,
1st Series, VI.
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