" _Perpetual Laws of Massachusetts,
1780-89_ (ed. 1789), p. 235.
~1788, March 29. Pennsylvania: Slave-Trade Prohibited.~
"An Act to explain and amend an act, entituled, 'An Act for the gradual
abolition of slavery.'"
Sec. 2. Slaves brought in by persons intending to settle shall be free.
Sec. 3. " ... no negro or mulatto slave, or servant for term of years,"
except servants of congressmen, consuls, etc., "shall be removed out of
this state, with the design and intention that the place of abode or
residence of such slave or servant shall be thereby altered or changed,
or with the design and intention that such slave or servant, if a
female, and pregnant, shall be detained and kept out of this state till
her delivery of the child of which she is or shall be pregnant, or with
the design and intention that such slave or servant shall be brought
again into this state, after the expiration of six months from the time
of such slave or servant having been first brought into this state,
without his or her consent, if of full age, testified upon a private
examination, before two Justices of the peace of the city or county in
which he or she shall reside, or, being under the age of twenty-one
years, without his or her consent, testified in manner aforesaid, and
also without the consent of his or her parents," etc. Penalty for every
such offence, L75.
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