. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. J •To be sold, for want of employment, an exceeding likely Hegro Girl, aged sixteen1. From the same, Dec. 14^h, 21st, 28th, Neg_rp Child, soon expected, of a good breed, may be owned by any person inclined to take it,and Money with it. Hist, of Slav, in Mass. 178. v. MDr. Belknap wrote and printed, in the year 1795, a notice ofthis trial, which we copy. In 1781, at the Court in Worcester bounty, an indictment wa?found against a white an for assaulting, heating, and imprisoninga blafek. He was tried at the Supreme Judicial court in defen
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. J •To be sold, for want of employment, an exceeding likely Hegro Girl, aged sixteen1. From the same, Dec. 14^h, 21st, 28th, Neg_rp Child, soon expected, of a good breed, may be owned by any person inclined to take it,and Money with it. Hist, of Slav, in Mass. 178. v. MDr. Belknap wrote and printed, in the year 1795, a notice ofthis trial, which we copy. In 1781, at the Court in Worcester bounty, an indictment wa?found against a white an for assaulting, heating, and imprisoninga blafek. He was tried at the Supreme Judicial court in defence was, that the black was his slave, and that the heating,etc., was the necessary restraint and correction of the was answered by citing the aforesaid clause in the declarationof rights. The judges and ,iury ^ere of the qnjpikon that he had noright to imprison or beat the negro. He was found guilty and fined40 shillings. This decision was ^portal wound to slavery in Mas-sachusetts i . II. H. S. Coll. , I, IV, 203. Hist, o° Slavery in Mass., 214.
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