. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. laves were permitted 3. to search vessels for their slaves. In 1770 a further act regula- ting manumission was passed. Pour years later the importation of slaves, except from Africa,was forbidden, and in 1784 this exception was removed. In 1788 an act was passed, allowing negroes to enlist and proviving that they should be free upon their passing muster- 7. before Colonel Greene. The next year an act prohibited the saleo negroes from the state agai stAwill. In 1881 a remarkable requestcame before the Assembly of Rhode; Island. Quaco, a negro man, whoha
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. laves were permitted 3. to search vessels for their slaves. In 1770 a further act regula- ting manumission was passed. Pour years later the importation of slaves, except from Africa,was forbidden, and in 1784 this exception was removed. In 1788 an act was passed, allowing negroes to enlist and proviving that they should be free upon their passing muster- 7. before Colonel Greene. The next year an act prohibited the saleo negroes from the state agai stAwill. In 1881 a remarkable requestcame before the Assembly of Rhode; Island. Quaco, a negro man, whohad fled fro ! th British in Newport represented o the Assembly that since that time he had thought himself free, but that the adminis-trator of his masters estate har threatened es*a£e hsd to sell him v °l and he requestedphe Assembly to manumit him. The Assembly took 1. R. I. Col. Rec. 17, 415. 2. Ibid. V, 472. 3. Ibid. VI, 64. 4. Ibid, fttl, 24. 5. Ibid. VII, 241. 6. Ibid. X, 8. 7. Ibid. VIII, 358. 8. Ibid. HI, 618. 9. Ibid. ^IX, the request under advisement found that the negro ha< teen of valueto the colonial amy, and. the next year manumitted him. In 1783the ever active Quakers \resente a ret it ion to the assembly prayingfor the abolition of slavery. The Assembly appoint ed a tee*to consider the petition and to report proper measures for the Assemb-ly to adopt. The committee prepared an act authorizing the manumis-sion of slaves. The act was referred to the third day of the nextsession and in that state it probably still reats. An act author-izing the manumission of negroes, mulattoes, and others, and for thegradual abolition of slavery was passed, in 1764. This act provid-ed that no child born within the state after March 1*1784 should bea Plave. The children of slave mothers were to be maintained bythe town in which the mother resided, bait the children might be boundout as apprentices when they were between the ages of one and twer^yjtr-one if males,
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