. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. d adopted by the people generally with that understanding; rut that this was the effect of their adoption en not be doubted, from the fact that in 1775 there were 657 slaves re- turned as living in the state, and by the census of 1790, only sixyears after the adoption of the state constitution, the number ofslaves wa- returned a;; 158; while by the census of 1800 only 8 werereturned, and by that of 1810, none. He refers to the additionalfacts, as still higher proflf that the bill of rights abolished sla-very , thi t previous to and. up to the adoption
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. d adopted by the people generally with that understanding; rut that this was the effect of their adoption en not be doubted, from the fact that in 1775 there were 657 slaves re- turned as living in the state, and by the census of 1790, only sixyears after the adoption of the state constitution, the number ofslaves wa- returned a;; 158; while by the census of 1800 only 8 werereturned, and by that of 1810, none. He refers to the additionalfacts, as still higher proflf that the bill of rights abolished sla-very , thi t previous to and. up to the adoption of the constitutionslaves had been for many years rated and taxed to their ownersas horses, oxen and other kinds o^ property were taxed, and. thatwhen a new proportion was made in 1788 the practice of taxing slaves was dropped. When this act became a law, he says, slave?: ceased to be known and held as property in New Hampshire. No after leg- islation recognized the existence of slavery. The institution wasdead. Granite Monthly, VI, APPENDIX TO CHAPTER John Sharpes Proposals, is about ten years since the Venerable Society for the Pro-pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, out of their tender con-cern for the soul^ybf the Indians and negros who are Slaves at New-York appointed M Ellas Neau to instruct them in the knowledge ofJesus Christ and Salvation thro him. The first hindrance to the truly pious work of Christianizingthese poor Barbarians is an unwillingness in their masters thatthey should be bo.^^ ^ The grounds of their prejudice against itare a vile conceit that the negroes have no immortal souls but area sort of speaking brutes destined by God to a state of ~¥r ^ Another formerly was that Christianity would make them |free, but this exception has been taken away by an act of assemblyratified by her Majesty by which its ordained that they remainstill the property of their masters, notwithstanding Baptism. )h^r ^c^-*-* One thing I shall
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