. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. From the Marquis do Lafayette. Cadiz, 5 February, , my dear General, that you are going to enjoy Rome ease andquiet, permit me to propose a plan to you, which might become great-ly beneficial to the Mack part of mankind. Let us unite inpurchasing a small estate, where we may try the experiment to freethe negroes, and use them only as tenants. Such an example a« ••oursmight render it a general practice; and if we succeed in America,I will cheerfully devote a part of my tine to render the method fash-ionable in the West Indies. If it be a wild sc
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. From the Marquis do Lafayette. Cadiz, 5 February, , my dear General, that you are going to enjoy Rome ease andquiet, permit me to propose a plan to you, which might become great-ly beneficial to the Mack part of mankind. Let us unite inpurchasing a small estate, where we may try the experiment to freethe negroes, and use them only as tenants. Such an example a« ••oursmight render it a general practice; and if we succeed in America,I will cheerfully devote a part of my tine to render the method fash-ionable in the West Indies. If it be a wild scheme, I had ratherbe mad this way, than to be thought wise in the other task. Corres. of Rev., Letters to Washington, III, The last Monday in February, 1784. An Act authorizing the manumission of negroes, mulattoes, , and for the gradual abolition of slavery. Whereas, all men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pur-suit of happiness, ad the holding mankind in a state of slavery,as private property, which has gradually obtained by unrestrainedcustom and the permission of the laws, is repugnant to this princi-ple, and subversive of the happiness of mankind, the great end ofjail civil government, - Be it therefore enacted by this General Assembly, and by theauthority thereof it is enacted, that no person or persons, whethernegroes, mulattoes, or others, who shall be born within the limitsof this state, on or after the first day of March, A. ; . 1784, shallbe deemed or considered as servants for life or slaves; and that allservitude for life, or slavery of children, to be born as aforesaid,in consequence of the condition of their mothers, be, and the sameis, thereby taken away, extinguished, and.
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