. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. A negro might be tried and might be ordered sold by legal process. It appears that negroes sometimes received wages. In Hew York con- 3. tracts with them were illegal. 1. Rhode Island. Col. Rec. V, 72. 2. Doc. rel. to Col. Hist, of M. Y., IV, 875, 3. Hist, of Slav, in Mass., CHAPTER the Manumission of reference?- have been made tD the manumission of was natural that occasions should arise that would cause a masterto desire to free a slave. The desire might from gratitudefor some unusual favor ^one by
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. A negro might be tried and might be ordered sold by legal process. It appears that negroes sometimes received wages. In Hew York con- 3. tracts with them were illegal. 1. Rhode Island. Col. Rec. V, 72. 2. Doc. rel. to Col. Hist, of M. Y., IV, 875, 3. Hist, of Slav, in Mass., CHAPTER the Manumission of reference?- have been made tD the manumission of was natural that occasions should arise that would cause a masterto desire to free a slave. The desire might from gratitudefor some unusual favor ^one by the slave, or from the baser motiveof wishing to be rid of an undesirable slave. We are now to inves-tigate the law? and regulations an<i othe^ points of interest con-cerning the manumission of negro slaves. New York. In 164r Ne^r Netherland sent a remonstrance tothe States Generalin which complaint was made that he Governor had allowed the chil-dren of manumitted negroes to be held as slaves, contrary to allpublic law. The West India company replied that the negroes hadbean freed on condition that their children might be put to serviceby the company. New York had a law allowing slaves to be manumit-ted by will of their masters, at least as early as 1719. In thatyear Governor Hunter asked that a new law gover
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