_History of the Negro Race in America_, Williams, Vol. 1, p. 119.
_History of Slavery in Virginia_, Ballagh, p. 34.
_History of the Negro Race in America_, Williams, Vol. 1, p. 133.
A letter from the celebrated Colonel William Byrd of "Westover" to Lord Egmont, under date of July 12, 1736, will serve to illustrate this fact. Colonel Byrd writes, "Your Lord's opinion concerning Rum and Negroes is certainly very just, and your excluding both of them from your colony of Georgia will be very happy....
I wish, my Lord, we could be blessed with the same prohibition. They import so many negroes here that I fear this colony will some time or other be confirmed by the name of New Guinea. I am sensible of the many bad consequences of multiplying the Ethiopians amongst us. They blow up the pride and ruin the Industry of our White People, who seeing a Rank of poor creatures below them, detest work for fear it should make them look like slaves. Then that poverty which will ever attend upon Idleness disposes them as much to pilfer as it does the Portuguese....
But these private mischiefs are nothing if compared to the publick danger. It were therefore worth the consideration of a British Parliament, my Lord, to put an end to this unchristian traffick of making merchandise of our Fellow Creatures. At least, the further importation of them into our Colony should be prohibited lest they prove as troublesome and dangerous elsewhere as they have been lately in Jamaica.... All these matters duly considered, I wonder the Legislature will Indulge a few ravenous traders to the danger of the Publick Safety." (From Unpublished Byrd Manuscripts at Lower Brandon, Va.)
_History of United States_, Bancroft, Vol. III, p. 410.
_Burke's Works_, Little, Brown & Co.'s. Ed., Vol. II, p. 135.
_Journal of House of Burgesses_, p. 131, and _Tucker's Blackstone_, appendix, note H. Vol. II, p. 351.
_History of United States_, Bancroft, Vol. IV, p. 445.
_Writings of Thomas Jefferson_, P. L. Ford, 1892, p. 28.
_Abraham Lincoln, A History_, Nicolay & Hay, Vol. I, p. 314.
_Suppression of the Slave Trade_, DuBois, p. 43.
_Writings of Thomas Jefferson_, Ford, 1892, Vol. I, p. 440.
_Suppression of the Slave Trade_, DuBois, p. 45.