BookRix

Negro Slavery Was Introduced Into All The English Colonies Of North
America As A Custom, And Not Under Any Warrant Of Law. The Enslavement
Of The Negro Race Was Simply A Matter Against Which No White Person
Chose To Enter A Protest, Or Make Resistance, While The Negroes
Themselves Were Powerless To Resist Or Even Protest. In due Course Of
Time Laws Were Passed By The Colonial Assemblies To Protect Property In
Negroes, While The Home Government, To The Very Last, Actively Protected
And Encouraged The Slave Trade To The Colonies. Negro Slavery In all
The Colonies Had Thus Passed From Custom To Law Before The American
Revolution Broke Out; And The Course Of The Revolution Itself Had Little
Or No Effect On The System.