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[Footnote 62: _Niles' Register_, XLIX, 72.]
[Footnote 63: J.R. Brackett, _The Negro in Maryland_, p. 206.]
[Footnote 64: D.R. Hundley, _Social Relations in our Southern States_ (New
York, 1860), pp. 350, 351.]
[Footnote 65: Atlanta _Intelligencer_, July 13, 1859, editorial commending
the purpose.]
[Footnote 66: W.H. Russell, _My Diary North and South_ (Boston, 1863), p.
167.]
CHAPTER XXI
FREE NEGROES
In the colonial period slaves were freed as a rule only when generous
masters rated them individually deserving of liberty or when the negroes
bought themselves. Typical of the time were the will of Thomas Stanford of
New Jersey in 1722 directing that upon the death of the testator's wife
his negro man should have his freedom if in the opinion of three neighbors
named he had behaved well,[1] and a deed signed by Robert Daniell of
South Carolina in 1759 granting freedom to his slave David Wilson in
consideration of his faithful service and of L600 currency in hand paid.[2]
So long as this condition prevailed, in which the ethics of slaveholding
were little questioned, the freed element remained extremely small.
[Footnote 1: _New Jersey Archives_, XXIII, 438.
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