Restrictions in North Carolina in the United States

Restrictions in North Carolina (the Planting Colonies)

In the book “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870” (1), W. E. B. Du Bois explained the following: In early times there were few slaves in North Carolina;22 this fact, together with the troubled and turbulent state of affairs during the early colonial period, did not necessitate the adoption of any settled policy toward slavery or the slave-trade. Later the slave-trade to the colony increased; but there is no evidence of any effort to restrict or in any way regulate it before 1786, when it was declared that “the importation of slaves into this State is productive of evil consequences and highly impolitic,”23 and a prohibitive duty was laid on them.

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Notes and References

1. W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870” (1893), Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Bombay and Calcuta.

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Further Reading

• The African Slave Trade: The Secret Purpose of the Insurgents to Revive it. No Treaty Stipulations against the Slave Trade to be entered into with the European Powers, etc. Philadelphia, 1863.
• James H. Hammond. Letters on Southern Slavery: addressed to Thomas Clarkson. [Charleston, (?)].
• Charles Deane. Charles Deane. Letters and Documents relating to Slavery in Massachusetts. (In Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 5th Series, III. 373.)
• Frederick Law Olmsted . The Cotton Kingdom, etc. 2 vols. New York, 1861.
• John Elliot Cairnes. The Slave Power: its Character, Career, and Probable Designs. London, 1862.
• Hugh M’Call. The History of Georgia, containing Brief Sketches of the most Remarkable Events, up to the Present Day. 2 vols. Savannah, 1811–16.
• [Friends.] An Exposition of the African Slave Trade, from the year 1840, to 1850, inclusive. Prepared from official documents. Philadelphia, 1857.
• L.W. Spratt. A Protest from South Carolina against a Decision of the Southern Congress: Slave Trade in the Southern Congress. (In Littell’s Living Age, Third Series, LXVIII. 801.)