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Gibson/Papenfuse Race and the Law in Maryland Image No: 191 Enlarge and print image (58K) << PREVIOUS NEXT >> |
110. II Maryland Archives 272. Lord Baltimore stated in 1678 that the 1671 law had been enacted to encourage the baptism of slaves. Md. Arch. Proceedings of the Council 1661-1675. 267. 111. LXVI Maryland Archives 291. See Kimmel. supra note 1. at 61; and Kimmel, "Free Blacks in Seventeenth Century Maryland," LXXI Md. Hist. Mae. 19, 20-1 (1976). 112. LXIX Maryland Archives 122. See Whittington P. Johnson, "The Origin and Source of African Slavery in Seventeenth Century Maryland," LXXHI Md. Hist. Mag. 236, 240 . (1978). 113. LXV Maryland Archives 19. See Johnson, supra note 104, at 240; Kimmel, supra note 1, at 61. 114. Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard, "Immigration and Opportunity: The Freedman in Early Colonial Maryland," in Tate and Ammerman, supra note 63 at 206, 238. 115. Id 116. VII Maryland Archives 76. 117. William and Mary Butler v. Boarman, 1 Har. and McH. 371 (1770). Petitioners claimed freedom as descendants of Irish Nell. The Court noted that the 1681 law which repealed the 1664 statute "was passed in the month of August, immediately after the marriage [of Nell and a negro slave], and his Lordship interested himself in procuring repeal with a view to this particular case." 118. VII Maryland Archives 177. 119. VII Maryland Archives 203-5. And for as much as diverse freebom English or White women sometimes by the Instigation Procurement or Connivance of their Masters Mistress or dames, & always to the Satisfaction of their Lascivious & Lustful desires, & to the disgrace not only of the English but also of many other Christian Nations, do Intermarry with Negroes & Slaves by which means diverse Inconveniences Controversies & suits may arise Touching the Issue or Children of such freebom women aforesaid, for the prevention whereof for the future, Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any Mr Mrs or dame having any freeborn English or white woman Servant as aforesaid in their possession or property, shall by any instigation procurement knowledge permission or Contrivance whatsoever, suffer any such possession & wherein they have property as aforesaid to Intermarry or Contract in Matrimony with any Slave from and after the Last day of this present Sessions of Assembly, That then the said Mr Mrs or dame of any such freebom women as aforesaid, so married as aforesaid, shall forfeit & Lose all their Claim & Title to the service & servitude of any such freebom woman & also the said woman Servant so married shall be & is by this present Act absolutely discharged manumitted & made free 189 |