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159. See Land, supra note 16, at 16-9. Ronald L. Lewis, Coal. Iron and Slaves: Industrial
Slavery in Maryland and Virginia 1715-1865 (1979).
160. Main, Tobacco Colony, supra note 12 at 106.
161. Allan Kulikoff, "The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland," in Land,
Can and Papenfuse, supra note 5 at 171, 191.
162. Colonial laws were generally applicable only until the following session of the
legislature, or at most for a three year period unless specially codified as permanent laws.
163. An Act Relating to Servants and Slaves, XXX Maryland Archives 283-92.
164. An Act to prevent the Tumultuous Meetings, and other Irregularities of Negroes and other
Slaves, XXXIV MARYLAND ARCHIVES 269-71.
165. An Act to encourage the takers up of run-away Slaves, that shall be taken up by any
Person and brought in from the Back Woods, XXXVI Maryland Archives 583.
166. An Additional supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act relating to Servants and
Slaves, 1748 Session Laws no. 19, XLVI Maryland Archives 149-51.
167. 1753 Session Laws, no. 8, L Maryland Archives 284-85.
168. Kuhikoff, supra note 21, at 190.
169. 1 Maryland Archives 233.
170. Laws of Maryland 1715 ch. 44, section 32.
171. XIX Maryland Archives 167. text at 39 Maryland Archives 48-49.
172. XXXIV Maryland Archives 111-13.
173. See Land, supra note 16, at 166-7. Governor Ogle attempted to use the Prince George's
plot as a lever to secure funds from the colonists for arms. XL Maryland Archives 494.
The Legislature responded that "Whatever Danger might have been apprehended from
some negroes in Prince George's County the punishment they Received we apprehend
will Deter others from the like practice and we hope has prevented any ill consequencys
that might have Ensued." XL Maryland Archives 523.
174. There are a half dozen cases between 1738 and 1768 involving murder or attempted
murder of masters or overseers by slaves collected in Helen Catterall, Judicial Cases
Concerning Slavery. IV, 34-46.
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