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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction ............................................................... i - iv
Chapter 1.
Race and the Law in Colonial Maryland
I. Mathias De Sousa: The Perils of History ........................................ 1
A. Indentured Servant ................................................... 2
B. Ship's Captain ....................................................... 3
C. Participant in Provincial Government ..................................... 4
D. Freeman to Servant in Bankruptcy ........................................ 5
II. The Early Establishment of Slavery ............................................. 5
A. Slavery in the First Decades of the Colony ................................. 6
B. How Slavery Arose .................................................. 10
C. Slavery in a Society of Indentured Servants ............................... 15
III. Racial Legislation in the Seventeenth Century ................................... 17
IV. The Free Black in Seventeenth Century Maryland ................................ 24
V. Blacks in Eighteenth Century Colonial Maryland ................................ 25
A. The Rise of Slavery .................................................. 25
B. Changes in Living Conditions of Slaves .................................. 27
C. Statutory Law ...................................................... 28
1. Runaway Legislation ............................................ 28
2. Laws to Forestall Slave Rebellions ................................. 30
3. Criminal Law for Slaves ......................................... 30
4. Laws on Master-Slave Relationship ............................... 31
D. Case Law .......................................................... 33
E. The Free Negro ...................................................... 35
Chapter Two
Race and the Law in Antebellum Maryland
I. Blacks in the State of Maryland in the Eighteenth Century .......................... 37
A. Sources of Abolitionist Sentiment ....................................... 37
B. The Ban on Importation of Slaves and the Struggle Over Abolition ............. 39
C. Judicial Responses to Anti-Slavery Sentiment.............................. 42
D. Free Blacks in the New State ........................................... 43
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