175.     Ross Kimmel, "The Negro Before the Law in Seventeenth Century Maryland," 98

(M. A.Thesis Md. 1971). See, for example, the refusal of a grand jury to indict Simon
Overzee for the murder of his slave Antonio in the context of disciplining him for refusal
to work. Raphael Semnies, Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland 121 (1938). XLI
Maryland Archives 190, 191, 204-6. Ann Smith was indicted, tried and convicted of
murdering a negro boy, but was given a reprieve. XX Maryland Archives 461.

176.	XXIX Maryland Archives 160.

177. -	XXXIII Maryland Archives 111-3.

178.	1729 Session Laws, ch. IV, XXXVI Maryland Archives 454.

179.     A Supplementary Act to the Act relating to Servants and Slaves Sec. 1, XXXin Maryland
Archives 111-3.

180.     1737 Session Law ch. VU, XL Maryland Archives 92-4.

181.     Id. See also XL Maryland Archives 86-7.

182.     The petition of John Mills of Virginia for an allowance for his negro slave name Quod,
who was convicted of a felony in Prince George's County but died before execution, was
approved by the upper house in 1746, but rejected by the lower house. XLIV Maryland
Archives 251, 280. The law was amended the following session of the legislature. 1747
Session Laws, ch. XVI, XLTV Maryland Archives 647.

183.	XLVI Maryland Archives 618-20.

184.	L Maryland Archives 624-26, 629-30.

185.	1753 Session Law No. 25, L Maryland Archives 373-34.

186.	Laws of Maryland 1715, ch. 44, section 21.XX Maryland Archives 283-92.

187.	Kimmel, supra note 35, at 48.

188.	Laws of Maryland 1715, ch. 44, section 30, XXX Maryland Archives 283-92.

189.	See Semmes, supranote 35, at 80-118.

190.     Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of
American Negro Slavery 147-53 (1974); Kulikoff, supranote 21, at 189; Leslie Howard
Owens, stay This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South 53 (1976).
For example, Col. Smithson's will provided that the negroes on the Land called
Surveyor's Forest should with the land "and that they shall have two Acres of convenient

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