[Twinkie]

Of course, as we all know, no northerner ever owned any
slave, no yankee ever traded in slaves, at least that's
the way history will be FURTHER rewritten within a few
years.

[FR_addict]

We were living in New Jersey a few years ago and rented the 200 year old rectory from a Church. The graveyard was right next to our house. The old tombstones went back quite a few centuries. One of the Church members said that the small markers with the name only on them were the markers for the slaves of the families buried in the graveyard. I wasn't a member of the Church so I never saw the records, but I'm sure they were plenty of slaves buried in that old graveyard.

[nolu chan]

[Twinkie] Of course, as we all know, no northerner ever owned any slave, no yankee ever traded in slaves, at least that's the way history will be FURTHER rewritten within a few years.

LINK

The Articles of Confederation
of the United Colonies of New England

(May 19, 1643)

AMERICA'S ORIGINAL FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

Extracts

4. It is by these Confederates agreed that... and that according to their different charge of each Jurisdiction and Plantation the whole advantage of the war (if it please God so to bless their endeavors) whether it be in lands, goods, or persons, shall be proportionately divided among the said Confederates.

8. ...It is also agreed that if any servant run away from his master into any other of these confederated Jurisdictions, that in such case, upon the ceritficate of one magistrate in the Jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled, or upon other due proof; the said servant shall be delivered, either to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate or proof.