Note 682 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)

Compare sec. 91 of the "Body of Liberties," upon which the apologists have mainly rested their case, with the later version of the provision: Whitmore, Col. Laws of Mass. (1660-72), 53, 125; ibid. (1672-86), 10; and read Moore's convincing argument as to the significance of the altered wording: Notes on the Hist. of Slavery in Mass., 10-18. For Connecticut see Fowler, "The Historical Status of the Negro," in Dawson's Hist. Mag., 3d series, III, 12-18, 81-85, 148-53, 260-66; Steiner, "Hist. of Slavery in Conn.," J. H. U. S., XI, 371-452; and Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, I, 267 ff.