Note [620 — Chapter VII
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[620] The colonial officials persistently denied that they stirred up the tribes to make war upon each other so as to obtain captives for slaves. Such letters and statements of denial are found in North Carolina Colonial Records, ii, p. 252. (A letter of April 5, 1716); Journal of the Board of Trade, Public Record Office, Co. 391, 25 R., xvii, p. 175 (Testimony rendered July 16. 1715). The government officials claimed that the Indian outbreaks against the English were caused, not by any action of the officials in stirring them up to obtain slaves, but rather by the abuses practiced upon them by the traders and by the inability of the colonial government to control the traders. Journal of the Board of Trade, Public Record Office, Co. 391, 25 R., xvii, pp. 168, 169, 176, 191.