Note [657 — Chapter VII
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[657] Acts and Resolves, i, p. 698. July 15, 1715, Mr. Bannister of Virginia appeared before the Board of Trade and declared that the selling in New England of Indian slaves taken in war had caused so much injury by arousing the hostility of the neighboring natives, that the legislature of Massachusetts had been obliged to pass a law prohibiting the buying or selling of any Indians as slaves. Journal of the Board of Trade, Public Record Office, Co. 391, p. 169.