Note 49 — NEGRO SERVITUDE IN THE UNITED STATES[A]
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Ibid., pp. 23, 24; Hotten, List of Immigrants to Am., pp. 202, etc.
The "Lists of the Living and Dead in Virginia, Feb. 16th, 1623," shows that there were twenty or more Negroes in the Colony; these Negroes are referred to as servants not slaves. Col. Records of Va., p. 37, etc.