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GA-1797 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to pardon a certain negro man
named Jerry, [p. 29]
Descriptors: Free Negroes; Free white males;
Mulattoes; Negroes; Pardons; Taxation; Wash-
ington County, GA; Jerry (negro man); Kitchen,
Benjamin
GA-1798
Contains:
• An Act to improve Augusta; and improve
the Public Roads in the Neighbourhood
thereof, [pp. 3-6]
• An Act to prohibit the further importation
of Slaves into this State, [pp. 7-8]
• An Act to impose a Tax, for the support of
the Government, for the Year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-eight, [pp. 17-19]
Descriptors: Africa and Africans; Augusta, GA
Elections; Free Negroes; Importation of slaves
Incorporation of cities and towns; Mulattoes
Negroes; Taxation
GA-1799.1
Contains:
• An Act to impose a Tax for the Support of
Government for the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety nine. [pp. 3-4, 8]
• An Act to admit Thomas Going, a free
person of colour, to the privileges of a
citizen of this State, so far as is therein
expressed, [pp. 118-119]
Descriptors: Citizen privileges; Free Negroes;
Free white males; Mulattoes; Negroes; Taxation;
Wilkes County, GA; Going, Thomas (free person
of color)
GA-1799.11
Contains:
• An Act to admit James Stewart and Judy
Eltoft, free persons of colour, to the
privileges of Citizens of this State, as far as
is therein expressed, [pp. 5-6]
• An Act to manumit certain persons therein
named, [pp. 23-24]
• An Act to raise a tax for the support of
government for the year one thousand eight
hundred, [pp. 33, 37-38, 45-49, 56]
64 State Slavery Statutes
• An Act supplementary to an act, entitled,
"An Act for ordering and governing slaves
within this State, (then province) passed the
tenth day of May one thousand seven
hundred and seventy, and for establishing a
jurisdiction for the trial of offences commit-
ted by such slaves, and other persons therein
mentioned, and to prevent the inveigling
and carrying away slaves from their masters,
owners or employers, and for repealing such
laws and clauses of laws, as militate against
the same." [pp. 74-75]
Descriptors: Burke County, GA; Charleston
County, GA; Citizen privileges; Free Negroes;
Free white males; Manumission; Mulattoes;
Negroes; Richmond County, GA; Taxation;
Trading with slaves; Betsy (slave); Eltoft, Judy
(free person of color); China (slave); Daniel
(slave); Hudnall, Ezekiel; Kestah (slave); King,
Alexander; King, James; Leviny (slave); Lewis
(slave); McLean, Andrew; McLendon, Harry
(slave); McLendon, Jacob; Moore, Joshua;
Nancy (slave); Rose (slave); Stewart, James (free
person of color); Syrus (slave); Waters, Bridget
(slave)
GA-1800
Contains:
• An Act to manumit a certain person of
colour by the name of Samuel, [pp. 6-7]
• An Act to alter and amend an act, to
empower the Inferior Courts of the several
Counties in this State, to order the laying out
the public roads, and to order the building
and keeping in repair the public bridges, [pp.
7-9]
• An Act to ascertain and establish, a certain
and uniform mode of calculating the prices
of specific articles, in contracts between
individual and individual in this State, [pp.
11-12]
• An Act for appropriating money for the
year one thousand eight hundred and one.
[pp. 12-15]
• An Act to raise a Tax for the support of
Government for its year one thousand eight
hundred and one. [pp. 25, 28-31]
Descriptors: Aged and infirm slaves; Appropria-
tions; Bridges and ferries; Contracts; Courts;
Free Negroes; Free white males; Highways and