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Jay's Treaty and the Slavery Interests of the United States (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Jay's Treaty and the Slavery Interests of the United StatesOf course the negroes thus carried away prior to the sign ing of the treaty of peace were irrecoverably lost to their masters. When the treaty was made, however, there were within the British camps a considerable number of negroes whom Laurens, by his suggested clause, hoped to save from deportation and ultimately restore to their owners. Sir Guy Carleton, successor to Clinton after the Yorktown surrender, when apprised of the treaty stipulation, assumed the ground that the negroes who had ¿ed from their_masters were no longer to be considered property of the American inhabit ants, and, besides, that in assenting to the Laurens clause of the treaty it could not have been the intention of the Brit ish Government to reduce themselves to the necessity of violating their faith to the negroes who had come into the British lines under the proclamations of his predecessors in command. A The three commissioners appointed by Wash ington to be present at all embarkations of British tr00ps for the purpose of detecting and reporting Violations of the treaty were sometimes ignored, sometimes deceived, and sometimes prevented from even witnessing the lading of the ships, so that the carrying away of the negroes went steadily on until the last of the British had taken their departure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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