For those with a deep interest in the subject, may I recommend St.
George Tucker, "On the State of Slavery in Virginia," Appendix Note H"
part of "Appendix to Volume First, Part Second of the edition of
/Blackstone's Commentaries/ by St. George Tucker," /Blackstone's
Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of
the Federal Government of the United States; and of the Commonwealth of
Virginia/, (1803; reprint, Union, N.J.: The Lawbook Exchange, 1996), II:
31-85 [2nd pagination following p.435]

St. George Tucker was a professor of law at William and Mary and a judge
of the General Court of Virginia. I have found this set (5 volumes) to
be of inestimable value in understanding colonial law.

Barbara Vines Little, CG
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Richard Dixon wrote:
> The Revised Code of 1819 contains the following footnote to Section 111:
>
>  _Slaves (negroes) were first brought into Virginia , by a Dutch ship about the year 1619-20; Bev. Hist. Virg. p. 51; Burk's Hist. Virg. vol 1, p.211; Smith's Hist Virg. p.126. The importation of slaves was thenceforth permitted till the revolution: the Colonial Assembly passed several laws to prohibit the importation, but the crown constantly withheld its assent. See preamble to Const. Virginia. c. 4. As to the persons who might be imported into the colony as slaves, see the note on the title, ante. c. 25._
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