a was stopped and illegally imported
Negroes were freed.[40]

Compared with the trade to Virginia and the Carolinas, the slave-trade
to Maryland was small, and seems at no time to have reached proportions
which alarmed the inhabitants. It was regulated to the economic demand
by a slowly increasing tariff, and finally, after 1769, had nearly
ceased of its own accord before the restrictive legislation of
Revolutionary times.[41] Probably the proximity of Maryland to Virginia
made an independent slave-trade less necessary to her.

9. ~General Character of these Restrictions.~ We find in the planting
colonies all degrees of advocacy of the trade, from the passiveness of
Maryland to the clamor of Georgia. Opposition to the trade did not
appear in Georgia, was based almost solely on political fear of
insurrection in Carolina, and sprang largely from the same motive in
Virginia, mingled with some moral repugnance. As a whole, it may be said
that whatever opposition to the slave-trade there was in the planting
colonies was based principally on the political fear of insurrection.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Hoare, _Memoirs of Granville Sharp_ (1820), p. 157. For
the act of prohibition, see W.B. Stevens, _History of Georgia_
(1847), I. 311.

[2] [B. Martyn, _Account of the Progress of Georgia_ (1741),
pp. 9-10.]

[3] Cf. Stevens, _History of Georgia_, I. 290 ff.

[4] Stephens, _Account of the Causes_, etc., p. 8. Cf. also
_Journal of Trustees_, II. 210; cited by Stevens, _History of
Georgia_, I. 306.

[5] McCall, _History of Georgia_ (1811), I. 206-7.

[6] _Ibid._

[7] _Pub. Rec. Office, Board of Trade_, Vol. X.; cited by C.C.
Jones, _History of Georgia_ (1883), I. 422-5.

[8] The following is a summary of the legislation of the
colony of South Carolina; details will be found in Appendix
A:--

1698, Act to encourage the immigration of white servants.
1703, Duty Act: 10_s._ on Africans, 20_s._ on other Negroes.
1714, " " additional duty.
1714, " " L2.
1714-15, Duty Act: additional duty.
1716, " " L3 on Africans, L30 on colonial Negroes.
1717, " " L40 in addition to existing duties.
1719, " " L10 on Africans, L30 on colonial Negroes.
The Act of 1717, etc., was repealed.
1721, " " L10 on Africans, L50 on colonial Negroes.