Try looking at Almon W. Lauber, INDIAN SLAVERY IN COLONIAL TIMES
WITHIN THE PRESENT LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES (1913).


Milton M. Klein                       |   phone: (423) 974-2806
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Just received this e-mail from a friend of mine. I have nothing on this topic.
>Can anyone help?  Thanks Les Buell
>
>Les
>
>Recently while looking at my copy of Ecclesiastical Records of the State of
>New York, Vol. III, pg. 1673, I came across an interesting piece of
>Legislation from 1706 entitled, "An Act to Encourage the Baptizing of Negro,
>Indian and Mulatto Slaves".
>The purpose of the legislation was to disspell the idea that baptism in any
>way affected the slave's legal status - it did not.  So good burghers baptize
>them all, they will still be slaves!
>
>Do you have any figures on the number of Native Americans held in slavery in
>colonial New York?
>
>Edward J.
>