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 University of Tennessee, Knoxville | email: [log in to unmask] 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. >