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1 Report of Special Committee on So Much of Gov. Adams' Message as Relates to the Slave Trade 1 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/rscsmgva0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORPT OF SPECIAL COLIITTEE ON SO MUCH OF GOV. ADAMS' MESSAGE AS RELATES TO THE SLAVE TRADE. The Special Committe to whom was referred so much of the first Mes- sage of Governor Adams, .comunieated to the General Assembly at their last session, as relates to the slave trade, haxe considered the subject with the care and attention which its importance demanded, and now ask leave to submit the following Report: There are two facts in the condition of nearly all of the slavohohling States of this Confederacy, which can scarcely escape the nutice of even the most cursot'y observer. These are, first, that their productive industry is almost exclusively agricultural; aid, second, that the manual labor oen- ployed in their agriculture, is, with very little exception, that of negro slaves. It is, to say the least, not a rash or unreasonable conclu-ion, that facts so general and uniform, are the results of natural causes existing in the soil and climate, and, perhaps, other inherent poeuliarities of the coun- try, less obvious to the senses. When the Englih beman to establish settlements on the North American Continent, most of the principal mari- time nations of Europe had been, for many years, actively antd extensively carrying on the trade in negro slaves, purchased on the western coast of Africa, and transported to the European Colonies in the West India Islands, and on the continent of South America. The first importations into Vir- ginia are said to have taken place in 1620, about half a century before the settlement of South Carolina, and slaves must have been brouglht into this colony very soon after its organization, for we find among the Legislative Acts, passed in 1683, only one year later than the earliest Acts of which any record remains, An Act inhibiting the trading with servants or slaves, and 1An Act to prevent runaways. From that time the importa- tion of negroes from Africa was continued with little or no interruption, until the year 1808, when it was prohibited by an Act of Congress. Dur- ing the same period the ingress and settlement of emigrants from Europe were perfectly free and unrestricted, and so they have continued to be ever since the importation of slaves was forbidden by law, and entirely arrested. Yet, notwithstanding that, during the whole period of forty years which in.

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