Download or read book African Americans and Colonial Legislation in the Middle Colonies written by Oscar Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. During the first quarter of the seventeenth century Blacks began arriving in the middle colonies region. At first, regulation of these individuals posed no problem, but by the beginning of the eighteenth century it became increasingly obvious that specific laws governing Blacks needed to be legislated in detail. New York took the lead by having more slaves and legislation than New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This study is primarily an effort to analyze and compare legislation governing Blacks in the middle colonies.