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BAYARD, THOMAS F.

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BAYARD, THOMAS F.
(1828 - 1898) Secretary of State in Grover Cleveland's administration and first ambassador to Great Britain. A.L.S. ""T. F. Bayard"" 2pp. 4to., Wilmington, Del., Aug. 2, 1877, concerning slavery in Delaware, in part: ""àIn 1850 there were about 2800 slaves held in this state but there was no law providing for the final extinction of the system. There was aàlaw since 1828 against selling slaves to go out of the state. Nor could they be brought into the state, at all, excepting by persons moving into the state to reside and who had to procure an order from the resident judge of the Superior Court permitting their introduction. Emancipation was passed and facilitated and by 1860 the number of slaves had decreased to about 2200. Negro slavery thus became in Delaware an individual and not a class interestàa large proportion of free negroes, the slave laws and negro disabilities were continued until the adoption of the late amendments to the Federal Constitution. With the narrow territorial limits of the state, with the 'free' states of Penna. and New Jersey on its northern and eastern borders. The facilities for escape were abundant and no one needed to remain in involuntary servitude in Delaware for the past thirty yearsàand no one in fact didà"". Very good.