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[1] This dissertation is the result of the researches of Mr. A. G.
Lindsay under Dr. C. G. Woodson at Howard University during the
academic year 1919-1920 and was submitted to the Committee on Graduate
Studies in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts. Dr. C. G.
Woodson was the chairman of this committee.

The following sources were used in the preparation of this manuscript:
_American State Papers, Foreign Relations_; _American State Papers,
Confidential Documents_; _American State Papers_, Wait's Edition;
_Annals of Congress_; _Diary of John Quincy Adams_, in his _Memoirs_;
_Diplomatic Correspondence_; Force, _American Archives_; _Journals of
Congress_; _Journals of Continental Congress_; McDonald's _Source Book
of American History_; _Niles Register_; _Treaties and Conventions_,
Edition 1889; _United States Statutes at Large_.

The following works were also consulted: John Adams, _Works_; Van
Tyne, _The American Revolution_; _American Historical Association
Reports_; Babcock, _Rise of American Nationality_; Benton, _Naval
History of England_; Channing, _History of the United States_; Ford,
_Washington's Writings_; Ford, _Jefferson's Writings_; Fiske,
_Critical Period_; Gibb, _Administrations of Washington and Adams_;
_The Journal of Negro History_; Morse, _John Adams_; _Naval Chronicle
of England_; Ramsay, _History of South Carolina_, Edition, 1809;
Sparks, _Washington_; Moore, _International Arbitration_; Moore,
_Digest of International Law_; Wharton, _Digest of International Law_,
Edition, 1887; Halleck, _Elements of Law_; Wheaton, _Elements of Law_,
Edition, by Dana.

[2] Ramsay, _History of South Carolina_, Edition, 1809, Vol. I, pp.
474-475.

[3] _American Historical Association_, Vol. I, p. 273. F. A. Ogg,
_American State Papers_, Vol. IV, p. 304.

[4] Moore, _International Arbitrations_, p. 350.

[5] Van Tyne, _American Revolution_, p. 61; Force, _American
Archives_, 4th Series, III, 1385.

[6] Proclamation--"Whereas the enemy have adopted a practice of
enrolling Negroes among their troops, I do hereby give Notice that all
Negroes taken in Arms or upon any military Duty shall be purchased for
the public service at a stated price; the money to be paid to the
captors. But I do most strictly forbid any Person to sell or claim
right over any Negroes the property of a Rebel who may take refuge
with any part of this Army. And I do promise to every Negro who shall
desert the Rebel Standard full Secu