The expected monopoly of the tobacco and indigo cultivation in the South would be promoted by excluding Negroes from the Northwest Territory and thus preventing its cultivation there.

Dr.Cutler's influence aided by Mr.Grayson of Virginia was of much assistance.

The philanthropic idea was not so prominent as men have thought .-- Dunn, _Indiana_, p.

212.] [Footnote 8: _Ibid_., p.

254.] [Footnote 9: _Code Noir_.] [Footnote 10: Speaking of these settlements in 1750, M.Viner, a Jesuit Missionary to the Indians, said: "We have here Whites, Negroes, and Indians, to say nothing of cross-breeds--There are five French villages and three villages of the natives within a space of twenty-one leagues--In the five French villages there are perhaps eleven hundred whites, three hundred blacks, and some sixty red slaves or savages." Unlike the condition of the slaves in Lower Louisiana where the rigid enforcement of the Slave Code made their lives almost intolerable, the slaves of the Northwest Territory were for many reasons much more fortunate.