From the Daily Gazette, Wilmington, Delaware Nov 2, 1872

I had heard about this law, where a convicted free person of color could be sold into slavery, but I had never seen the specifics in print. This is chilling. Elijah Prattis was a member of a large family of free African Americans who lived in the Murderkill Hundred area for years. He was convicted of aiding a runaway slave and was sentenced to a $500 fine and 7 years of servitude. He was enslaved by the man who claimed he aided his runaway slave, and sold out of state, even though there were laws against selling slaves out of the state in Delaware.