A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of AmericaKimber and Sharpless, 1827 - 171 Seiten |
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... punishment , not extending to life or limb , as the said justices and freeholders , who try such offender , shall in their discretion think fit . " See Acts of the Session of Dec. 1821 , page 20 ; and James ' Digest , 390 . By comparing ...
... punishment , not extending to life or limb , as the said justices and freeholders , who try such offender , shall in their discretion think fit . " See Acts of the Session of Dec. 1821 , page 20 ; and James ' Digest , 390 . By comparing ...
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... punishment to be inflicted on conviction . Under the act of 1740 , the tribunal consists of one justice and two ... punished twice for one and the same offence - a conclusion , which is forbidden by a principle of criminal jurisprudence ...
... punishment to be inflicted on conviction . Under the act of 1740 , the tribunal consists of one justice and two ... punished twice for one and the same offence - a conclusion , which is forbidden by a principle of criminal jurisprudence ...
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... punished at the discretion of their lord , or even put to death by his authority . " This description is to be taken as applicable to the condition of slaves at an early period of the Roman history ; for before the fall of the Roman ...
... punished at the discretion of their lord , or even put to death by his authority . " This description is to be taken as applicable to the condition of slaves at an early period of the Roman history ; for before the fall of the Roman ...
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... punish his slave , a limitation seems to be contemplated by the following article : " The slave is entirely subject to the will of his master , who may correct and chastise him , though not with unusual rigour , or so as to maim or ...
... punish his slave , a limitation seems to be contemplated by the following article : " The slave is entirely subject to the will of his master , who may correct and chastise him , though not with unusual rigour , or so as to maim or ...
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... punished for the breach of the peace , and , I believe , the slave was allowed to demand sure- ties of the peace against a violent and barbarous master . Under these regu owners and possessors , and their executors , administrators and 23.
... punished for the breach of the peace , and , I believe , the slave was allowed to demand sure- ties of the peace against a violent and barbarous master . Under these regu owners and possessors , and their executors , administrators and 23.
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Seite 136 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Seite 138 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety...
Seite 173 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Seite ii - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Seite vii - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Seite 163 - in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade," so far as the same is applicable to the present case. From this I make the following extract: Under the second section of this act the President is ' ' authorized to make such regulations and arrangements as he may deem expedient for the safe-keeping, support, and removal beyond the limits of the United States of all such negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color...
Seite 120 - ... to be allowed counsel; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have process for his witnesses; to examine the witnesses for and against him on oath; and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury, without whose unanimous consent he ought not to be found guilty.
Seite 41 - The slave is entirely subject to the will of his master, who may correct and chastise him, though not with unusual rigor, nor so as to maim or mutilate him, or to expose him to the danger of loss of life, or to cause his death," and provides for a compulsory sale.
Seite 120 - Any person who shall maliciously dismember or deprive a slave of life, shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like...
Seite 172 - ... or arrested, doth, under the laws of the state or territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor to the state or territory from which he or she fled.