| George McDowell Stroud - 1827 - 192 páginas
...as to character, and with but little consideration as to motives. Thus it is enacted in Georgia — "If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 160 páginas
...power, &c. for dispersing such assemblies, &c. 2 Brevard's Digest, 254-5. Prohibition of Self-defence. If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 páginas
...such slave may be lawfully killed.' — 2 Brevard's Digest, 231. The following is a law of Georgia. ' If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, i.pon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
| American Anti-Slavery Society - 1839 - 236 páginas
...such slave may be lawfully killed.' — 2 Brevard's Digest, 231. The following is a law of Georgia. ' If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
| South Carolina - 1840 - 748 páginas
...of such summons before the said justice. XXIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and81"™ wtl° . . conviction before the justice or justices and freeholders, aforesaid,... | |
| British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society - 1841 - 308 páginas
...slave may be lawfully killed.'— 2 Brevard's Digest, 231. " The following is a law of Georgia : ' If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 652 páginas
...mercies of these laws, to which Gov. H. says the master is responsible. The law of Georgia says : — " If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
| 1846 - 302 páginas
...&c. for dispersing such assemblies, &c. — 2 Brevard's Digest, 254-5. PROHIBITION OF SELF-DBEEKCB. If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
| Charles Elliott - 1850 - 358 páginas
...master only, but to the will of all other white persons." (Stroud, p. 97.) An act of Georgia declares, "If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
| Lewis W. Paine - 1851 - 208 páginas
...no difference ; if he resists, he does it at his peril. The following is the law upon this subject. "If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial, and conviction before the Justice, or Justices, according to the direction of this Act,... | |
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