An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this SubjectAMS Press, 1973 - 440 páginas |
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... held to service in any one State , if they should leave that service and flee into another , if claimed as those that were held , should be given up ; but even then not until the party who claimed should prove the ser- vice or labor was ...
... held to service in any one State , if they should leave that service and flee into another , if claimed as those that were held , should be given up ; but even then not until the party who claimed should prove the ser- vice or labor was ...
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... held " all the meaning of the word " bound , " or , otherwise , there can be no sense to the expression ; consequently we should give the same meaning to both words . But , to say a slave owes any thing , we must give up the prin- ciple ...
... held " all the meaning of the word " bound , " or , otherwise , there can be no sense to the expression ; consequently we should give the same meaning to both words . But , to say a slave owes any thing , we must give up the prin- ciple ...
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... held ; but , at the end of ten years , they should be set free ; and if any one sold them to be held as slaves a longer time , they should forfeit to the colony forty pounds , which was twice the value of the slave at that time ...
... held ; but , at the end of ten years , they should be set free ; and if any one sold them to be held as slaves a longer time , they should forfeit to the colony forty pounds , which was twice the value of the slave at that time ...
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CHAPTER I | 13 |
CHAPTER II | 36 |
Quotations showing the Character of the People who came | 90 |
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