THE AMERICAN SLAVE CODE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: ITS DISTINCTIVE FEATURES SHOWN BY ITS STATUTES, JUDICIAL DECISIONS, AND ILLUSTRATIVE FACTS. "Truth is stranger than Fictior (Modern Agxim)** ❝ Statutes against Fundamental Morality are void →– (Judge Mỹ Leon, U. S. Supreme Court.) BY WILLIAM GOODELL; Author of the "Democracy of Christianity," and "History of Slavery and Anti-Slavery.' NEW-YORK: AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, 48 BEEKMAN STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by WILLIAM GOODELL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. JOHN A. GRAY, Printer, 95 & 97 Cliff, cor. Frankfort Street. Fundamental idea of modern Slaveholding, namely, the assumed principle of Human Chattelhood, or Property in Mar, constituting the relation of Owner Sale-Purchase-Barter-Mortgage-Aiction-Cofle-gang-Shipments-as absolutely as in the case of any other Property, and by the same tenure, 44 SEIZURE OF SLAVE PROPERTY FOR DEBT. As Property, Slaves may be seized and sold to pay the debts of their Owners, while living, or for the Settlement of their Estates after their Decease,..... 63 |