THE

AMERICAN SLAVE
SLAVE CODE

IN THEORY AND PRACTICE:

ITS

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES

SHOWN BY

ITS STATUTES, JUDICIAL DECISIONS,

AND

ILLUSTRATIVE FACTS.

"Truth is stranger than Fiction."—(Modern Maxim.)

66 Statutes against Fundamental Morality are void."— (Judge M'Lean, U. S. Supreme Court.)

BY

WILLIAM GOODELL,

Autuo of the "Democracy of Christianity," and "History of Slavery and Anti-S. avery."

SECOND EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,

48 BEEKMAN

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