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Slaves sold for distribution, 75

66 wanted by dealers, 54

66

66

66

66

66

66

for sale by dealers, 54-5
taken, and for sale for debt,

66-7

"acclimated," for sale, 81-2
"breeder" for sale, 84
"damaged" wanted, 87
fugitives in search of their
families, 119

Reward for evidence to convict a
mother of the crime of "harbor-
ing" her son, 119

Of a wife in search of her hus-
band, 119

Reward offered for killing a slave
for running off with his wife, 120
Describing fugitives scarred, bran-
ded, cropped, shot, &c., 219-20
"Negro dogs" and slave hunting,
236-7

"White" slaves, 284-5
Agricultural Societies, Southern, (testi-
mony of,) 81
Alabama: slaves ill clothed, 146; le-
galized slave discipline, 165; laws
vs. harboring fugitives. 233; mode of
testing claims to freedom, 299; laws
vs. preaching, 322; laws vs. emanci-
pation, 341-3

Alarm at negroes reading, 336
Alexandria, (D. C.) coroner's inquest,
'81

Allan, Rev. Wm. T., (Testimony,) 39,
148, 3 2

Am. Bible Soc and slave families, 115
Amer. Colonization Soc. (See Coloni-
zation Soc)

Ameliorations impracticable, 293
Ancient slavery, "peculium," 96

An aunt in Court, claiming nieces as
slaves of other nieces, 241-2

Appendix A, Fugitive Slave Bill, 409
66 B, Cherokees and Choc-
taws, 417

Hawkins, Sir John, 258, 271

Judson, A. T., 336

Judiciary perverted, 207
Jury trial, why denied, 261

Kentucky slaves real estate, 24; but
sold as chattels, 24; Presb. Synod,
(Testimony,) 53, 55, 110, 222, 333;
slaves may not traffic, 98 no hire
out, 103; nor carry weapons, 229;
free colored degraded, 300: laws vs.
slaves, 3:2-15; hopeless ignorance,'
323-4; laws vs. emancipation, 343
Kidnapping, 279

Knowledge, incendiary, 337

Labor of slaves, 78, 128, &c., 150, &c.

wife and children, 119
Hebrew servitude, 292

Hereditary and perpetual slavery, 248
Hill, John W., (Testimony, 214-15
History of S C, Testimony,) 132
Hitchcock, Judge H., (Ala.) concerned
in slave-trade, 59, 175

Home Mission, Meth., put down, 336-7
Honesty of slave property sold and
warranted, 32

House slaves, their condition, 111, 117,
200

Humanity punished more than cruelty,

163

Hunger of slaves, 141-
Hunting slaves, 234
Huntsman, Hon. Adam, 386
Hymn books, incendiary, 324

Ill treatment, no legal remedy for, 125,
242-3

Illegal importation of slaves, 260, &c.
Imprisonment of slaves by owner, 166-7
Increase of slaves, 70, 72; belong to
ulterior legatee, 72; may be sold by
Orphans' Court, 72; subject to mort-
gage, 64-5

Infants cannot be emancipated, (Md)
349

Indians enslaved, 28, 267-8, 282, 296
Indiana excludes colored witnesses,
359

Inheritance of slave property, 69

Lady advertising a fugitive wife in
search of her husband, 119
Leftwich, Wm., (Testimony,) 144, 146
Legality of slavery, 19, 262, &c.
Legislation, none creating slavery.
261, &c.

Lewis Lillburn, his barbarity, 88
Lexington Ky.) Luminary, (Testi
mony,) 111

66

Liberty of free people of color, 355, &c.,
66 of whites at the South, 372, &c.
of whites at the North, 389
License to marry e, ancipates, 106
Licentiousness produced by slavery,
111

Life of slave in his owner's hands, 125
66 taken without jury, 314
Littleton, Lord, 20, 401-2
Louisiana: property tenure of slaves,
23; held as real estate, 24; war.
ranty of slaves, 31; ameliorated
code, 46; allows a peculium, 90;
slave families, 114; law of slaves'
labor, 130; food, clothing, &c., 135;
of punishments, 161; iron collars
authorized, 163; overseer's author.
ity, 198; damages to slave property.
203 slaves on horseback, 229; relief
from ill treatment, 246; penal laws
vs. slaves, 314-15; vs. free speech
and press, 322; religious privileges
of slaves, 322; vs. emancipation,

Lowry, Nancy, (Testimony,) 213
Lynch Committee, Mo.) 316

Madison, James, sister of, (Testimony,)
111

Madison, James, denied the right of
property in man, 270

Maltby, S E, (Testimony,) 146
Mansfield, Lord. 259, 270

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Marriage of slaves abrogated, 105, &c.
of whites restricted, 376, &c.
Martinique, comparative lenity shown
to slaves, 45

Martin, Judge, 262, 248

Maryland chattel tenure, 25; issue of
female slaves, 30; bequests to slaves
void, 91; slaves may not traffic, 99;
naked and starved, 145; damages to
slave property, 202; whites and
blacks required to have "passes,"
227-8; slaves rambling or riding,
229; killing slaves authorized, 230;
slavery hereditary and perpetual,
248; enslaving white women and
their children, 273; emancipated ne-
groes reënslaved, 275, 359; trial of
claims to freedom, 298; cropping
free blacks, 306; penal laws vs.
slaves, 213-16; laws of emancipa-
tion, 343; relig. privileges of slaves,
322

Mason, Mr., (Va.) 261

Massachusetts, submission to slave
law, 363

Matthews, Judge, (La.) 107, 188, 206,
264, 266-7-8, 293

Meade, Bishop, (Testimony,) 334
"Merciful safety-valve," 133-4
Meth. E. Church, exclusion of colored
witnesses, 159; class imprisoned,
226; missions suppressed, 336, 383
Miner, Mr., (M. C.) (Testimony,) 361
Ministry for slaves, 334

Mississippi: slave importation, 48;
constitutional power of Legislature
to relieve ill-treated slaves, not exer-
cised, 168, 246; enslaves free ne-
groes, 276; penal laws vs. slaves,
312-13; free worship forbidden, 331;
laws vs. emancipation, 341-3; ex-
pulsion of free colored people, 356;
no freedom of speech or of the press,
385.

Missouri: slaves may not traffic, 99;
laws concerning cruelty, 165, &c.;
masters may imprison slaves, 166-7;
slaves forbidden weapons, 229; test-
ing claims to freedom, 299; Lynch
law, burning free negro, 316; no
freedom of speech or of the press,
386

Mixed race, 380, &c.
"Moderate correction,"

180

,” “death under,'

Mortgage of slaves, 24, 63-4
Mosely, Rev. Mr.. (Conn.) sale of wife
from husband, 114

Mother (free) cannot sue for relief of a

slave daughter from ill treatment, 125
Moulton, Horace, (Testimony,) 142-3
Municipal law, slavery under, 262, &c.
Murders of slaves, law of, 177, &c. ;
frequency of, 210; instances of, 210-
12, &c.; of a slave child, 88; im-
punity of white murderers, 88, 210;
doubts of Judges whether the murder
of a slave be indictable, 192, 194;
murders punished to protect slave
property, 192-3; virtually commuted
for a verdict for pecuniary damages,
208

"Negro's head" advertised, 39
Negro pew, 370

"Negro dogs" (for slave hunting) ad-
vertised, 336-7

New-Jersey, Indians enslaved, 28, 266
New-Orleans Argus, Testimony,) 81
New-Orleans Bee, (Testimony,) 285
New-Orleans Picayune, (Testimony,)
383

New-Orleans Bible Society disclaims
the intention of giving Bibles to
slaves, 383

Nieces suing their aunt for their free
dom, 241-2

Niles' Register, (Testimony,) 285

No appeal of a slave from his master,
126

No prosecution for battery on a slave,
171

No right of redemption from slavery,
245

No access to judiciary, 295, &c

No statutes creating slavery, 258,
268, &c.

North Carolina Baptist Convention,
(Testimony,) 336

North Carolina: law of slave legacies,
69, 70; "slaves cannot take by de-
scent," &c., 91; may not traffic,
98-9; law of food, clothing, &c.,
136; of killing slaves, 180, 230-1;
outlawry of, 180; damages to slave
property, 203; slaves without pass,
229; enslaving free colored persons,
276; no freedom of speech or of the
press, 385; freedom quarantined,
363; penal laws vs. slaves, 312–13–14;
education prohibited, 321; Bibles for-
bidden, 324; laws vs. emancipation,
341; preaching forbidden, 358; free
colored people legally plundered,