The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative FactsAmerican and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853 - 431 páginas |
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... Christianity , " and " History of Slavery and Anti - S avery NEW - YORK : AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI - SLAVERY SOCIETY , 48 BEEKMAN 1853 . STREET . = 1.14 PUBLIC LIBRARY 156978 ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS . THIRD EDITION WITHIN ...
... Christianity , " and " History of Slavery and Anti - S avery NEW - YORK : AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI - SLAVERY SOCIETY , 48 BEEKMAN 1853 . STREET . = 1.14 PUBLIC LIBRARY 156978 ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS . THIRD EDITION WITHIN ...
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... Christians , Churches , and Ministers - The Respon- sibilities of Citizens , of Society , of Civil Government , of Legislators , of Magistrates - Scrutiny of the Legality of American Slavery - The Heaven- prescribed Remedy - The ...
... Christians , Churches , and Ministers - The Respon- sibilities of Citizens , of Society , of Civil Government , of Legislators , of Magistrates - Scrutiny of the Legality of American Slavery - The Heaven- prescribed Remedy - The ...
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... Christian Emperors , is generally referred to in our slave States , as containing the principles of their " peculiar ... Christ and his apostles did not disapprove it , but gave it their sanction , are for- ward to remind us that it ...
... Christian Emperors , is generally referred to in our slave States , as containing the principles of their " peculiar ... Christ and his apostles did not disapprove it , but gave it their sanction , are for- ward to remind us that it ...
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... Christ and his apostles as innocent , or ( as others express it ) not condemned , disapproved or censured by them ... Christian America than it ever was in Pagan Rome . Our slavery allows no peculium or exempted prop- erty to be held ...
... Christ and his apostles as innocent , or ( as others express it ) not condemned , disapproved or censured by them ... Christian America than it ever was in Pagan Rome . Our slavery allows no peculium or exempted prop- erty to be held ...
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... Christianity , he ( the slaveholder ) is taught to ' do unto others as he would have others do unto him , ' he never dreams that the degraded negro is within the pale of that holy canon " We learn from this that the Southern pulpit has ...
... Christianity , he ( the slaveholder ) is taught to ' do unto others as he would have others do unto him , ' he never dreams that the degraded negro is within the pale of that holy canon " We learn from this that the Southern pulpit has ...
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Página 126 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 173 - The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect. I most freely confess my sense of the harshness of this proposition. I feel it as deeply as any man can. And, as a principle of moral right, every person in his retirement must repudiate it; but in the actual condition of things it must be so.
Página 411 - That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States, has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States, the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due, or his, her, or their agent or attorney...
Página 23 - Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.
Página 402 - Commentaries remarks that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Página 411 - And be it further enacted, That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States, has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States, the person or persons to...
Página 414 - Fugitive will be rescued by force from his or their possession before he can be taken beyond the limits of the State in which the arrest is made, it shall be the duty of the officer making the arrest to retain such Fugitive in his custody, and to remove him to the State whence he fled, and there to deliver him to the said claimant, his Agent or Attorney.
Página 246 - The second, when the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment of his slave, and the judge shall deem proper to pronounce, besides the penalty established for such cases, that the slave shall be sold at public auction, in order to place him out of the reach of the power which his master has abused.
Página 413 - That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct, hinder, or prevent such claimant, his agent or attorney, or any person or persons lawfully assisting him, her, or them, from arresting such a fugitive from service or labor, either with or without process as aforesaid, or shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, such fugitive from service or labor, from the custody of such claimant, his or her agent or attorney, or other person or persons lawfully assisting...
Página 238 - He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.