A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to the Present Day. Mainly Compiled and Condensed from the Journals of Congress and Other Official Records, and Showing the Vote by Yeas and Nays on the Most Important Divisions in Either HouseDix, Edwards & Company, 1856 - 164 páginas |
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... held in vir- tual bondage by force rather of custom than of positive law , serve rather to establish than disprove this general statement . Africa , whom their eternal wars and maraud- ing invasions were constantly exposing to captivity ...
... held in vir- tual bondage by force rather of custom than of positive law , serve rather to establish than disprove this general statement . Africa , whom their eternal wars and maraud- ing invasions were constantly exposing to captivity ...
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... held this declaration a bar to slaveholding henceforth in the state . A similar clause in the second Constitution of New - Hampshire , was held by the courts of that State to secure freedom to every child , born therein after its ...
... held this declaration a bar to slaveholding henceforth in the state . A similar clause in the second Constitution of New - Hampshire , was held by the courts of that State to secure freedom to every child , born therein after its ...
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... held as slaves in England , and that even baptism was no bar to the mas- ter's claim . This opinion was , in 1749 , held to be sound law by Yorke ( now Lord Hard- wicke ) , sitting as Judge , on the ground that , if the contrary ruling ...
... held as slaves in England , and that even baptism was no bar to the mas- ter's claim . This opinion was , in 1749 , held to be sound law by Yorke ( now Lord Hard- wicke ) , sitting as Judge , on the ground that , if the contrary ruling ...
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... held to service or labor in one State , under the laws thereof , escaping into another , shall , in consequence of any law or regu lation therein , be discharged from such service or labor , but shall be delivered up on claim of the ...
... held to service or labor in one State , under the laws thereof , escaping into another , shall , in consequence of any law or regu lation therein , be discharged from such service or labor , but shall be delivered up on claim of the ...
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... held at service or labor , " was proposed by Mr. Butler , of South Carolina , and adopted , with little or no opposition . The following , among the amendments to the Constitution proposed by the ratifying conventions of one or more ...
... held at service or labor , " was proposed by Mr. Butler , of South Carolina , and adopted , with little or no opposition . The following , among the amendments to the Constitution proposed by the ratifying conventions of one or more ...
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