Southern Sidelights: A Picture of Social and Economic Life in the South a Generation Before the WarT.Y. Crowell, 1896 - 373 Seiten |
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Seite 303 - execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase the liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off
Seite 261 - shall have full power to prevent slaves from being brought into this State as merchandise, and also to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb, and in case of neglect or refusal to comply with the
Seite 303 - prostituted his negative for suppressing every attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase the liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes
Seite 261 - In the prosecution of slaves for crimes of higher grade than petit larceny, the General Assembly shall have no power to deprive them of an impartial trial by a petit jury. " Any person who shall maliciously dismember or deprive a slave of life shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offence had been committed
Seite 261 - Any person who shall maliciously dismember or deprive a slave of life shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offence had been committed on a free white person and
Seite 261 - neglect or refusal to comply with the directions of such laws to have such slave or slaves sold for the benefit of the owner or owners. " In the prosecution of slaves for crimes of
Seite 303 - liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes
Seite 260 - They shall have power to pass laws to permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors and preventing them from becoming a public charge.
Seite 303 - the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Seite 158 - had it not been for the startling fact, disclosed by our late census, that there are nearly sixty thousand of our white population, over twenty years of age, who can neither read nor write. The publication of such a fact throughout the United