| Louisiana - 1825 - 804 páginas
...contracting marriage, and of forming other engagements. ART. 35. — A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him,...: he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but what must belong to his master. ART. 36. — Manumitted persons are those who having... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - 1827 - 190 páginas
...slave under the civil law. According to the law of Louisiana, " A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and his labour: he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but what must belong to his master."... | |
| George Bourne - 1833 - 228 páginas
...INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER." In Louisiana, " A slave is one who is in the power of a master, to whom he belongs ; the master may sell him,...; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what belongs to his master. Civ. Code, Art. 35." Tried by these definitions, human slavery... | |
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| Shipley Wells Willson - 1835 - 54 páginas
...religion." We may find what Slavery is, by a reference to the laws of the slave States : — " A slave is one who is in the power of his master, to whom...may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his... | |
| William Jay - 1835 - 234 páginas
...slavery, are, it will be perceived, from high authority : " A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labor; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master."... | |
| 1835 - 642 páginas
...slavery are, it will be perceived, from high authority :— " ' A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labour; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his... | |
| 1837 - 588 páginas
...principles of God's word. A slave is defined, in the Louisiana code, to be "one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labour; he can do nothing, posess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master."... | |
| William Jay - 1835 - 230 páginas
...slavery are, it will be perceived, from high authority:— " A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labour; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 184 páginas
...or to use his power for his own good. " A slave," says the Louisiana Code, " is in the power of the master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing, but which must belong to his... | |
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