 | Louisiana - Civics - 1825 - 804 pages
...conditional obligations, from 2015 to 2037. A simple obligation defined, 2015. SLAVES. A slave is-one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs, 35. The rules for the police, and conduetto be observed with respect to slaves, are fixed by special... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...respect, better than was that of the Roman slave under the civil law. According to the law of Louisiana, " A slave is one who is in the power of a master to...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 - Slavery - 1833 - 228 pages
...administrators, and assigns, TO ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER." In Louisiana, " A slave is one who is in the power of a master, to...; 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... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 230 pages
...The following definitions of American slavery are, it will be perceived, from high authority:— " A slave is one who is in the power of a master to...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... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 642 pages
...The following definitions of American slavery are, it will be perceived, from high authority :— " ' A slave is one who is in the power of a master to...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... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 588 pages
...righteousness by the unerring- 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....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."... | |
 | Shipley Wells Willson - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 54 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1835 - 184 pages
...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... | |
 | Slavery - 1838 - 148 pages
...meaning of the term slavery. "A slave," fays the law of Louisiana, " is one who is in the power of the master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him,...: he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire my thing, but what must belong to his master." "He is a chattel personal," says the law of South Carolina,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1836 - 180 pages
...meaning of the term slmery. " A slave," says the law of Louisiana, " is one who is in the power of the master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him,...of his person, his industry, and his labor: he can d» nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing, but what must belong to his master." " He is a... | |
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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 labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what must belong to his master. 
