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The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice; Its Distinctive Features Shown by the Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts
The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice Its Distinctive Features Shown by the Statutes Judicial Decisions and Illustrative Facts Author:William Goodell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society Subjects: Slavery Slavery in the United States History / United States / General History / United States / 19th Century Law / Legal History Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies... more » Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Social Science / Slavery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. SLAVE TRAFFIC. Sale -- Purchase -- Barter -- Mortgage -- Auction -- Coffle-gang -- Shipment! -- As absolutely as In the case of any other Property, and by the same Tenure. This feature must result, of necessity, from "the legal relation" of ownership exhibited in the first chapter. The quotations there made cover explicitly this ground. " The master may sell him." " Slaves shall be sold." " Sold, transferred, or pawned as goods, or personal estate, far goods they were, and as such they were esteemed." Any modification of this feature must evidently relax the application of the principle of ownership, and limit its operation. In the Spanish, Portuguese, and French colonies, such modifications, nevertheless, obtained. The Code Noir, art. 47, prohibits the selling of the husband without the wife, the parents without the children, or vice versa. In cases of voluntary sales, made contrary to this regulation, the wife or husband, the children or parents, though expressly retained by the seller, pass, by the same conveyance, to the purchaser, and may be claimed byhim without any additional price. (See Stephen's Slavery, 69 ; Stroud's Sketch, 51.) What bearing this humane regulation would have upon our int...« less