 | Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - Law - 1833 - 664 pages
...other half to the state. § 31. Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free n. sec. in. person of color, or slave, to spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction atiempiting thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred to te»cn and fifty... | |
 | William Ingersoll Bowditch - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 182 pages
...In ALABAMA ( Statute, 1832, chap. 8, § 10 ; " Clay's Digest," p. 543, §24)," Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color,...spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred... | |
 | Charles Tennant - United States - 1863 - 330 pages
...hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the common jail, at the.discretion of the Court." In Alabama, " any person who shall attempt to teach any free person...slave to spell, read, or write, shall upon conviction etc., be fined in a sum not less than 250 dollars, nor more than 500 dollars." Thus, as Mr. Cairnes... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 944 pages
...the colored people previous to the act of 1S32, which provided that "Any person or persons who slmll attempt to teach any free person of color or slave...spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than ££iO, nor more than S5ÜÜ." This act also prohibited... | |
 | Education - 1871 - 1022 pages
...relating to the colored people previous to the act of 1832, which provided that "Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color...spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than .CaöO, nor more than 8500." This act also prohibited... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 1152 pages
...equal to the duties of a freeman. ALABAMA had an act in 1832 which declared that "Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color...spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than $250, nor more than $500." This act also prohibited... | |
 | Parker Pillsbury - Abolitionists - 1883 - 520 pages
...Louisiana enactment on the teaching of slaves letters which I can find was in 1830, to this purport : " Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person...conviction thereof, be imprisoned not less than one, nor more than twelve months." But what shall be said to this provision for oral instruction, in that... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...lashes on his or her bare back, well laid on, by order of such justice/' And this from Alabama's : " Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person...of color or slave to spell, read, or write, shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars." And this... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1900 - 1004 pages
...Alabama the law in reference to the education of the negro read as follows: ''Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color...spell, read, or write shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1905 - 896 pages
...permanency of the institution of slavery. In 1832 the law in Alabama provided that Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color...spell, read, or write shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than $250 and not more than $500. The law of 1829 in Georgia... | |
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Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color or slave to spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than $250, nor more than $500. 
