 Ford.] after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities, and an immortal principle in his nature, that constitute him equal to his owner, but for the accidental position in which fortune has placed him.  Tennessee Historical Magazine - Page 55edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
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...is true, and his owner controls his actions and claims his services. But he is made [Ford vs. Ford.] after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities,...held as a slave, have not and cannot extinguish his high born nature, nor deprive him of many rights which are inherent in man. Thus, while he is a slave,... | |
 | Caleb Perry Patterson - African Americans - 1922 - 226 pages
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 | Robert Ewing Corlew - Tennessee - 1990 - 660 pages
...in 1846 in Ford v. Ford, with "mental capacities" and an "immortal principle in his nature" to make him "equal to his owner but for the accidental position in which fortune has placed him." As representatives of the people, Tennessee legislators wrestled with their consciences with regard... | |
 | Peter W. Bardaglio - Social Science - 1998 - 388 pages
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 | Ezekiel Birdseye, Durwood Dunn - Abolitionists - 1997 - 328 pages
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 | Rogers M. Smith - Political Science - 1997 - 740 pages
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 | Jenny Bourne (Professor of Economics), Jenny Bourne Wahl - History - 1998 - 302 pages
...is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.1 [The slave] is made after the image of the Creator. He has mental...accidental position in which fortune has placed him. - Ford v. Ford, 7 Humph. 92, 95 (Tn. 1846) To Southern judges, was a slave property or a human being... | |
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...horse or an ox. . . . [H]e is made after the image of the Creator," Green wrote in Ford v. Ford (1846). "He has mental capacities and an immortal principle...the accidental position in which fortune has placed him."1" Despite such lofty expressions, the Court — as all southern supreme courts — had the difficult... | |
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