 | Louisiana - Civics - 1825 - 804 pages
...advanced in life to be capable of contracting marriage, and of forming other engagements. ART. 35.—A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom...: 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 been... | |
 | 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...nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what belongs to his master. Civ. Code, Art. 35." Tried by these definitions, human slavery is one of the... | |
 | Francis John Higginson - Black people - 1834 - 122 pages
...see what the laws say. Slavery as established by Law. " A slave," says the civil code of Louisiana, " is one who is in the power of a master to whom he...may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labor; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing, but what must belong to his master."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Jay - Slavery - 1835 - 222 pages
...law. 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 labor; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master."... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 234 pages
...law. 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 labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his... | |
 | William Jay - History - 1835 - 218 pages
...law. 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 labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his... | |
 | William Jay - 1835 - 228 pages
...law. 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 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... | |
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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. 
