 | William Watts Folwell - Dakota Indians - 1924 - 528 pages
...the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever"; (2) "The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves... | |
 | Slavery - 1969 - 430 pages
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 | Slavery - 1852 - 220 pages
...the new constitution of Texas. The clause is as follow«: " SLAVES. " Section 1. — The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of their owners, nor without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, an equivalent in money... | |
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State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States... 
