 | Louisiana - 1825 - 804 pagina’s
...conditional obligations, from 2015 to 2037. A simple obligation defined, 2015. SLAVES. A slave is-one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs, 35. The rules for the police, and conduetto be observed with respect to slaves, are fixed by special... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - 1827 - 192 pagina’s
...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...The master may 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... | |
 | George Bourne - 1833 - 228 pagina’s
...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...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 belongs... | |
 | 1835 - 642 pagina’s
...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...The master 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... | |
 | William Jay - 1835 - 230 pagina’s
...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...The master 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... | |
 | 1837 - 588 pagina’s
...righteousness by the unerring- principles of God's word. A slave is defined, in the Louisiana code, to be "one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs....The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, his labour; he can do nothing, posess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 184 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Shipley Wells Willson - 1835 - 54 pagina’s
...is, by a reference to the laws of the slave States : — " A slave is one who is in the power of his 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... | |
 | 1838 - 148 pagina’s
...meaning of the term slavery. "A slave," fays the law of Louisiana, " is one who is in the power of the 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 my thing, but what must belong... | |
 | 1836 - 180 pagina’s
...meaning of the term slmery. " A slave," says the law of Louisiana, " is one who is in the power of the master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, and his labor: he can d» nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing, but what must... | |
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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. 
