 | Louisiana - 1825 - 804 pàgines
...contracting marriage, and of forming other engagements. ART. 35. — 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 any thing but what must belong to his... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - 1827 - 190 pàgines
...slave under the civil law. According to the law of Louisiana, " 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 labour: he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but what must belong to his... | |
 | George Bourne - 1833 - 228 pàgines
...INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER." In Louisiana, " 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 belongs to his master.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 184 pàgines
...duration of his toil, a right to confine him to any bounds, a right to extort the required work by stripes, a right, in a word, to use him as a tool,...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."... | |
 | 1837 - 588 pàgines
...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,...person, his industry, his labour; he can do nothing, posess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master." The laws of South Corolina... | |
 | William Jay - 1835 - 234 pàgines
...slavery, are, it will be perceived, from high authority : " 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, his labor; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master."... | |
 | Shipley Wells Willson - 1835 - 54 pàgines
...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 to his master."... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1836 - 194 pàgines
...intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever." The law of Louisiana declares: — " A slave is one who is in the power of the master to whom he belongs....may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what must belong to his master."... | |
 | 1838 - 148 pàgines
...must first settle the 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....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 to his... | |
 | William Jay - 1837 - 216 pàgines
...slavery, are, it will be perceived, from high authority : " 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, his labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master."... | |
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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. 
