... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them. Annual Register - Pàgina 333editat per - 1801Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Paul Leland Haworth - 1915 - 402 pàgines
...disagreeable consequences from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure...which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them." The number of his own slaves at the time of his death was one hundred twenty- four. Of dower negroes... | |
| Paul Wilstach - 1916 - 426 pàgines
...disagreeable consequences from the latter while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure...Negroes are held to manumit them And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise there may be some who from old age, or bodily... | |
| William Jackson Johnstone - 1919 - 332 pàgines
...not disagreeable consequences to the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure...negroes are held, to manumit them. And whereas, among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there may be some who, from old age or bodily... | |
| Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 pàgines
...not disagreeable consequences to the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power under the tenure...which the dower negroes are held to manumit them." "The will further provides that all slaves who at the time of their emancipation are unable, by reason... | |
| Eugene Ernst Prussing - 1927 - 694 pàgines
...disagreeable consequences from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower Negros are held, to manumit them. — And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to... | |
| Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 pàgines
...disagreeable consequences from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same Proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure...Negroes are held, to manumit them. — And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there may be some, who from old age or bodily... | |
| James P. Pfiffner - 2003 - 230 pàgines
...my Will & desire that all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom ... it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the Dower Negroes are held, to manumit them. . . . [T]hey . . . shall be comfortably cloathed & fed by my heirs while they live . . . taught to... | |
| Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 pàgines
...to the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being la my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them. And whereas, among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there may be some, who, from old age or bodily... | |
| Robert W. Watson - 2007 - 544 pàgines
...is my Will & desire that all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom... it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the Dower Negroes are held, to manumit them... they... shall be comfortably cloathed & fed by my heirs while they live... taught to read & write;... | |
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