The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-03-10
JUST PUBLIsHR ED,
BY the Americdn and Foreign Anti Slavery So
etety, and for sale al their rooms, No. AZ
Beekman street Ne0 York,

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By the american and Foreign Anti. Slavery So
ctety, and for sale al their rooms, No 48
Beekman street, New York,
UT,HE AMERICAN SLAVE CODE, in theory and
l. practice its distinctive features shown by its
Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts"
| by WILLIAM GooDELL. author of the 4" Democracy
of Christianity Slavery and Anti-Slavery" &c.
Now York American and Foreign Anti Slavery Soci-
| ETY., AZ Beekman street The work contains 430
pages limo, neatly bound in cloth and will be sold
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| New York february, 1858.
Ertraa Of a Letter from Hon. William Jag to tks
AHth0y.
&" Your analysis of tho slave laws is very able, AVID
your exhibition Of their practical application by tho
Southern courts evinces great and careful research
Your book is as impregnable against the charge Of
exaggeration as Eucds Geometry, since like that,
II consists of propositions and demonstrations. Tho
book is not only true but it is mnq'eaiOnabiy true"
CONTENTS.
Preliminary Chapter
PART The Relation Of Master and .Si1Ur.
CHAP, |. Slave Ownership.
g. Slave Traffic.
g. Seizure of Slave Property for Debt
4 Inheritance of Slave Property
g. Uses of Slave Property.
g. Slaves can Possess Nothing
T. Slaves cannot Marry.
4. Slaves cannot Constitute Families
y. Unlimited Power Of Shareholders.
10. Labor Of Slaves.
II. Food Clothing and Dwellings of Slaves
IL. COorced Labor without Wages
Is. Punishmonts Of slaves by tho Owner and
IA. OF Laws concerning the Murder and Killing
Of Slaves.
Is. 0ftho Delegated Power of 0versoors
10. or tho Protection of Slave Property from
Damage by Assaults from othor Persons
thsn their Owners.
II Facts Illustrating the Kind and Degrco of
Protection Extended to Slavos
IL. Fugitives from Slavery.
10. The Slave cannot Sue his Muster
20 No Power OF Self Redemption or Change Of
Masters
81. The Relation Hereditary and Perpetual
%. Rights 10 Education -Religious Liberty
Rights of Conscience.
%. Origin of the Relation and its Subjects
PART H.-Rsiatian of the Stare 10 Soc,etv anu Ia
CiuI Gopeynme1t
CHAr !. of tho Ground and Nature of tho savo's
Civil Condition.
2 No Access 10 the Judiciary, and no Honest
Provision for Testing tho Claims of tho
Enslayed 10 Freedom
3. Rejection of Testimony of Slaves and Froc
Colored Persons
4 Subsection to all White Persons
b. Penal Laws against Slaves.
O. Education Prohibited
7 Free Social Worship and Religious Instruo-
ton Prohibited
=. Legislative, Judicial and Constitutional Oh.
structions ~ Emancipation.
PAur IIl.Relar'oa Of !Siape Code 10 tAs Li5crt,rs
Of the Free
Omar. l. Liberties Of the Free pooplo OF Color
2. Liberties Of tho White People OF tho Slave
holding States
3. Liberties Of the White People of tho Non
Rlayeholding States.
Concluding Chapter.
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