 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1862 - 914 pages
...before the law. By her own statutes and legal decisions, her principal laboring class are "deemed, held, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law, to be chattels...assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatever." Thus the whole structure of society at the South is based upon the forcible and legalized... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1846 - 632 pages
...and briefly expressed in the law of South Carolina, which says, that "slaves shall be claimed, held, taken, reputed, and adjudged, in law, to be CHATTELS...possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, то ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER." Having thus defined slavery, Mr. B. states... | |
 | Slavery - 1844 - 166 pages
...(the slave-holding) stales. In South Carolina it is expressed in In the following language: 'Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged...all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever.' * * * * 'In case the personal property of a ward shall consist of specific articles, such as slaves,... | |
 | 1844 - 524 pages
...esteemed." According to the laws of South Carolina, " slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, and reputed to be CHATTELS PERSONAL in the hands of their owners and possessors, their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever."... | |
 | 1846 - 656 pages
...In the language of the law, "held, taken, reputed, and adjudged to be a chattel in the hands of my owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators,...intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever." — Brev. Digest, 224. In the Northern States, a fugitive slave — liable to be hunted at any moment... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - Slavery - 1846 - 536 pages
...that of all other ages and nations. Our whole system is condensed into one single paragraph: " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged...intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever." — 2 Brev. Dig. 229. This is the definition of actual slavery. This law "of South Carolina, with the... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - Slavery - 1846 - 526 pages
...that of all other ages and nations. Our whole system is condensed into one single paragraph: " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged...intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever." — 2 Brev. Dig. 229. This is the definition of actual slavery. This law of South Carolina, with the... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Slavery - 1846 - 416 pages
...in all these [the slave] states." The law of South Carolina says, " Slaves shall be claimed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law, to be CHATTELS...INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER."* The Louisiana code says, " A slave is one who is in the power of the master to whom he belongs ; the... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard, Nathan Lewis Rice - Slavery - 1846 - 534 pages
...condensed into one single paragraph: " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in lav}, to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners...all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever" — 2 Brev. Dig. 229. This is the definition of actual slavery. This law of South Carolina, with the... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - African Americans - 1846 - 72 pages
...one master and his mother to another. || A slave can possess no property ;1T nor is any * " Slaves shall be deemed "sold, taken, reputed and adjudged...their owners, and possessors, and their executors and administrators, to all intents, constructions and puiposes whatever." — Law of South Carolina.... | |
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Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever. 
