 | Louisiana - Civics - 1825 - 804 pages
...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 - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...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 - Slavery - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 - Slavery - 1835 - 184 pages
...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,...acquire any thing, but which must belong to his master." " Slaves shall be deemed, taken, reputed, and adjudged," say the South Carolina laws, " to be chattels... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 230 pages
...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 labour; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master."... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 642 pages
...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 labour; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but which must belong to his master.'... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 588 pages
...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 to his master."... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1835 - 184 pages
...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 master. The law of South Carolina adjudges slaves " to be chattels personal... | |
 | Slavery - 1838 - 148 pages
...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 to his... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 194 pages
...purposes whatsoever." The law of Louisiana declares: — " A slave 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 labor ; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what 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. 
