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" For being found in another person's Negro-quarters, forty lashes; for hunting with dogs in the woods, thirty lashes; for being on horseback without the written permission of his master, twenty-five lashes; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding... "
An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and ... - Page 134
by William Jay - 1835 - 206 pages
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A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United ...

George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...In Maryland, thirty-nine stripes is the penalty for harbouring one hour. Act of 1748, chap. 19, §4. A slave for being on horseback without the written...permission of his master, incurs twenty-five lashes, 1 Martin's Digest, 622; for keeping a dog, the like punishment, 1 Rev. Code, (Mississippi) 379; for...
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1833 - 262 pages
...chooses. For riding on horseback, without written permission, or for keeping a dog, twentyfive lashes. For rambling, riding, or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the day without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, or branded on the cheek with the letter R, or otherwise...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 14; Volume 62

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 pages
...without the written permission of his master, incurs twenty-five I«shes ; for keeping a dog, the Jlike punishment. ' By the law of Maryland, for " rambling,...or riding horses in the day-time, without leave, a dare may be whipt, crop/, or branded on the cheek with the letter R, or otherwise punished, not extending...
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"Liberty": The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United ...

Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...lashes; for being on horseback without the written permission of his master, twenty-five lash. e>; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the day time, without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, or branded in the cheek with the letter R,...
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American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 236 pages
...lashes ; for being on horseback without the written permission of his master, twenty-five lashes; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the day time, without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, or branded in the cheek with the letter R,...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 8

1841 - 832 pages
...lathee ; for being on honeback, without the written permission of his master, taenty-ßre lathet; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the daytime, without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, ur branded in the cheek with the letter R, or otherwise punished, not extending to...
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Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America ...

British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 308 pages
...lashes ; for being on horseback without the written permission of his master, twenty-Jive lashes ; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the day time, without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, or branded in the cheek with the letter B,...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 3

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1845 - 652 pages
...lashes ; for being on horseback without the written permission of his master, twenty five lashes ; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the day time without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, or branded in the cheek with the letter R,...
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The Black Code of the District of Columbia, in Force September 1st, 1848

Worthington Garrettson Snethen - History - 1848 - 100 pages
...XXVI. SLAVES GUILTY OP RAMBLING, RUNNING AWAY, &C. HOW PUNISHED. Where any slave shall be guilty of rambling, riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the day time without leave, or running away, it shall be lawful for the justices of the County Court and...
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Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its ..., Volume 1

Charles Elliott - Slavery - 1850 - 358 pages
...lashes; for being on horseback without the written permission of his master, twenty -five lashes; for riding or going abroad in the night, or riding horses in the daytime, without leave, a slave may be whipped, cropped, or branded on the cheek with the letter R, or otherwise punished, not extending to...
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