 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.  Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va: A Minister ... - Page 99by Samuel Macpherson Janney - 1890 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robyn R. Warhol, Diane Price Herndl - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 1238 pages
...state, fixed in time and space, then the law articulates this impossibility as its inherent feature: "Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and...be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | William S. Pollitzer - Social Science - 1999 - 344 pages
...hereafter, absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother, and shall be deemed, held, 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... | |
 | Jon-Christian Suggs - Social Science - 2009 - 416 pages
...a running discourse on life under the law for 190 pages: In all the slave states, the law says: — "Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - Literary Collections - 2000 - 1066 pages
...sufficient: — 'The slave is ENTIRELY subject to the WILL of his master. Louisiana Civil Code, Art. 273. 'Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and...be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, TO ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND... | |
 | Mason Lowance - Literary Collections - 2000 - 390 pages
...slave states). The law of South Carolina thus lays down the principle, Slaves shall be deemed, held, 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... | |
 | Hortense J. Spillers - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 571 pages
...state, fixed in time and space, then the law articulates this impossibility as its inherent feature: "Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and...be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 126 pages
...punishment to any extent, not affecting life or limb.—p. 452. SOUTH CAROLINA.—BretWs Digest.—Slaves shall be deemed sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions and... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...no God, no heaven, no hell; if, in short, they are what the slave code declares them to be, rightly "deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged in law...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...slave states.) The law of South Carolina thus lays down the principle, Slaves shall be deemed, held, 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... | |
 | C. Bradley Thompson - Abolitionists - 324 pages
...no God, no heaven, no hell; if, in short, they are, what the Slave Code declares them to be, rightly "deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged in law...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
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