The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery

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N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1889 - 268 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 42 - ... 1708. On the 17th of December an Act was revived "imposing three pence per gallon on rum and wine, brandy and spirits, nnd twenty shillings per poll for negroes, for raising a supply to defray the public charge of this Province, and twenty shillings per poll on Irish servants, to prevent the importing too great a number of Irish Papists into this Province.
Σελίδα 187 - An amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1810, limited the right of suffrage to whites. The Declaration of 1851 repeated the words of the Declaration of 1776, that no freeman should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, but by judgment of his peers or the law of the land...
Σελίδα 5 - ... your highnesses, as catholic Christians and princes, lovers and promoters of the holy Christian faith, and enemies of the sect of Mahomet, and of all idolatries and heresies...
Σελίδα 38 - I doe not see how wee can thrive untill wee gett into a stock of slaves sufficient to do all our business, for our children's children will hardly see this great Continent filled with people, soe that our servants will still desire freedome to plant for them selves, & not stay but for verie great wages. And I suppose you know verie well how wee shall maynteyne 20 Moores cheaper than one Englishe servant.
Σελίδα 38 - Continent filled with people, soe that our servants will still desire freedome to plant for them selves, & not stay but for verie great wages. And I suppose you know verie well how wee shall maynteyne 20 Moores cheaper than one Englishe servant.
Σελίδα 149 - This act was entitled, an act to prevent disabled and superannuated slaves being set free, or the manumission of slaves by any last will or testament.
Σελίδα 56 - ... the members of each branch of the general assembly, and shall be published at least three months before a new election of delegates, and shall be confirmed by a unanimous vote of the members of each branch of the general assembly, at the next regular constitutional session after such new election, nor then, without full compensation to the master for the property of which he shall be thereby deprived.
Σελίδα 9 - The simple wish to use the bodily powers of another person as a means of ministering to one's own ease or pleasure is doubtless the foundation of Slavery, and as old as human nature.

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