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laws passed by congress about slaves
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2 Virginia slave codes
All servants imported and brought into the Country...who were not Christians in their native Country...shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion...shall be held to be real estate." 2If any slave resists his master...correcting such a slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction...the master shall be free of all punishment...as if such accident never happened." -
South Carolina save code
"Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no master, mistress, overseer, or other person whatsoever, the care and charge of any negro or slave, shall give their negroes and other slaves leave...to go out of their plantations.... Every slave here after out of his master's plantation, without a ticket, or leave in writing, from his master...shall be whipped...." -
Louisiana slave code
The slave who, hits his mistress, or the husband of his mistress, or their children, shall have produce the shedding of blood in the face, shall suffer capital punishment -
Three-Fifths Compromise
which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. -
Another fugitive slave law act
(Provided that any person who should harbor or conceal a fugitive after notice that he was a fugitive from labor should forfeit and pay to the claimant the sum of $500, to be recovered by action of debt, saving also to the claimant his right of action for any damages sustained) -
slave trade act
(the forfeiture attaches, where the original voyage is commenced in the United States, whether the vessel belong to citizens or foreigners, and whether the act is done suo jure, or by an agent, for the benefit of another person who is not a citizen or resident of the United States.) -
The Missouri Compromise Act.,
Provision prohibiting the holding and ownership of slaves in the territory of the United States north of the line -
Alabama slave code
Alabama, 1833, section 31 - "Any person or persons who attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars." Alabama, 1833, section 32 - "Any free person of color who shall write for any slave a pass or free paper, on conviction thereof, shall receive for every such offense, thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, and lea -
fugitive slave act
This law was passed during the compromise of eighteen fifty .It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters. and because of this act the Compromise of 1850 was made possible -
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise
Where a portion of slaves purchased were lost because of defect in vendor's title, and a process of garnishment had been served upon purchaser by creditors of vendor who had absconded in insolvent circumstances, purchasers, against whom judgment had been rendered in garnishment proceeding, were entitled to value of the slaves and the costs incurred in suit in connection with loss of slaves).
