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*Slaves were prohibited from possesing weapons.
*Slaves were prohibited from leaving their owner's plantation, without permission.
*Slaves were prohibited from lifting a ahand against a white person, even i n self-defense.
* A runaway slave refusing to surrender could be killed without penalty. -
"If any slave resists his master, correcting such a slave, and shall happen to be killed in such direction..."
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" The slave who, having struck his master, his mistress, or the husband of his mistress, or their children, shall have produced a bruise, or the shedding of blood in the face, shall suffer capital punishment."
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This is a map representing the boundaries of free states and slave states.
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In order to find out how many there were in the population for representation, slaves were only counted as 3/5s of a person because the northern states thought it was unfair if they had more representatives from the populaton
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The constitution states that they would have to wait until 1808( in 20 years) before they can make a law stating that it is illegal to import any more slaves.
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All states sbove this line had either abolished slavery for good or had passed laws for ending the slavery of African-Americans.
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"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 $250, nor more than $500.
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This amendment would permanety end the slavery through out the United States and would also free the remainding Native Americans.
