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Slavery over the years
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Virginia slave code
Law said that 20 lashes on any ''negro or other slave'' who chooses to carry a weapon or to ''depart from his master's ground without a cetificrate from his masters, mistress or overseer.'' -
South Carolina slave code
''Slaves could travel only with written permission of their master and were subject to the death penalty for homocide or for attemptingto raise an insurrection. -
Louisiana
''The slaves 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.'' -
3/5th's Compromise
This Compromise stated that slaves were to be counted as 3/5ths of the population of a state, however, they were taxed in the same manner. -
The Northwest Territorial Government
"There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the
punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted:
Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully
claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to
the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid." -
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
"The Congress passed on February 12, 1793 16 a fugitive slave act to carry out this provision of the Constitution. The act provided a means by which owners could secure their slave property by appearing in the federal or state courts and demanding the return of a runaway. The bill also prescribed punishment for anyone who hindered this act." -
Alabama, section 31
''Any person or persons who attermpt 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.''
