Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics on American Slavery

Author:Goodell, William.
Title:The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts.
Citation:New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853
Subdivision:Table of Contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Matter
Prelminary Chapter

PART I

The Relation of Master and Slave

I.Slave Ownership
II.Slave Traffic
III.Seizure of Slave Property for Debt
IV.Inheritance of Slave Property
V.Uses of Slave Property
VI.Slaves Can Possess Nothing
VII.Slaves Cannot Marry
VIII.Slaves Cannot Constitute Families
IX.Unlimited Power of Slaveowners
X.Labor of Slaves
XI.Food, Clothing, and Dwellings of Slaves
XII.Coerced Labor without Wages
XIII.Punishments of Slaves by the Owner and Hirer
XIV.Of Laws Concerning the Murder and Killing of Slaves
XV.Of the Delegated Power of Overseers
XVI.Of the Protection of Slave Property from Damage by Assaults from
Other Persons than Their Owners
XVII.Facts Illustrating the Kind and Degree of Protection
Extended to Slaves
XVIII.Fugitives from Slavery
XIX.The Slave Cannot Sue His Master
XX.No Powers of Self-Redemption or Change of Masters
XXI.The Relation Hereditary and Perpetual
XXII.Right to Education — Religious Liberty — Rights of Conscience
XXIII.Origin of the Relation and Its Subjects

PART II

Relation of the Slave to Society and to Civil Government

I.Of the Ground and Nature of the Slave’s Civil Condition
II. No Access to the Judiciary, and No Honest provision for Testing the Claims
of the Enslaved to Freedom
III.Rejection of Testimony of Slaves and Free Colored Persons
IV.Subjection to All White Persons
V.Penal Law against Slaves
VI.Education Prohibited
VII.Free Social Worship and Relgious Instruction Prohibited
VIII.Legislative, Judicial, and Constitutional Obstructions to Emancipation

PART III

I.Liberties of the Free People of Color
II.Liberties of the White People of the Slaveholding States
III.Liberties of the White People of the Non-Slaveholding States
Concluding Chapter

APPENDICES

A.Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850
B.Slavery among the Cherokees and Choctaws

BACK MATTER

List of Reported Cases Cited in This Volume
General Index
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Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics on American Slavery