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:General Index
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GENERAL INDEX

Note: While this index is based on the index found in the original text, it has been extensively edited for errors and style.

Advertisements for slaves

—sold for distribution, 75

—wanted by dealers, 54

—for sale by dealers, 54-5

—taken, and for sale for debt, 66-7

—acclimated,” for sale, 81-2

—“breeder” for sale, 84

—“damaged” wanted, 87

—fugitives in search of their families, 119

—Reward for evidence to convict a mother of the crime of “harboring” her son, 119

—Of a wife in search of her husband, 119

—Reward offered for killing a slave for running off with his wife, 120

—Describing fugitives scarred, branded, cropped, shot, &c., 219-20

—“Negro dogs” and slave hunting, 236-7

—“White” slaves, 284-5

Agricultural societies, Southern, (testimony of) 81

Alabama

—slaves ill clothed, 146

—legalized slave discipline, 165

—laws vs. harboring fugitives, 233

—mode of testing claims to freedom, 299

—laws vs. preaching, 322

—laws vs. emancipation, 341-3

Alarm at negroes reading, 336

Alexandria, (D. C.) coroner’s inquest, 181

Allan, Rev. William. T., (Testimony), 39, 148, 312

American Bible Society and slave families, 115

American Colonization Society. See Colonization Society

Ameliorations impracticable, 293

Ancient slavery, “peculium”, 96

An aunt in Court, claiming nieces as slaves of other nieces, 241-2

Appendix A, Fugitive Slave Bill, 409

Appendix B, Cherokees and Choctaws, 417

Archer, Judge, 345

Avery, George A., (Testimony), 148, 214, 216

Badger, Judge, 317

Baltimore Advertiser, (Testimony), 142

Baptism of slaves, 253, 332

Battery on a slave, 32, &c., 168-9, 192

Berry, Mr. (Virginia), Testimony, 323

Betting on a negro’s life, in a fit, 40

Bibb, Judge, 103

Bible prohibited, 321, 324

Bible Societies do not supply slaves, 323

Birney, James G., (Testimony), 57

Blackwell, Samuel, (Testimony), 80

Bliss, Philemon, (Testimony), 143-4

Boudinot, Tobins, (Testimony), 141

Bouldin, Hon. T. T., (Testimony), 145

Bourne, Rev. George, (Testimony), 111, 141

Boyle, Judge, 275

Branding slaves, 219-20

Breckenridge, Dr. R. J., (Testimony), 368

Breckenbrough, Judge, 194

“Breeders,” 30, 55, 84-5

Brodnax, Mr., (Virginia) 367

Broughum, Lord, “No property in man,” 270

Buchanan, Dr. Geo., (Testimony), 145, 222

Butler, Gov., (South Carolina) 210

Burning and beheading

—a slave, 118

—a free negro, 310

Calhoun, John C., (Testimony), 285

Carey, Matthew, (Testimony), 211

Catechisms “incendiary,” 336

Caulkins, Nehemiah, (Testimony), 142-3

Channing, Dr. William E., (Testimony), 148

Charles C., 267

Charleston, (S. C). Bap. Asso. 37-8, 40

Observer, Testimony, 335

Chattel principle, 23, 29

Choules, Rev. J. O., (Testimony), 133

Cherokee slave laws, 417

Clarke, Judge, 192

Clay, Henry, on

—slave property, 34, 349

—slave traffic, 48, 55

—slave breeding, 84

—overtasking, 132

—slaves “fat and sleek,” 152

—perpetuity of slavery, 249, 272

—future slavery of whites, 283

Choctaw slave laws, 420

Clay, Thomas, (Testimony), 141-3

Claims to freedom, 295

Clothing of slaves, 145, &c.

Code Noir, its comparative mildness, 44-5, 68, 75

Colcock, Judge, 189, 190

Colonial slavery, 200, &c.

Colonization Society vs. manumission on soil, 351

—origin and objects of 364

—meetings, effects of, 360

—compusion, 267

—Maryland Society, 369-70

—New York State Auxiliary, 365

—American, (Testimony of), 222

Congress, United States, vs. slaves’

—personality, 106

—right of petition, 37

—Fugitive Slave Bill, 168, 234, 409

Color

—defined, 277

—presumptive of slavery, 276-7, 295

Colored people, see Free People of Color.

Colored seamen imprisoned, 362

Colored testimony excluded, 300, &c.

Connecticut, slave marriage, 106

Constitutions (state) vs. Abolition, 350

Contracts of master and a slave void, 346, &c.

Cornelius, Rev. Elias, (Testimony), 148

Cost, per annum, of slaves’ support, 153

Cousins in Court, claiming cousins as slaves, 241

Cranch, Judge, (Testimony), 360; petition, 56

Crandall, Prudence, 366

Craziness or idiocy of slave property sold and warranted, 32

Crenshaw, Judge, 293

Criminal prosecutions to defend slave property, 192, 204

Cropping ears, legal, 220

Cruelty

—certain kinds, authorized, 159

—philosophy of, 223-4

Daggett, Judge, 366

Damaged slaves, uses of, 86-7

Damages, to slave property, 201, &c.

Dayton, Col. (Member of Congress, South Carolina) 36

Dead or alive” to be returned, 120

Death from

—nakedness, 145

—starvation, 141, 145

—“moderate correction,” 180

Delegated power of overseers, 97, &c., 204

Delaware, laws to prevent escapes, 229

Deming, Dr., (testimony), 79

Derbigny, Judge, 280

Dew, Prof., (Testimony), 84

District of Columbia

—slave-trade, 57

—slaves stay not traffic, 100

—free negroes sold, 227

—killing authorized, 230-1

Distribution of slave estates, 74-5

Dorsey, Judge, 345

Dower of widows in slaves, 71-2, 346

Drunkenness of slave property sold and warranted, 31

Dwellings of slaves described, 147

Earl, Judge, 345

Education

—slaves no right to, 251

—prohibited, 319

Edwards, Dr. Jonathan, (Testimony), 141, 143, 221; accounted slaveholding men-stealing, 271

Erwin, Mr., (Alabama) slave-trader, 59

Facts, treatment of slaves, 209, &c.

Family relation, slaves, 113, &c.

Fine for killing a negro, 191

Fisher, Mr., (Virginia), Testimony, 368

Florida

—clothing of slaves, 146

—laws to prevent escapes, 229

Florida Slaveholder,” (Testimony), 370; his liberties, 376

Food, clothing, shelter, 135, etc.

Free people of color sold for jail fees, 227; enslaved, 274, 352; liberties of, 355, &c.

Free worship forbidden, 326

French slavery, milder type, 45

Fugitive slave, 225, &c., 227

Fugitive Slave Bill (of 1850), 283-4, 409

Furman, Rev. Dr., sale of theological books and negroes, 38

Gadsden, T. N., Esq., slave auctioneer, 60

Georgetown, (D. C.) ordinance, 358

Georgia, Presbyterian Synod, (Testimony), 111

—slaves forbidden to traffic, 98

—slaves’ labor, 130

—food, 136

—clothing, 145

—murder, 182-3

—“moderate correction,” 183

—slave without “pass,” 228

—harboring, 232

—slavery perpetual and hereditary, 249

—origin, 260

—free negroes enslaved, 276

—claims to freedom, 297-8

—punished if fails to prove freedom, 297

—death to strike white person, 305

—penal laws vs. slaves, 315

—education prohibited, 319-22

—no free worship, 328

vs. emancipation, 341, 342

—whites fined for teaching, 359

—restriction on right of hiring houses, 361

—quarantine of freedom, 363

—no freedom of speech or of the press, 383

Gholson, Mr., (Virginia) 30-1, 36, 55, 82, 84, 272

Gildersleeve, W. C., (Testimony), 142, 144

Gillmore, Mary, white, Irish, enslaved, 285

Girls, mulatto, high price, 85-6

Grand Jury of Cheraw, (South Carolina) Testimony, 211

Greenville (South Carolina) Mountaineer, (Testimony), 336

Grimke, Sarah M., (Testimony), 115, 148, 154, 256

Ground of slave’s civil condition, 289

Hall, Judge, 193, 317

Hampton, Gen. Wade, feeding slaves, cotton seed, 141-2, 218

Harboring fugitives, 232-3, 236

Hawkins, Sir John, 258, 271

Hawley, Rev. Francis, (Testimony), 213

Hayne, Gov. R. Y., purchased a man’s wife and children, 119

Hebrew servitude, 292

Hereditary and perpetual slavery, 248

Hill, John W., (Testimony), 214-15

History of N. C., (Testimony), 132

Hitchcock, Judge H., (Alabama) concerned in slave-trade, 59, 175

Home Mission, Methodist, put down, 336-7

Honesty of slave property sold and warranted, 32

House slaves, their condition, 111, 117, 200

Humanity punished more than cruelty, 163

Hunger of slaves, 141

Hunting slaves, 223

Huntsman, Hon. Adam, 386

Hymn books, incendiary, 324

Ill treatment, no legal remedy for, 125, 242-3

Illegal importation of slaves, 260, &c.

Imprisonment of slaves by owner, 166-7

Increase of slaves, 70, 72

—belong to ulterior legatee, 72

—may be sold by Orphans’ Court, 72

—subject to mortgage, 64-5

Indians enslaved, 28, 267-8, 282, 296

Indiana excludes colored witnesses, 359

Infants cannot be emancipated, (Maryland), 349

Inheritance of slave property, 69

Intermarriage with slaves, 278

Iron collars, according to law, 163

Jackson, Gen. Andrew, a slave-trader, 60

Jamaica (West Indies), mixed breed free, 249

Jefferson, Thomas, 34, 38, 126-7, 218; his will, 276, 375; his daughter sold, 85

Johnson, Col. Richard M., 378-9

Johnson, Judge, 94, 149, 264

Jones, Rev. C. C., or George, (Testimony), 335

Judiciary perverted, 207

Judson, A. T., 336

Jury trial, why denied, 261

Kentucky: slaves real estate, 24

—but sold as chattels, 24

—Presbyterian Synod, (Testimony), 53, 55, 110, 232, 333

—slaves may not traffic, 98

—no hire out, 103

—nor carry weapons, 229

—free colored degraded, 300: laws vs. slaves, 342-5

—hopeless ignorance, 323-4

—laws vs. emancipation, 343

Kidnapping, 279

Knowledge, incendiary, 337

Labor of slaves, 78, 128, &c., 150, &c.

Ladd, William, (Testimony), 142, 146

Lady advertising a fugitive “wife” in search of her “husband,119

Leftwich, William, (Testimony), 144, 146

Legality of slavery, 19, 262, &c.

Legislation, none creating slavery, 261. &c.

Lewis, Lillburn, his barbarity, 88

Lexington (Kentucky) Luminary, (Testimony), 111

Liberty of

—free people of color, 353

—of whites at the South, 372, &c.

—of whites at the North, 389

License to marry emancipates, 106

Licentiousness produced by slavery, 111

Life of slave

—in his owner’s hands, 125

—taken without jury, 314

Littleton, Lord, 20, 401-2

Louisiana

—property tenure of slaves, 23

—held as real estate, 24

—warranty of slaves, 31

—ameliorated code, 46

—allows a peculium, 90

—slave families, 114

—law of slaves’ labor, 130

—food, clothing, &c., 135

—of punishments, 161

—iron collars authorized, 163

—overseers authority, 198

—damages to slave property, 203

—slaves on horseback, 229

—relief from ill treatment, 246

—penal laws vs. slaves, 314-15

vs. free speech and press, 322

—religious privileges of slaves, 323

vs. emancipation, 243-4

—subjection of free blacks to whites, 357

Lowry, Nancy, (Testimony), 213

Lynch Committee, (Mo.) 316

Madison, James, sister of, Testimony, 111

Madison, James, denied the right of property in man, 270

Maltby, S. E., (Testimony), 146

Mansfield, Lord, 259, 270

Marriage

—of slaves abrogated, 105, &c.

—of whites restricted, 376, &c.

Martinique, comparative lenity shown to slaves, 45

Martin, Judge, 262, 248

Maryland

—chattel tenure, 25

—issue, of female slaves, 30

—bequests to slaves void, 91

—slaves may not traffic, 99

—naked and starved, 145

—damages to slave property, 202

—whites and blacks required to have “asses,” 227-8

—slaves rambling or riding, 229

—killing slaves authorized, 230

—Slavery hereditary and perpetual, 248

—enslaving white women and their children, 273

—emancipated negroes reë

—slaved, 275, 359

—trial of claims to freedom, 298

—cropping free blacks, 306

—penal laws vs. slaves, 213-16

—laws of emancipation, 343

—religious privileges of slaves, 322

Mason, Mr., (Virginia), 261

Massachusetts, submission to slave law, 363

Matthews, Judge, (Louisiana), 107, 188, 206, 264, 293

Meade, Bishop, (testimony), 334

Merciful safety-valve,” 133-4

Methodist Episcopal Church

—exclusion of colored witnesses, 159

—class imprisoned, 226

—missions suppressed, 336, 383

Miner, Mr., (Member of Congress) (Testimony), 361

Ministry for slaves, 334

Missionary Society put down, 336

Mississippi

—slave importation, 48

—constitutional power of Legislature to relieve ill-treated slaves, not exercised, 168, 264

—enslaves free negroes, 276

—penal laws vs. slaves, 312-13

—free worship forbidden, 331

—laws vs. emancipation, 341-3

—expulsion of free colored people, 356

—no freedom of speech or of the press, 385.

Missouri

—slaves may not traffic, 99

—laws concerning cruelty, 165, &c.

—insiders may imprison slaves, 166-7

—slaves forbidden weapons, 229

—testing claims to freedom, 299

—Lynch law, burning free negro, 316

—no freedom of speech or of the press, 386

Mixed race, 360, &c.

Moderate correction,” death under, 180

Mortgage of slaves, 24, 63-4

Mosely, Rev. Mr., (Connecticut) sale of wife from husband, 114

Mother (free) cannot sue for relief of a slave daughter from ill treatment, 125

Moulton, Horace, (testimony), 142-3

Municipal law, slavery under, 262, &c.

Murders of slaves

—law of, 177, &c.

—frequency of, 210

—instances of, 210-12, &c.

—of a slave child, 88

—impunity of white murderers, 88, 210

—doubts of judges whether the murder of a slave be indictable, 192, 194

—murders punished to protect slave property, 192-3

—virtually commuted for a verdict for pecuniary damages, 208

Negro dogs” (for slave hunting) advertised, 336-7

Negro pew, 370

Negro’s head” advertised, 39

New Jersey, Indians enslaved 28, 266

New Orleans Argus, (Testimony), 81

New Orleans Bee, (Testimony), 285

New Orleans Picayune, (Testimony), 383

New Orleans Bible Society disclaims the intention of giving Bibles to slaves, 383

Nieces suing their aunt for their freedom, 241-2

O’Niell, Judge, 168

Niles’ Register, (Testimony), 285

No access to judiciary, 295, &c.

No appeal of a slave from his roaster, 126

No prosecution for battery on a slave, 171

No right of redemption from slavery, 245

No statutes creating slavery, 258, 268, &c.

North Carolina

—law of slave legacies, 69, 70

—“slaves cannot take by descent,” &c., 91

—may not traffic, 98-9

—law of food, clothing, &c., 136

—of killing slaves, 180, 230-1

—outlawry of, 180

—damages to slave property, 203

—slaves without pass, 229

—enslaving free colored persons, 276

—no freedom of speech or of the press, 385

—freedom quarantined, 363

—penal laws vs. slaves, 312-13-14

—education prohibited, 321

—Bibles forbidden, 324

—laws vs. emancipation, 341

—preaching forbidden, 358

—free colored people legally plundered, 359

—expatriation or reënslavement, 361

North Carolina Baptist Convention, (Testimony), 336

Obsolete, slave laws not, 20

Obstructions to emancipation, 275, 338 &c.

Ohio, black law, 359

Oral instruction,” 324-5, 336

Origin of the “legal relation,” 258

Ottley, Chief Justice, 302

Ouachita (Louisiana) Register, (Testimony), 237

Outlawry of slaves, 180

Overseers

—their power, 197

—their character, 200

Parrish, John, (Testimony), 145

Patrols, regulation of, 329

Paxton, Mr. (Testimony), 285

Peculium of slaves, 26, 90

Peg, slave, damaged, 52

Penal laws vs. slaves, 309, &c.

Persecution for religion, 256, 282

Pickens, Mr., (South Carolina) 37

Piety of slaves advertised for sale, 42

Pinckney, Hon. H. L., sale of a man’s wife and children, 119

Pinckney and Ford, (Testimony), 211

Pinckney, William, (Testimony), 221

Pitt, William, 259

Portuguese slavery, milder type of, 45

Powell, Eleazer, (Testimony), 143

Presbyterian Church

—General Assembly, funds loaned and used in slave-trade, 62

—definition of man-stealing, 271

—Synod of Kentucky, (Testimony), 53, 55, 110, 222, 333

—Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, (Testimony), 111, 334

“Prescription” no valid foundation for slaveholding, 266-7

Priestley, Dr., maxim of, 17

Property in a slave adjudged paramount to the slave’s right to life, 317-18

Protection of slaves in fact, 209, &c.

Punishment of slaves by masters, 155, &c.

Quakers of North Carolina, emancipation by, 352

Quarantine of freedom, 363

Randolph, John

—(Testimony), 217

—will of, 146

Randolph, Thomas J., (Testimony), 56

Rankin, Rev. John, (Testimony), 141, 145

Rape of female slave, no protection against, 86

Reed, Rev. Dr., (Testimony), 80

Relation of slave to Society, 287

Religious liberty of slaves, 251, &c., 326, &c.

Religious worship prohibited, 326

Renshaw, Rev. S. C., (Testimony), 143, 146

Revolutionary service of slave, bounty belongs to his master, 93-4

Roane, Judge, 296

Robinson, Judge, (Kentucky) 71

Roman Civil Law, 25-6, 156, 264

Ruflin, Judge, (of North Carolina) 32, 79, 126, 154, 156, 165, 170, 317

Sabbath-schools for slaves, 324

Sale of slaves, 23, 25, 54, 66-7

Salford, Judge, 91

Sapington, L., (Testimony), 118, 127

Savery, William, (Testimony), 145

Savannah (Georgia) City Ordinance vs.Schools, 321

Savannah River Baptist Association vs. marriage, 109, 127, 258

Schools broken up, 320 &c., 366

Seizure of slaves for debt, 63

Self-defense not allowed, 306-7

Separation of families, 53; exceptions to this, 73

Severity not caused by abolitionists, 20

Sharp, Granville, 259

Sheriffs obey orders of slaveholders, 167

Slaves

—not considered men, 35-7

—no right of petition, 37

—devisable, like other chattels, 72; can own nothing, 89 &c.

—can make no contract, 93

—can be agents for their masters, 94-5

—no crime to gamble with them, 95

—laws forbidding them to hold property, 96

—map not traffic, 95-7

—nor hire out, 98

—nor marry, 105

—nor constitute families, 113

—nor control their children, 113-7, 198

—nor appeal from master, 126

—cost of their support, 153

—aged sent out to beg, 153-4

—punished at will, 155

—cannot testify, 159: imprisoned by owners, 166-7

—battery of them, by owners, no breach of the peace, 166

—not even by shooting, 170

—laws concerning murder of, 177

—outlawry, of, 180

—controlled by overseers and by children, 198, how protected, as property, 201-7

—branded, cropped, shot, 219-20, 231

—cannot sue master, 239

—no right of redemption, 245

—nor of education, 251

—nor of religion, 251

—whipped to death for religion, 256

—follow condition of slave mother, 273-4

—civil condition, 289

—no access to judiciary, 295

—whipped by law for failing to sustain suit for freedom, 297

—subjection to all white persons, 305

—self-defense not allowed to colored persons, 306-7

—penal laws vs. slaves, 309

—slave hunts, 231-4.

Slaveholders

—may not allow slaves to traffic or hold property, 97, &c.

—authority of, 162

—rights not to be questioned in Courts, 173

—self-interest does not protect the slave, 195

—not bound to show title to a slave claiming freedom, 241-2

—do not enjoy civil and religious liberty, 372, &c.

Smith, Dr. A. G., (Testimony), 143

Smylie, Rev. James, (Testimony.) 50, 58

Smythe, Gen. Alexander, (Testimony), 132, 142

Somerset, James, (slave) case, 253

South Carolina: chattel tenure, 23

—warranty of slaves, 31-2

—slaves can own nothing, 91

—may not traffic, 97

—law of labor, 128-9

—or food and clothing, 137

—laws respecting cruelty, 159, 173, 301

—damages to slave property, 202-3

—slaves without pass, 228-9

—enticing slaves, 232

—perpetuity of slavery, 248

—imprisonment of colored seamen, 362

—laws vs. emancipation, 341

—testing claims to freedom, 297

—owner exculpated by oath, 301

—death for striking white person, 305-6

—penal laws vs. slaves, 312-15

—education prohibited, 319, &c., 329

—Methodist Missions suppressed, 336

Spanish slavery, milder type of, 45, 101, 131, 247, 292, 250, 344

Spiritual despotism, 124-5, 251, &c.

Statu liber, no relief for ill treatment of, 125

Stewart, Mr., (Illinois), Testimony, 58

Stone, A. A., (Testimony), 133, 141

Story’s “Conduct of Laws,” 262

Subjects of slavery, 251, &c.

Sugar plantations “use up” slaves, 80

Summers, Mr. (Virginia) 35

Swain, William and Moses, (Testimony), 141

Taylor, Judge, 192

Tennessee

—slaves may not traffic, 98

—ill clothed, 145

—law on killing slaves, 182, and see North Carolina 180

—slaves without pass, 229

—penal laws vs. slaves, 312-15

—laws vs. emancipation, 342-3

—expatriation laws, 356

Testimony excluded, 159, 300, &c.

Thome, Rev. James A., (Testimony), 223

Torrey, Dr., (Testimony), 285

Traffic in slaves, 44, &c.

Treatment of sick, infirm, and aged, 147-9

Tucker, Judge, (Testimony), 237-8

Turner, L., (Testimony), 38, 213

Turpin, Mr., (Missionary), 336, 383

Unlawful assemblies,” 204-5

Unlimited power, 27, 122

Unusual punishments” prohibited, 161, &c.

—defined, 162, &c.

Used up” in five to eight years, 133-4

Uses of slave property, 77, &.c.

Vanderpool, Hon. Mr., 36

Verbal instruction” for slaves, 324, 336

Violence to female chastity, 220

Virginia

—slaves chattels, 24

—may not traffic, 98

—sold for trading, 101

—clothing of slaves, 145-6

—damages to slave property, 203-4

—weapons forbidden, 229

—killing lawfully, 231

—“literary fund,” from sale of emancipated negroes, 275-6

—testing claims to freedom, 298

—attorneys fined for pleading, if suit fails, 298

—free colored persons striking white persons, 306

—penal laws vs. slaves, 313-15

—education prohibited, 320

—religious worship forbidden, 330-1

—emancipation laws, 341-3

—no freedom of speech or or the press, 383

Wages, slaves receive none, 150

Wall, Col., (Kentucky), senator and slave dealer, 59, 60

Warranty of slaves sold, 31-2

Washington City Corporation, 227

Waugh, Bishop, 369

Weld, Angelina Grimke, (Testimony), 93, 116, 127, 144

West Indies, (British) slavery was illegal, 270

Western Medical Reformer, (Testimony), 143

Western Luminary, (Testimony), 335

Westgate, G. W., (Testimony) 146

—free colored people less oppressed, 372

Wesley, John, on “men-stealers,” 271

Wheeler’s criticism on Stroud examined, 184-5

White men on plantations required, 302

White persons enslaved, 282

White poor supported by colored poor, 99

White women marrying slaves, 273

Whitefield, Rev. George, (Testimony), 131, 141, 221

Wife no right to manumit, 346

Wills, of personal estates, embrace slaves, 70

—may bequeath unborn slaves, and separate the future “increase”

—from the mother, 70

—for emancipation, set aside, 344-5, &c.


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