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. —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 —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 Baltimore Advertiser, (Testimony), 142 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 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 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 Choules, Rev. J. O., (Testimony), 133 Cherokee slave laws, 417 Clarke, Judge, 192 Clay, Henry, on —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 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 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 —“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 —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 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 —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 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 —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 Hampton, Gen. Wade, feeding slaves, cotton seed, 141-2, 218 Harboring fugitives, 232-3, 236 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 —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 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 —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 Marriage —of slaves abrogated, 105, &c. —of whites restricted, 376, &c. Martinique, comparative lenity shown to slaves, 45 —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 —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 —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. —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 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 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. —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 Obstructions to emancipation, 275, 338 &c. “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 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 —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 “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 —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. |
Dinsmore Documentation presents Classics on American Slavery