Documentary History of Reconstruction Political Military Social Religious E
Documentary History of Reconstruction Political Military Social Religious E
Fleming Walter Lynwood
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I. African slavery as it heretofore ex- isted, having been terminated within this State by the Govern- ment of the United States, by force of arms, and its reestablish- ment being prohibited by the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in this State; and Africans and their descendants shall be pro- tected in their rights of... person and property by appropriate legislation; and shall have the right to contract and be con- tracted with; to sue and be sued; to acquire, hold, and transmit property; and all criminal prosecutions against them shall be conducted in the same manner as prosecutions for like offenses against the white race, and they shall be subject to like penalties. Sec. 2. Africans and their descendants shall not be pro- hibited, on account of their color or race, from testifying orally, as witnesses, in any case, civil or criminal, involving the right of injury to, or crime against, any of them in person or property, under the same rules of evidence that may be applicable to the white race; the credibility of their testimony to be determined 312 Documentary History of Reconstruction by the court or jury hearing the same ; and the legislature shall have power to authorize them to testify as witnesses in all other cases, under such regulations as may be described, as to facts hereafter occurring.
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