Our Duties to the Slave a Sermon Preached Before the Original Congregational Ch
Our Duties to the Slave a Sermon Preached Before the Original Congregational Ch
Horace James
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Step by step the slaveholders have advanced, just so fast as freemen could be wheedled or threatened into retreat. One of the earliest measures, as far back as 1790, was an attempt to oppress and degrade free blacks. They were by law excluded, if aliens, from becoming American citizens ; were not suffered to belong to the army, or participate in the national defence ; and, subsequently, were prohibited from carrying any United States mail, or driving any mail carriage. No matter how vile, intem...perate and abandoned, a driver of the mail coach is, so he be white. Such is the language of this law. But if his complexion be sallow, and his hair a little curly, let his talents and character be that of a Toussaint, he may not guide a horse upon a mail route, under a penalty of fifty dollars. The next step was the abolition of trial by jury in the case of alleged fugitives from one state into another. Provision had been made in the constitution for the surrender of persons held to service in one state, escaping hi to another, when claimed by the party to whom * In 1836, Gov.
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