Proceedings of the Rhode Island Anti Slavery Convention Held in Providence On
Proceedings of the Rhode Island Anti Slavery Convention Held in Providence On
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V. Chiip. || Rev. Xviii. IS \ Prifstl^y. Declaration and Expose. 21 •' Goods they are, " says the civil code, " and goods shall they be es- teemed''* — " A slave is one who is in the power oi his master to whom he belongs"! — " The cardinal principle of Slavery tliat the Slave is not to be ranked among sentient beings, but among things, as an article of property, a chattel personal, obtains as undoubted law in all the American Slave States"! — " Slaves shall be deemed sold, taken, and reputed t...o be chat- tels personal in the hands of their owners, and possessors, their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions and pur-poses what- soei'cr. ''|| " This dominion of the master is as unlimited as that which is tolerated by the laws of any civilized community in relation to brute ani- mals, to ' quadrupeds, ' to use the words of tlie civil la\v. ''§ Such is the fundamental principle of the American Slave Code. With a horrible self-consistency this principle is carried out, in all the details of slave legislation.
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