Speech of Col Curtis M Jacobs On the Free Colored Population of Maryland Del
Speech of Col Curtis M Jacobs On the Free Colored Population of Maryland Del
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3d, says : That it shall not be lawful for any person by verbal order, or last will and testament, or by any other instrument of writing, to give or grant freedom to any 24 slaves ; and that all sucli bequest or grants of freedom sliali be void and of no effect.
Tims it is seen, that unconditional prohibition to all eman- cipation was the policy of tliis State np to the passage of the act of 1796. That act granted the right to emancipate, "not to foster emancipation, and thereby^ as far as prac...ticable, to put an end to slavery, but it was to enlarge the privileges of masters, and to give them an authority to dispose of their slaves in a way which, otherwise, tliey did not possess" — subject to the limitations and restrictions imposed in the act itself The Court very properly says that " the legislature having the authority to deprive slaveholders of all power to make testamentary bequests of their negroes, may grant to them the right to do so, upon such terms as in its justice and wis- dom it may see fit to prescribe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
3d, says : That it shall not be lawful for any person by verbal order, or last will and testament, or by any other instrument of writing, to give or grant freedom to any 24 slaves ; and that all sucli bequest or grants of freedom sliali be void and of no effect.
Tims it is seen, that unconditional prohibition to all eman- cipation was the policy of tliis State np to the passage of the act of 1796. That act granted the right to emancipate, "not to foster emancipation, and thereby^ as far as prac...ticable, to put an end to slavery, but it was to enlarge the privileges of masters, and to give them an authority to dispose of their slaves in a way which, otherwise, tliey did not possess" — subject to the limitations and restrictions imposed in the act itself The Court very properly says that " the legislature having the authority to deprive slaveholders of all power to make testamentary bequests of their negroes, may grant to them the right to do so, upon such terms as in its justice and wis- dom it may see fit to prescribe.
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