Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America: Being Replies to Questions Transmitted by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade Throughout the World, Presented to the General Anti-slavery Convention Held in London, June 1840 |
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... Louisiana .. 173,296 Michigan 32 Missouri .. 55,396 Arkansas 12,946 Total 3,575 Total 2,770,958 The preceding census assigns a few slaves each to the states of Maine , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , and New York . This is a mistake ...
... Louisiana .. 173,296 Michigan 32 Missouri .. 55,396 Arkansas 12,946 Total 3,575 Total 2,770,958 The preceding census assigns a few slaves each to the states of Maine , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , and New York . This is a mistake ...
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... Louisiana 181 Missouri .. 18211 Arkansas 1796 32,013 3,417 361 13,584 44,535 339,979 80,107 535,7 4 141 603 4,555 681,904 45,600 17 264 13 12 851,823 250,307 1819 85,451 41,879 190,406 117.549 1,572 309,527 52,000 6 617 5 4 332 336 ...
... Louisiana 181 Missouri .. 18211 Arkansas 1796 32,013 3,417 361 13,584 44,535 339,979 80,107 535,7 4 141 603 4,555 681,904 45,600 17 264 13 12 851,823 250,307 1819 85,451 41,879 190,406 117.549 1,572 309,527 52,000 6 617 5 4 332 336 ...
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... LOUISIANA 1790 1800 1810 76,556 1820 153,407 76,851 100-3853 ) 1830 215,739 62,332 139,183 181.8055 40.6318 ) MISSOURI 1790 1800 1810 20,845 1820 66,586 1830 140,455 45,741 219-4339 ) 119,610 573.8067 110-9377 ) 73,869 ALABAMA ...
... LOUISIANA 1790 1800 1810 76,556 1820 153,407 76,851 100-3853 ) 1830 215,739 62,332 139,183 181.8055 40.6318 ) MISSOURI 1790 1800 1810 20,845 1820 66,586 1830 140,455 45,741 219-4339 ) 119,610 573.8067 110-9377 ) 73,869 ALABAMA ...
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... LOUISIANA ...... 1790 1800 1810 34,660 74,928 216.1800 1820 69,064 34,404 99.2614 1830 109,588 40,524 50.6760 MISSOURI 1790 1800 1810 3,011 1820 10,222 22,080 733-3112 1830 25,091 14,869 7,211 239.4885 145.4608 ALABAMA .. 1790 1800 1810 ...
... LOUISIANA ...... 1790 1800 1810 34,660 74,928 216.1800 1820 69,064 34,404 99.2614 1830 109,588 40,524 50.6760 MISSOURI 1790 1800 1810 3,011 1820 10,222 22,080 733-3112 1830 25,091 14,869 7,211 239.4885 145.4608 ALABAMA .. 1790 1800 1810 ...
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... QUESTION . To which of the states are slaves exported , and what is their number in each of those states ? The states into which slaves are imported are South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and Arkansas 12.
... QUESTION . To which of the states are slaves exported , and what is their number in each of those states ? The states into which slaves are imported are South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and Arkansas 12.
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Page 222 - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 258 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Page 211 - I warn the abolitionists," says South Carolina, "ignorant, infuriated barbarians as they are, that if chance shall throw any of them into our hands, he may expect a felon's death.".
Page 260 - That no law shall be passed to prevent the poor in the several Counties and townships within this State from an equal participation in the schools, academies, colleges, and universities within this State which are endowed, in whole or in part, from the revenue arising from donations made by the United States for the support of schools and colleges...
Page 194 - Neither of these is, to any extent worth naming, enjoyed by slaves, as a moment's consideration will satisfactorily show. The law, as it is here, does not prevent free access to the scriptures — but ignorance, the natural result of their condition, does. The Bible is before them, but it is to them a sealed book. " The light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not.
Page 169 - ... conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the...
Page 191 - ... corrected without trial, by receiving, on the bare back, twenty-five stripes with a whip, switch, or cow-skin.' " In South Carolina, slaves may not meet together for the purpose of ' religious worship ' before sunrise or after sunset, unless the majority of the meeting be composed of white persons, under the penalty of 'twenty lashes well laid on.
Page 245 - The President of the United Mexican States, to the inhabitants of the Republic — Be it known : That in the year 1829, being desirous of...
Page 25 - ... life. From the right bank, on the contrary, a confused hum is heard which proclaims the presence of industry; the fields are covered with abundant harvests, the elegance of the dwellings announces the taste and activity of the...