A Letter to the People of the United States Touching the Matter of Slavery
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Illegitimate children of female slaves ■were of course slaves forever, though the father was free. But for this alteration, many thousands of men now slaves would have been free.
Contrary to the old Common Law of England, but in obedience to the Roman code, the American slave, in law is regarded merely as a thing ; "doom- ed, " as Judge Ruffin, of North Carolina, sorroAv- fully declares, " to live without knowledge and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may ...reap the fruits. " In some of the slave States Trial by Jury is allowed to him in all capital cases ; sometimes Avith the concur- rence of a grand jury, sometimes without. Some- times he is allowed to challenge the jurors " for cause, " though not peremptorily. But in South Carolina, Virginia, and Louisiana, the slave is not allowed a jury trial, even when his life is in peril. In some others he has the protection of a jury when arraigned for inferior offences. But in every slave State he may be beaten to the extent of " thirty- nine lashes well laid on, " without the verdict of a jury, but by the decision of a body of justices of the peace, varying in number from two to five.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Illegitimate children of female slaves ■were of course slaves forever, though the father was free. But for this alteration, many thousands of men now slaves would have been free.
Contrary to the old Common Law of England, but in obedience to the Roman code, the American slave, in law is regarded merely as a thing ; "doom- ed, " as Judge Ruffin, of North Carolina, sorroAv- fully declares, " to live without knowledge and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may ...reap the fruits. " In some of the slave States Trial by Jury is allowed to him in all capital cases ; sometimes Avith the concur- rence of a grand jury, sometimes without. Some- times he is allowed to challenge the jurors " for cause, " though not peremptorily. But in South Carolina, Virginia, and Louisiana, the slave is not allowed a jury trial, even when his life is in peril. In some others he has the protection of a jury when arraigned for inferior offences. But in every slave State he may be beaten to the extent of " thirty- nine lashes well laid on, " without the verdict of a jury, but by the decision of a body of justices of the peace, varying in number from two to five.
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