Slavery in Pennsylvania
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LEGAL STATUS OF THE SLAVE 25 of the application of this doctrine to the offspring of a negro and a white person was that mulattoes were divided into two classes. Some were servants for a term of years ; the others formed a third class of slaves.
In the second place perpetual service gave to slave property more of the character of a thing, than was the case when the time of service was limited. The service of both servants and slaves was a thing, which might be bought, sold, transferred as a cha...ttel, inherited and be queathed by will ; but in the case of a slave, the service being perpetual, the idea of the service as a thing tended . To merge into the idea of the slave himself as a thing. The law did not attempt to carry this principle very far. It never, as in Virginia, declared the slave real estate. In Pennsylvania he was emphatically both person and thing, with the conception of personality somewhat pre dominating. 24 Yet there was felt to be a decided dif ference between the slave and the servant, and this, to gether with the desire to regulate the slave as a negro distinguished from a white man, was the cause of the distinctive laws of the second period.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
LEGAL STATUS OF THE SLAVE 25 of the application of this doctrine to the offspring of a negro and a white person was that mulattoes were divided into two classes. Some were servants for a term of years ; the others formed a third class of slaves.
In the second place perpetual service gave to slave property more of the character of a thing, than was the case when the time of service was limited. The service of both servants and slaves was a thing, which might be bought, sold, transferred as a cha...ttel, inherited and be queathed by will ; but in the case of a slave, the service being perpetual, the idea of the service as a thing tended . To merge into the idea of the slave himself as a thing. The law did not attempt to carry this principle very far. It never, as in Virginia, declared the slave real estate. In Pennsylvania he was emphatically both person and thing, with the conception of personality somewhat pre dominating. 24 Yet there was felt to be a decided dif ference between the slave and the servant, and this, to gether with the desire to regulate the slave as a negro distinguished from a white man, was the cause of the distinctive laws of the second period.
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