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SOME INCONSISTENCIES OF THE ENGLISH LAW....
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Some African Years King Ago , Arrived , ...
" A the merica civilized and world one or , wi two th serai the - exce barbarous ption of countries the Confedera in Southern tes of
America , have come to this conclusion . Even the supporters -of slaver French , " colonisation nor in Eland shrink would from the most using servile the admirers ugly word of "ng
w t the houg hilst South ht t y ; slavery and unanimous Southern an honest on chivalry this or sub equitable jec openl t , i t institution does admi alteration no t t t seem . t t of But hey to
law f have em s inine words which occurred p , ronouns existed a noun to our , ' in here there the lawg and United is ivers a there st t rikin hat States , , and g wi th with the the ari masculine regard ty bet to ween slaves to the the a , tarried
and those which still exist in England with regard o m peculiar women It is . on force marrie . So d women long as that a woman the erican Eng remains lis law h law treated unmarried presses the , free the th
law coloured treat popula s her tion only ; th as at the is to Am say , it allowed them no rights of the Northern
and as ci in tizens all , the hut Southern did not enslave states them free . p In ersons many of colour were not ,
permi ualifica tted tion to while vote , even there was possessed universal , of suffrage consider for able white pro men perty ;
j q p need secondl uries rofessions t f y poin , th t , ey , and t t wer ou rial in t e the t not f peop South coincidence allowed le of they their to were enter be own tween not or colour practise p ermitted . En There any glish to of sit is the w no on
o with But regard we will to now women return an ( J to those the poor I have African just quoted king , . who , viewed t
mas from ter the reclaiming point of a husban is slave d , reclaiming does cer law tainl his y wife seem , and to have no th been as t a
very master unfairl shall y treated ose of . th The e er slave son and t , im which e of his declare slave s witho a ut pp fixed aint
an ha y s b ee ther n long comp since ensat abolished ion than a in small England ; legal but a m husban enance d may , still enforce the return of his wife to himno matter how great
ment her ob can jection be adduced be , unless , the indeed same , o proviso utrageous , personal it observed ill-treat may
l i na found where amon if g the laws ill ; -tr ( e thoug atment h a could dead be , letter pro ) ved of South the master ,
Carocould The , be Louisianian legal , ly gross fined code to thu the s amount defines slav of £ ery 100 : — Engli _, sh .
The " A master slave m is one sell who him is dispose in the power his perso of a n , _master his industry to whom , and he his belongs labour .
he can do nothing ay , possess , nothiiag , but what must belong to his master . " The English law thus defines a ' wife ' s position : —
authorities " The custod it was y of considered her person so far longs under to her his husband power that , and he by mi s g ht me give ancient her
Some Inconsistencies Of The English Law....
SOME INCONSISTENCIES OF THE ENGLISH LAW . 407
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/47/
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