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#08 SOME IIN€QNSiSTE*rCIES O03 1 )^H^IEK...
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Some African Years King Ago , Arrived , ...
_^ correction . The lower rank of people still exert their ancient _^ privileges , -and ! the '" courts freeholds of law of permit which a the husban wife d is to possessed restrain a at wife her marriage of herliberty or afterwards . - ° . ° ,,
t are o the vested profits in , husband and has'th and e sole wife m . anagement During their . * lives •* , ¦¦ * She husband is able -to ent -make itled h disposition usband must of her concur real in esta it . te As by to simp the alienation le ideed ; of but her to lands make b devise valid , _^ she the y
t which is altogether o she fit , is possessed incompetent , the . t husband durin As to their terms takes joint of them years lives , and , o is ot enti her t dispose led chatt els t onl re t , hem y to of
they durin pr are g the his marriage . managemen Personal ; they chattels can be of liers taken belong fof his absolutel debts , , and y to if him lie . survive ¦* ; * tor _•**" _^
as Thus compared far , the with advantage the slave is . not Another much poin on the t of side similarity of the may wife
"be considered : — they " Slaves are not cannot recognised be a part in fact y in as persons civil b suit ylaw , and . " can make no contracts ;
Now married women in England labour under very similar disabilities . Blackstone
saysher husband She is incap . and able such of acts contracting are void , . or She of doing cannot any bring acts any to bind action herself _atilaw : or
for an injury , to her person or property , except with her husband ' s concurrence . " , There last remains to be considered the laws which in
America allow the children of slaves to be parted from them at the will of their masters , and recognise no ri land ght of the
slaveparents in them . A like clause exists in Eng . over " With the child respect in the to the father mother ' s lifetime , " says at B leas lacks t as tone agains , " t t he no father legal _l and power the
father may by his will appoint another , guardian to his children . " acording Further to , a the woman legal cannot hrase inherit " She is prop no erty kin from to it . her " children ; -
Now I do not mean p to argue , from this that the women in . Eng Domesti land c are affection as badl steps y off in as and the slaves mitigates in the the United rigour States of the .
law the , Southern as it was States once said . But to do the , in province the " patriarchal of law is not system to control " . of
must the good repeat , but the to restrain laws of those England inclined do not to do evil with ; and regard this we to
married women . In cases where mutual affection does not auth exist ori , the ty , exercise husband very may much , without the ri overstepp ghts of a ing slaveholder the bounds . We of
children her have own seen if person alread her husband , y nor that any a will married cl s aim to the to woman contrary the guardianshi has . no Her control property p of over her is
keep is not frequentl , and the , cannot cap y ital evaded be of under her by property m her arriage own from settlements control her husband ; for , thoug yet _'s these hands h the onl , law by y
depriving her of all power of disposing of it ; and as soon a _&
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/48/
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