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AND OF THE GREAT POWER THAT HOLDS THEM. ...
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There Is No Doubt That In The Gig-Antic ...
We have said that many difficulties are thrown in the way of any master who would free his slaves .
Not many years ago in North Carolina a free coloured man , who was Yery industrious , saved enough money to purchase his wife , time who
was a slaveand the children which had been born up to that . They wife and had all several , his children other children were his . slaves Now . by Unfortun the law atel of the he State became the y
involved in debthis creditors obtained judgments against , him , and his wife and children , were sold into perpetual slavery ! *
woin A an citizen as a of slave Mississi . She pp had i , named a son Elisha called Brazealle John Brazealle , held , a of coloured whom
her masterElisha Brazeallewas the acknowledged father . Elisha Brazealle went , into Ohio and , there emancipated this woman and
her sonand then returned to his house , Jefferson County , Missisthe sipp deed i , where , of emanci he lived ation until he his recited death . the B fact y his that will such , executed a deed after had
been his son propert executed The heirs y to , and the at p law said declared of John , Eli his sh Brazealle a intention Brazealle , acknowle to filed ratif d a g y ing bill it , him and in Chancery to devised he his
. on claiming the ound all the that estate the which deed had of emanci belonged pation to him was in void his as lifetime being ,
contrary gr to the laws and policy of Mississippi , and that being so , the said John Munroe Brazealle was still a slave and incapable
of taking by devise or holding property . The decision Was for the heirsAppeal was made to the hihest court in the State ,
and the decision . was the same ; " John g Munroe and his mother are still slaves and a part of the estate of Elisha Brazealle . "
cases "We of mi the ght workin go on with of the page slave after laws page in the of States such extracts but we from have
not space , , and could g not detail some cases , which are , too shocking even society Wh to at ? be can The printed be laws expected in must our be Journal with atrociousl such . an unjust institution if there as sl are avery laws in at a
African hum all regulating an being nature it wo . there uld The be is slaves under a fun th d such em of s gentleness elves y a system are , very , and onl much y patience that what in any and the '
cheerfulness , exceeding that of all other races , . Their indolence , and their disposition to lieare to be accounted for by their position .
, conceal They have his no motive and to work fear als but o fear is , the and great fear master makes of a man lies . powers
They treated are and loving their and affection , agreeable to children as servant is quite s wonderful in a house . , if well
One , of the most remarkable English women of this century resided in the Southern States for many months , and assured us
that she found more pleasure in the society of negroes than any Slavery * These in the cases several we hav States e abrid in ged the from United " A States Sketch of of America the Laws 2 nd relating edition to .
. By George M . Stroud . Philadelphia . 1856 . " r
And Of The Great Power That Holds Them. ...
AND OF THE GREAT POWER THAT HOLDS THEM . 373
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/13/
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