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Book Excerpt: e chattels personal in thehands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, andpurposes whatsoever. A slave is one who is in the power of amaster to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose ofhis person, his industry, and his labour. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what must belong tohis master. The slave is entirely subject to the will of hismaster, who may correct and chastise him, though not with unusualrigour, or so as to maim and mutilate him, or expose him to thedanger of loss of life, or to cause his death. The slave, toremain a slave, must be sensible that there is no appeal from hismaster." Where the slave is placed by law entirely under thecontrol of the man who claims him, body and soul, as property, what else could be expected than the most depraved socialcondition? The marriage relation, the oldest and most sacredinstitution given to man by his Creator, is unknown andunrRead M
