Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Anti-Slavery Reporter, Vol. 4: August 20, 1831
If the slave were guilty, there was a tribunal before which to bring her. The protector had only to ascertain simply whether the mistress had broken the law. Whenever it is ascertained, or even when there is a presumption that the law has been broken, it is no part of the Protector's intended functions, that he should exercise a disere tion to dispense with the prosecution; nor am I able to discover the reasons by which he was guided in the discretion which he exercised in this particular case. (ibid. P.
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