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Act X
This law is the first law making black people, namely slaves, getting more and more obsolete to society. This law prevented any dark- skinned person from being able to have firearms. Act X most likely was made to prevent slave rebellion. Even if it did prevent rebellion, the slaves had no means of protection and they can't defend their property, their family, and the place that they are slaving at.I believe that some slaves would get mad knowing now they had no firearms and rebel against .... -
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The Dying History of Slave Rights
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against the white man. I wouldn't be surprised if they did rebel. This law most probably also made some slaves wonder and think, "what will happen next?" However some slaves would probably get scared at this thought while others get infuriated. -
Document C
Anthony Johnson, a former slave, goes to court when a white man, Robert Parker, is called to court over a complaint. The final result was John Casar remain to be Anthony's slave and Robert Parker to pay a fine. This event proved that once there was equality. Dark-skinned people were once people and not property. In a few years later this saga will turn to a new level and have a completely level of comfort zone. This is just the beginning of a brutal period of the slavery era. -
Document A, White man deeded of Anthony's land
During a 13 year period, racial prejudice has been taken up a deadly knot. At first a black person, most probably a male, could go to court and win. Then 13 years later a black man, Anthony Johnson, is declared a alien and a local white farmer is deeded the land that Anthony would have passed down as a legacy to his heirs and wife. Johnson's children could not have duplicated his success. If, however, racial prejudice was not so hot and the land was given to Johnson's children, the total... -
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outcome would forever change. I'd even go as far as to say the total outcome of segregation might have been less intense and America would becoming the Melting Pot a whole lot quicker. -
Act I
Corporal punishment, declared as the only way to correct a slaves wrongings. This law takes out all the legal protection from being beaten and sometimes even killed, if they ever had any. Their overseer now has almost total control of their slave. If a slave should ever disobey or opress their master, it was decided that, depending on the extremity, slaves are to be punished with corporal punishment. This is one of the most fear-creating plots of the white man. -
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Driving fear into the hearts of a slave is one of the most effective ways to keep a slave from rebellion. This made the slow progress of dying slave rights to a small chisel of wood. -
Act XXII
This law states the final chisel of wood to turn into a pile of woodchips. From here on out the eventual dying of the frog in the pot is happening. Making slaves to be real estate, the most horrible humiliation. Now slaves are to be treated like a piece of furniture and bought like one, too. Finally the end is nigh, but then we have president Lincoln stepping up into the ballpark. This would be like a vet trying to heal the poor frog scalded from the boiling water. Thankfully the Emancipation -
Act XXII
Proclamation was passed guaranteeing the freedom of a slave and the equality of a regular person. Sadly that didn't happen. Even though slavery is over, black people, being equal, won't happen for a long time.
