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virginia act xi
All persons except Negroes are to be provided with arms and ammunitions or be fined at the pleasure of the governor and council.” -
slave patrols
in South Carolina, slave patrols were established and the idea spread throughout the southern states. The institution of policing in America can be traced back to the slave patrols -
South Carolina slave code 1712
Slaves were forbidden to leave the owner's property, unless accompanied by a white person, or obtaining permission. If a slave leaves the owner's property without permission, "every white person" is required to chastise such slaves
Any slave attempting to run away and leave the colony (later, state) receives the death penalty
Any slave who evades capture for 20 days or more is to be publicly whipped for the first offense; branded with the letter R on the right cheek for the second offense; and l -
Maryland law
A person of color was not permitted to testify against a white Christian -
Louisiana, slave code 1724
"The slave who, having struck his master, his mistress, or the husband of his mistress, or their children, shall have produced a bruise, or the shedding of blood in the face, shall suffer capital punishment." -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Congress made a further attempt to address the concerns of slave owners over runaway slaves in 1787 by passing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The law appeared to outlaw slavery, which would have reduced the votes of slave states in Congress, but southern representatives were concerned with economic competition from potential slaveholders in the new territory, and the effects that would have on the prices of staple crops such as tobacco. They correctly predicted that slavery would be permitted -
fugitive slave act of 1793
The 1793 Fugitive Slave Act was the mechanism by which the government did that, and it was only at this point the government could pursue runaway slaves in any state or territory, and ensure slave owners of their property rights.[11] Section 3 is the part that deals with fugitive or runaway slaves, That when a person held to labor in any of the United States, or in either of the Territories on the Northwest or South of the river Ohio...shall escape into any other -
Alabama slave code 1833
"Any person or persons who attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction there of by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars." -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters -
The Twenty Negro Law 1862
name given to a section of the Second Conscription Act passed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 11 October 1862, during the American Civil War. This particular portion of that statute specifically exempted from military service one white male for every twenty slaves on a Southern plantation, or for two or more plantations within five miles of each other that collectively had twenty or more slaves.
