 | Alexander Adam - 1807 - 636 oldal
...death. Hence we find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account, Tacit. Ann. xiv. 43. Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice, Ter.Pkorm. ii. i. 62. nor make a will, Plin. Ep. viii. 16. nor inherit any thing, Id. iv. 1 1 . but... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1819 - 602 oldal
...death. Hence we find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account, Tacit. Ann. xiv. 43. Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...from one owner to another, like any other effects. . D 2 Slaves Slaves could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice? Ter. Phorm. ii. 1. 62., nor... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1831 - 192 oldal
...to be put to death. Hence we find no less than four hundred in one family punished on this account. Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but, -as things,...from one owner to another, like any other effects. They could not appear in a court of justice as witnesses, nor make a will, or inherit anything, or... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1835 - 604 oldal
...Hence we find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account, Tacit. Ann. [xiii. 32.] xiv. 43. Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...not appear as witnesses in a court of justice^, Ter. plaints of masters and their slaves ; and before it, the latter were permitted to appear and act on... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1835 - 570 oldal
...liable to be put to death. Hence we find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account1" Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...Slaves could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice,11 nor make a will, nor inherit any thing ;12 but gentle masters allowed them to make a kind... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1836 - 814 oldal
...individuals possessed, not for use, hut ostentation, ten thousand and even twenty thousand slaves. Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...from one owner to another, like any other effects. They could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice, nor make a will, nor inherit property, nor... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1836 - 476 oldal
...were liable to be put to death. Hence we find no lessthan 400 in one family punished on this account.6 Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...Slaves could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice,1 nor make a will, nor inherit any thing ;8 but gentle masters allowed them to make a kind... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1839 - 674 oldal
...individuals possessed, not for use, but ostentation, ten thousand and even twenty thousand slaves. Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...from one owner to another, like any other effects. They could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice, nor make a will, nor inherit property, nor... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1839 - 666 oldal
...find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account.10 Slaves were not esteemed as person), but as things, and might be transferred from one owner to another, like any other effect*. Slaves could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice," nor make a will, nor inherit... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1842 - 476 oldal
...liable to be put to death. Hence we find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account.6 Slaves were not esteemed as persons, but as things,...Slaves could not appear as witnesses in a court of justice,7 nor make a will, nor inherit anything ;8 but gentle masters allowed them to make a kind of... | |
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If a master of a family was slain at his own house, and the murderer not discovered, all his domestic slaves were liable to be put to death. Hence we find no less than 400 in one family punished on this account, Tacit. Ann. xiv. 4,S. Slaves were not esteemed... 
