Enslaved Persons
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his slaves · slaves · the blacks · the negroes · the slave · the slaves
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Enslaved African Americans in the American South, whose obedience to their masters is analyzed as resting on opinion and habit rather than sheer force.
and even more from that habit of submission which, though enforced by the occasional punishment of rebels, was grounded upon a number of complicated sentiments, such, for example, as admiration for superior ability and courage, or gratitude for kindness, which cannot by any fair analysis be reduced to a mere form of fear, but constitute a kind of prevalent moral atmosphere.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Enslaved individuals discussed as the subjects whose legal status of freedom or bondage is at issue.
And for aught I see, it was equally obligatory in this country as in England, and must have freed every slave in this country, if the question had then been raised here.
And it must therefore always have been held by English courts, (in consistency with the decisions in Somerset’s case,) that the slave trader had no legal ownership of his slave.
It was decided by the Court of King’s Bench in England—Lord Mansfield being Chief Justice—before our revolution, and while the English Charters were the fundamental law of the colonies—that the principles of English liberty were so plainly incompatible with slavery, that even if a slaveholder, from another part of the world, brought his slave into England—though only for a temporary purpose, and w …