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slave codes
n. (slave code English)
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Slave codes
Slave codes were a set of laws that allowed a slave's master to retrieve their slave from free states without their permission.
Usage examples of "slave codes".
On the large public plantations the slave codes were generally respected, but since everyone acknowledged that Mr.
On the large public plantations the slave codes were generally respected, but since every.
I hold in my hand sundry extracts from the slave codes of our country, from which I will quote.
Its refusal completes the assimilation of the wife to the slave -- and the slave under not the mildest form of slavery: for in some slave codes the slave could, under certain circumstances of ill usage, legally compel the master to sell him.