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Updated: June 22, 2025
It seemed to her that Deveny must have misunderstood Stroud's action, for it was clear to her even in the stress and confusion of the moment that Deveny thought Stroud had attacked her through motives that were strictly personal. Anyway, before Stroud could speak Deveny's pistol glittered. And malignantly, his eyes blazing with a jealous, evil light, he shot Stroud twice.
The Spanish and Portuguese are milder than either. I will give a brief view of some of our own laws on this subject; for the correctness of which, I refer the reader to Stroud's Sketch of the Slave Laws of the United States of America. In the first place, we will inquire upon what ground the negro slaves in this country are claimed as property.
What d'ye say?" "D'ye mean you're broke?" "Broke! I'm ruined!" "How did you lose your money?" Hiram asked innocently. "You're askin' for the story o' my life. What d'ye say, now? Le's go to work and get breakfast, then enter Morgan & Stroud's in our usual graceful manner and tell 'em we've decided to accept their kind offer and let 'em ship us south.
A few specimens of the laws and the judicial decisions on them, will show what is the state of 'public opinion' among slaveholders towards their slaves. Let the following suffice. 'Any person may lawfully kill a slave, who has been outlawed for running away and lurking in swamps, &c. Law of North Carolina; Judge Stroud's Sketch of the Slave Laws, 103; Haywood's Manual, 524.
This book is characterized by Charles G. Ames, whose long life of noble service to humanity included earnest work among the anti-slavery pioneers: "To my mind, the heaviest blow, though probably not the most telling one, ever struck against our slave system as a system was the compilation and publication of Stroud's Slave Laws a codification from the statute-books of the Southern States of their own barbarous methods of legislation, made necessary for the protection of the peculiar institution.
The following is an illustration of the 'public opinion' of South Carolina about fifty years ago. It is taken from Judge Stroud's Sketch of the Slave Laws, page 39. "I find in the case of 'the State vs. M'Gee, I Bay's Reports, 164, it is said incidentally by Messrs. It was made in a public place a courthouse and by men of great personal respectability.
Stroud's attentions to Constance, and had drawn my own conclusions; but when Kenneth went on in the same strain declaring that Constance would keep him hanging on till she saw any she liked better, I turned upon him rather sharply, 'I am very thankful you are not my brother. I think it is a shame of you to talk so, and I won't listen to any more of it!
Stroud's relatives. Kenneth went up to London, and as I was still far from strong, I was left to do very much as I liked, Nelly accompanying her mother when she went out. General Forsyth called me into his study one morning to have a talk over my future. 'Have you any idea in your own head when your marriage is to be? Has Stanton said anything to you about it?
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