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Slave Contracts and the Thirteenth Amendment
by JC Williams · 2016 · Cited by 4 — In the slave-contract cases, a provision that positively enacted a great natural-law principle—the freedom of man—succumbed to the sacredness of personal ...
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Slave Code for the District of Columbia | Articles and Essays
Slaves, being property, could not own property or be a party to a contract. Since marriage is a form of contract, no slave marriage had any legal standing.
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Slave Contracts and the Thirteenth Amendment
by JC Williams 2016 Cited by 10 The Amendment itself permits slavery to exist as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Still, did the Thirteenth Amendment
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