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" Be it enacted, That all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach, or cause any slave or slaves to be taught to write, or shall use or employ any slave as a scribe in any manner of writing... "
Statutes Enacted by the Royal Legislature of Georgia from Its First Session ... - Page 685
by Georgia - 1910
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A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and ...

Georgia, Oliver Hillhouse Prince - 1822 - 686 pages
...them, not exceeding twenty lashes on the bare back. And -whereas the having slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences : 38. Sec. XXXIX. Be it therefore enacted, That all and every per- к-naiiyon son and persons whatsoever,...
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An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the ...

William Wilberforce - 1823 - 642 pages
...The following is from a statute of South Carolina. ' And whereas the having of slaves taught to write or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences : Be it enacted, That all and every person and persons whatever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave...
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A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United ...

George McDowell Stroud - 1827 - 190 pages
...In 1740, while yet a province, she enacted this law: " Whereas the having of slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences, Be it enacted, That all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave...
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The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year ..., Volume 2

Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 606 pages
...Christianity.8 The legislature of South Carolina, premising, that the having of slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences, passed an act, That whoever shall teach, or cause any slave or slaves to be taught to write, or shall...
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A Digest of the Laws of the United States & the State of South-Carolina Now ...

Thomas Doughty Condy - 1830 - 210 pages
...10, 1740. Grimke's Public Laws, 174. 473. SEC. XLV. And whereas the having of slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences ; Be it enacted, That no person or persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave or slaves...
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Marie ou l'esclavage aux Etats-Unis: tableau de moeurs américaines, Volume 1

Gustave de Beaumont - 1835 - 424 pages
...n'est pas plus grave quand il les tue '. Ainsi i And whereas the having of slaves taught to write , or suffering them to be employed in writing may be attended with great inconveniencies ; be it inacted, that all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter...
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A history of slavery and its abolition

Esther Copley - 1836 - 814 pages
...obsolete and abrogated t — "South Carolina, 1740. Whereas, the having of slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences, be it enacted, that all and each person and personswhalsoever who shall hereafter teach, or canse any slave...
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A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General ..., Volume 8; Volume 1225

Great Britain - 1836 - 592 pages
...And whereas the laws now in being are not found stifficieirt to remedy the aforesaid evils:' Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every person and persons who, from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, ¡-haj'...
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Marie: ou, L'esclavage aux États-Unis, tableau de moeurs américaines, Volume 2

Gustave de Beaumont - 1836 - 430 pages
...pas plus grave quand il les tue (i). Ainsi la (i) And wheras the having of slaves taught to Write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with greât inconveniencies ; be it inacted, that ail and every person andpersons whatsoever, who shall...
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Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on ...

La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 160 pages
...In 1740, while yet a province, she enacted this law : Whereas the having of slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences, Be it enacted, That all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave...
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