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  2. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    Punishment and killing of slaves: Slave codes regulated how slaves could be punished, usually going so far as to apply no penalty for accidentally killing a slave while punishing them. [9] Later laws began to apply restrictions on this, but slave-owners were still rarely punished for killing their slaves. [ 10 ]

  3. Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia

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    These codes effectively embedded the idea of slavery into law by the following devices: [4] These codes: established new property rights for slave owners, allowed for the legal, free trade of slaves with protections granted by the courts, established separate courts of trial, prohibited slaves from going armed without written permission, [5] [6 ...

  4. Treatment of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slave breeding was the attempt by a slave-owner to influence the reproduction of his slaves for profit. [48] It included forced sexual relations between male and female slaves, encouraging slave pregnancies, sexual relations between master and slave to produce slave children and favoring female slaves who had many children.

  5. Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most important part of the Compromise received the least attention during debates. Enacted September 18, 1850, it is informally known as the Fugitive Slave Law, or the Fugitive Slave Act. It bolstered the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. The new version of the Fugitive Slave Law now required federal judicial officials in all states and ...

  6. Slavery and the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    He does not owe and cannot owe service. He cannot even make a contract"; and that the clause giving Congress the power to "suppress Insurrections" (Article I, section 8) gives Congress the power to end slavery "[i]f it should turn out that slavery is a source of insurrection, [and] that there is no security from insurrection while slavery lasts

  7. Fugitive slave laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. The idea of the fugitive slave law was derived from the Fugitive Slave Clause which is in the United States Constitution ( Article IV , Section 2, Paragraph 3).

  8. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam in 1655, an illustration by Howard Pyle. The laws relating to slavery and their enforcement hardened in the second half of the 17th century, and the prospects for Africans and their descendants grew increasingly dim.

  9. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    Slavery had never been authorized by statute within England and Wales, and in 1772, in the case Somerset v Stewart, Lord Mansfield declared that it was also unsupported within England by the common law. The slave trade was abolished by the Slave Trade Act 1807, although slavery remained legal in possessions outside Europe until the passage of ...