 ... any person that teaches a person of color, slave or free, to read or write, or causes such persons to be so taught, is subjected to a fine of thirty dollars for each offence; and every person of color who shall teach reading or writing, is subject...  Analysis of the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons on the ... - Page 136by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions - 1833 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1818 - 396 pages
...offence ; and every person of colour who shall keep a school to teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of th,irty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine la'.hes !ยป Such is the News-paper account. If it be correct and founded on fact,... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...offence; and every person of colour who shall keep a school to teach reading or writing is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine lashes!!!" This ordinance, it will be perceived, extends its prohibitions beyond... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1833 - 978 pages
...person of colour, slave or free, to read or write incurs a fine of thirty dollars for each ofience ; and every person of colour keeping a school to teach...Louisiana, where it is enacted that it shall be the duty of the owner to procure for his sick slaves all kinds of temporal and spiritual assistance which their... | |
 | New York City Anti-Slavery Society - Abolitionists - 1833 - 90 pages
...dollars for each offense ; and every person of color who shall teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine lashes." We do not doubt that the humanity of some slave holders mitigates the... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1833 - 262 pages
...dollars for each offence ; and every person of color who shall teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thtrtynine lashes." From these facts it is evident that legislative power prevents a master... | |
 | Edward Strutt Abdy - African Americans - 1835 - 434 pages
...person of colour, slave or free, to read or write, or causes such persons to be so taught, is subjected to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine lashes." So much for liberty in America, where even a white man is not free to... | |
 | Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1836 - 262 pages
...dollars for each offence; and every person of color who shall teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine lashes.' " From these facts it is evident that legislative power prevents a master... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 282 pages
...offence ; and every person of color who shall keep a school, to teach reading or writing, is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days, and whipped thirty-nine lashes." Secondly, In regard to religious privileges : The State of Georgia has... | |
 | William Goodell - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 448 pages
...offense ; and every person of color who shall keep a school to teach reading or writing is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days, and whipped thirty-nine lashes!" " In. North Carolina, to teach a slave to read or write, or sell or give... | |
 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1856 - 320 pages
...offence ; and every person of colour who shall keep a school to teach reading or writing is subject to a fine of thirty dollars, or to be imprisoned ten days and whipped thirty-nine lashes" ! ! p. 325. With such legislative obstacles to his mental improvement,... | |
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