| Thomas D. Morris - Law - 1996 - 596 pages
...important exceptions. The phrase was "any other cruel punishments other than." The punishments allowed were "whipping or beating with a horsewhip, cowskin, switch or small stick" or putting on irons, or confining or imprisoning the slave.10 Whipping, no matter how long or bloody,... | |
| Gerald J. Pierson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 160 pages
...wilfully cut out the tongue, put out the eye, castrate, or cruelly scald, burn or deprive any slave of any limb or member, or shall inflict any other cruel punishment,...such slave; every such person shall for every such offense, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds current money. 44 to be a place where their illegal... | |
| John Elliott Cairnes - Economics - 2004 - 472 pages
...cut out the tongue, put out the eye, castrate, or cruelly scald, burn, or deprive any slave of any limb or member, or shall inflict any other cruel punishment,...such person shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of £100 current money, equal to 61 dollars, 23 cents," or £14 1.33. 4d. sterling. Thus, while... | |
| C. Bradley Thompson - Abolitionists - 324 pages
...South Carolina Southern Proofs That Slaves Are "Happy and Contented" other cruel punishment, otherwise than by whipping, or beating, with a horsewhip, cowskin, switch, or small stick, or by putting on irons, or confining, or imprisoning such slave, every such person, for every such offence shall... | |
| Elizabeth Sirimarco - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 150 pages
...cut out the tongue, put out the eye, castrate, or cruelly scald, burn, or deprive any slave of any limb or member, or shall inflict any other cruel punishment,...such slave, every such person shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, current money. — Cited by William Goodeil, The American... | |
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