 | John Hibbert De Witt, William Alexander Provine, St. George Leakin Sloussat - 1918 - 314 pages
...restrained, it is true, and his owner controls his actions and claims his services. But he is made after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities,...held as a slave have not and cannot extinguish his high-born nature nor deprive him of many rights which are inherent in man. "James vs. State, 9 Hum.,... | |
 | Caleb Perry Patterson - 1922 - 226 pages
...of the Creator. He has mental capacities, and an immortal principle in his nature, that constitutes him equal to his owner but for the accidental position...laws under which he is held as a slave have not and can not extinguish his high-born nature nor deprive him of many rights which are inherent in man. Thus... | |
 | Robert Ewing Corlew - 1990 - 660 pages
...in 1846 in Ford v. Ford, with "mental capacities" and an "immortal principle in his nature" to make him "equal to his owner but for the accidental position in which fortune has placed him." As representatives of the people, Tennessee legislators wrestled with their consciences with regard... | |
 | Peter W. Bardaglio - 1998 - 388 pages
...slave was "not in the condition of a horse or an ox" but was "made in the image of the Creator," fully "equal to his owner but for the accidental position in which fortune has placed him."96 A profound contradiction thus lay at the heart of the law of slavery. Defined as a chattel... | |
 | Thomas D. Morris - 1996 - 596 pages
...possible contractual foundation for freedom: A slave is not in the condition of a horse or an ox. ... He has mental capacities, and an immortal principle...held as a slave have not and cannot extinguish his high-born nature nor deprive him of many rights which are inherent in man. Thus while he is a slave,... | |
 | Rogers M. Smith - 1997 - 740 pages
...Green still drew on the nation's religious and Enlightenment traditions to assert that a slave "is made after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities,...accidental position in which fortune has placed him." The owner's merely "conventional rights" over the slave could not "extinguish his high born nature, nor... | |
 | Ezekiel Birdseye, Durwood Dunn - 1997 - 328 pages
...Green wrote in a famous 1846 case confirming this basic recognition of the slave's humanity: He is made after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities,...position in which fortune has placed him . . . the laws . . . cannot extinguish his high born nature, nor deprive him of many rights which are inherent... | |
 | C. Vann Woodward - 1997 - 385 pages
...184.6 ruling of a Kentucky judge that "A slave is not in the condition of a horse. . . . He is made after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities, and an immortal principle in his nature. . . . The law . . . cannot extinguish his high born nature, nor deprive him of many rights which are... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - 1999 - 276 pages
...Green of the Tennessee Supreme Court declared in 1846 that 'A slave is not in the condition of a horse. He has mental capacities, and an immortal principle...accidental position in which fortune has placed him.' But how did this statement square with Judge Thomas Ruffin of North Carolina's judgement of 1829? The... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 pages
...restrained, it is true, and his owner controls his actions and claims his services. But he is made after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities,...held as a slave have not and cannot extinguish his high-born nature nor deprive him of many rights which are inherent in man.102 Last but not least, Christian... | |
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Ford.] after the image of the Creator. He has mental capacities, and an immortal principle in his nature, that constitute him equal to his owner, but for the accidental position in which fortune has placed him. 