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M S-1804 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
Descriptors: Branding; Cruelty to slaves; Dogs,
Free Negroes; Hiring of negroes; Hogs; Horses;
Imprisonment; Insurrection; Mulattoes; Nat
chez, MS; Passes; Patrols; Riots and disorders;
Runaways; Taxation; Trading with slaves; Trials;
Unlawful assembly; Weapons; Whipping
MS-1805.7
Contains:
• An Act to prevent the liberation of Slaves,
only in cases hereafter named, and for other
purposes, [pp. 13-14]
Descriptors: Emancipation
MS-1805.12
Contains:
• An Act to emancipate certain Slaves
therein mentioned, [pp. 10-11]
• An Act to repeal part of an act entitled "An
Act respecting Slaves." [p. 12]
Descriptors: Manumission; Washington County,
MS; Anastasie (slave); Andry, Seymour; Eupha-
sine (slave); Felin (slave); John (woman slave);
Lucia (slave); Romain (slave); Maximilion
(slave); Sylvester (slave)
MS-1809.2
Contains:
• • An Act authorizing the assessment and
collection of a tax on the inhabitants of the
county of Amite, for defraying the expence
of erecting a Court house. Jail and Stocks in
said county, and for other purposes, [pp.
10-11]
Descriptors: Amite County, MS; Taxation
MS-1809.5
Contains:
• An Act establishing Patrols and for other
purposes, [pp. 3, 24-27]
• An Act directing the taking of the Census
of the Mississippi Territory, [pp. 42-44]
• An Act to raise a Revenue, [pp. 50-52, 64]
222 State Slavery Statutes
• An Act respecting runaway slaves commit-
ted to Jail. [pp. 102-103]
Descriptors: Animals; Census; Dogs; Free per-
sons of color; Free white males; Imprisonment;
Liquor laws; Militia; Passes; Patrols; Riots and
disorders; Runaways; Sales of slaves; Taxation;
Unlawful assembly; Whipping
MS-1810
Contains:
• An Act entitled an act, supplementary to
"an act, respecting slaves." [pp. 33-35]
Descriptors: Trading with negroes; Robbery and
theft; Whipping
MS-1812
Contains:
• An Act to amend the Act, for the
punishment of crimes and misdemeanors,
[pp. 69-72]
• An Act prescribing a summary mode for the
trial of Slaves, [pp. 75-76]
Descriptors: Assault; Capital punishment; Im-
prisonment; Insurrection; Murder; Trials
MS-1813
Contains:
• An Act to amend "An act prescribing a
summary mode for the trial of Slaves." [pp.
9-11]
Descriptors: Arson; Capital crimes; Capital pun-
ishment; Murder; Rape; Trials; Whipping
MS-1814
Contains:
• An Act to authorize William Barland to
manumit certain persons of colour, [pp.
40-41]
Descriptors: Adams County, MS; Manumission;
Barland, Adam (person of color); Barland, Agnes
(alias Anna, person of color); Barland, Alexander
(person of color); Barland, Andrew (person of
color); Barland, David (person of color); Barland,
Elizabeth (alias Elizabeth Germain, person of