Christian Slavery - Bad News About Christianity

the female slave, not to the master of her husband.
Article XVI. We also forbid slaves who belong to different masters from gathering,
either during the day or at night, under the pretext of a wedding or other excuse,
either at one of the master's houses or elsewhere, and especially not in major
roads or isolated locations. They shall risk corporal punishment that shall not be
less than the whip and the fleur de lys, and for frequent recidivists and in other
aggravating circumstances, they may be punished with death, a decision we leave
to their judge. ..
Article XXXI. Slaves shall not be a party, either in court or in a civil matter, either
as a litigant or as a defendant, or as a civil party in a criminal matter…
Article XXXVIII. The fugitive slave who has been on the run for one month from
the day his master reported him to the police, shall have his ears cut off and shall
be branded with a fleur de lys on one shoulder. If he commits the same infraction
for another month, again counting from the day he is reported, he shall have his
hamstring cut and be branded with a fleur de lys on the other shoulder. The third
time, he shall be put to death.
Article XLII. The masters may also, when they believe that their slaves so
deserve, chain them and have them beaten with rods or straps…
Article XLIV. We declare slaves to be charges, and as such enter into community
property. They are not to be mortgaged, and shall be shared equally between the
co-inheritors without benefit to the wife or one particular inheritor...
Slavery in North America
Slaves in the US were mere property, even in so-called free states, as confirmed in the case of
Dred Scott v. Sanford (60 U.S. 393 (1857)). A slave named Dred Scott tried to sue his master, Dr.
John Emerson, a surgeon in the US Army, for his freedom and that of his wife and their two
daughters, on the grounds that they had moved to free states and that the slave family, was
therefore free. The United States Supreme Court decided by 7–2 against Scott, finding that
neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States,
and therefore could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. The Court
held that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories because slaves are
personal property and the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution protected property owners against
deprivation of their property without due process of law. According to Chief Justice Roger B.
Taney, the authors of the Constitution had viewed all blacks as "beings of an inferior order, and
altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far
inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"
Virginia Statutes: ACT XII (1662)
That the children of slave women were always slaves themselves
was a principle of Church Law, that had been carried over into Civil Law before the Revolution
( Under English common law, the father’s status determined his children’s status)
Negro women's children to serve according to the condition of the mother
Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children got by any Englishman upon a negro
woman should be slave or free, Be it therefore enacted and declared by this present grand
assembly, that all children borne in this country shall be held bond or free only according to
the condition of the mother, and that if any Christian shall commit fornication with a negro
man or woman, he or she so offending shall pay double the fines imposed by the former act.
Slave Advertisement, Charleston, South Carolina, 1780s
Slaves were regarded like livestock - healthy specimens commanded higher prices.