This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... that whenever one person claims to hold another in slavery, the onus probandi lies on the claimant. This application of the Declaration of Independence was completely repudiated by the supreme court of appeals when the case came up for final review." Judge Tucker, who spoke for a unanimous court, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... that whenever one person claims to hold another in slavery, the onus probandi lies on the claimant. This application of the Declaration of Independence was completely repudiated by the supreme court of appeals when the case came up for final review." Judge Tucker, who spoke for a unanimous court, asserted that the burden of proof is not upon the claimant, but upon the negro to show that he is free; whereas with a white man or an Indian held in slavery the burden is with the claimant.M Again, in F ulton's Executors v. Gracey "House Journal, 1847-1848, p. 436. In the act incorporating the ttliwn ofManchester autlgirityulwas givfen to the trustees to prohibit saves, rec negroes, an in attoes rom raisin h s and d (Acts. 1843-1844. P-96)-' 8 O8 088 Although free negroes were not forbidden to possess poisonous drugs and intoxicating liquors, the sale of these articles to them was a matter of rigid regulation or absolute prohibition (Acts, 1855-1856, p. 45; 1857-1858, p. 51). Complaint came to the legislature in 1836 that free negroes were acting as agents for slaves in purchasing ardent spirits from the venders (MS. Petitions, Northumberland County, 1836, B 4cents9). "Hudgins v. Wright, 1 Hening and Munford, 133. "In the argument Judge Tucker supposes that "three persons, a black or mulatto man or woman with a fiat nose and woolly head; i pearing to be a white man or Indian the presumption is that he is free, but in the case of a person visibly appearing to be a negro, the presumption is that he is a slave.... The plaintiff in a suit for freedom must make out his title against all the world."" The presumption being thus against the freedom of negroes, there was always a temptation to " divers.
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