… Such poll tax shall become due and payable on the first day of October in each year, and become delinquent on the first day of the next succeeding February, but no legal process, …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… of 1829, declares every meeting of slaves at any school by day or night, for instruction in reading or writing, an … say when they go with them to the judgment of the great day?” The following testimony with regard to the slaves in … the State of Ohio.” “Said a coloured woman to us the other day, ‘When I was little I used to long to read. After …