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… equity and justice in wrongful conviction compensation laws. Department: Political Science and History Undergraduate …

… Recently a slave himself, and still liable, by the laws of his country, to be seized and carried back into … and to a great extent this is true; it makes and unmakes laws—it establishes and overturns the customs of society; and … judgment of his hearers. He read copious extracts from the laws of the slave states, proving that a grinding despotism …

… that is the position of America in the present time, the laws forbid education, the mother must not teach her child … the right to enslave [us]. Now let me read a few of the laws of that democratic country, not that I have anything … Mr. President, I shall give you a few specimens of these laws. In South Carolina in 1770, this law was passed. …