SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISED CODE OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA: BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF A PUBLIC AND PERMANENT NATURE, PASSED SINCE THE YEAR 1819, WITH A GENERAL INDEX. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, THE ACTS ORGANIZING A CONVENTION, THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, AND THE AMENDED CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA
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About This Item
Richmond: Samuel Shepherd, 1833. Original sheep [rubbed, joints splitting, large piece of spine bottom missing, split running part way through spine]. viii, 584pp. Endpapers removed, manuscript notations on pastedowns and in blank margin of title page. Foxed, index leaves browned. Good to Good+.
The new Acts include a detailed Code restricting the rights of slaves and Free Negroes, passed after the Nat Turner insurrection. The laws prohibit their religious instruction, except upon permission of their ministers, and then only by white preachers; bar their owning or keeping weapons or ammunition, or distributing liquor; prescribe the punishment of death "without benefit of clergy" for assaulting a white person with intent to kill; bar assemblies "by free negroes or mulattoes," as well as slaves. In addition, the 1830 Constitution as well as its enabling legislation is printed, along with Acts on a variety of subjects.
FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 847. AI 22498 [5].
The new Acts include a detailed Code restricting the rights of slaves and Free Negroes, passed after the Nat Turner insurrection. The laws prohibit their religious instruction, except upon permission of their ministers, and then only by white preachers; bar their owning or keeping weapons or ammunition, or distributing liquor; prescribe the punishment of death "without benefit of clergy" for assaulting a white person with intent to kill; bar assemblies "by free negroes or mulattoes," as well as slaves. In addition, the 1830 Constitution as well as its enabling legislation is printed, along with Acts on a variety of subjects.
FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 847. AI 22498 [5].
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- David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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- Title
- SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISED CODE OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA: BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF A PUBLIC AND PERMANENT NATURE, PASSED SINCE THE YEAR 1819, WITH A GENERAL INDEX. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, THE ACTS ORGANIZING A CONVENTION, THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, AND THE AMENDED CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA
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- Virginia
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- Used
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- Publisher
- Samuel Shepherd
- Place of Publication
- Richmond
- Date Published
- 1833
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- AMERICANA;
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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Woodbridge, Connecticut
About David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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