to sell sugar-cane (even with their masters’ per- mission) or anything else without their masters’ sanction and knowledge. For contravening the regulation as to assembling in crowds they might, if often re- peated, be killed. They were to be well nourished and clothed at the expense of their… … 1 17. french negroes dancing on sentence was to be inflicted if a slave com- FRENCH NEGROES DANCING ON A FETE DAY mitted a violent assault on any free person. Eighteenth century Thefts were to be punished with death, brand- ing, or whipping ; and any loss of property due to a slave’s theft was to…
Blacks · Slavery
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