Post by 1dell on Sept 15, 2004 7:41:37 GMT -5
This is from Prophet Yahweh's yahoo group:
The name of the book is: "Rise And Fall Of Black Slavery" by C. Duncan Rice. It's published by Harper and Row Publishers in New York city.
The ISBN number is: 0-06-013552-2.
The following is, exactly, how the statement appears on pages 68-69:
"Most of the early slave law of the English settlements was enacted piecemeal by the legislatures of the individual colonies, to cover immediate problems of controlling the black labor force. In the last decades of the seventeenth century, however, a number of colonies summarized, and restated their legislation in an attempt to provide coherent local slave codes. A fine example of such a code was Barbados's one, drafted in 1688 as 'An Act for the Governing of Negroes'. Like other colonists, the Barbadian assemblymen felt that separate black laws was necessary 'forasmuch as the said Negroes and other Slaves brought unto the People of this island... are of barbarous, wild, and savage Natures, and such as renders them wholly unqualified to be governed by the Laws, Customs, and Practices of our Nation'. The code was aimed - and in this it was typical - both at restraining the blacks and punishing those whites who endangered the colony through the laxity of their discipline. No slave could leave his plantation without a pass. Since it was 'absolutely necessary to the Safety of this Place, that all due care be taken to restrain the Wanderings and Meetings of Negroes', any white was authorized to capture and whip any slave abroad without a pass or with weapons, horns or drums. Masters who did not periodically search for weapons and musical instruments were to be fined. If a slave offered 'any Violence to any Christian', he was to be whipped for a first offense, branded for a second, punished more severely for a third. A reward of 10s. was given to anyone seizing a run-away slave. For arson, murder, burglary, robbery, and stealing or maiming of livestock, slaves, could be sentenced to death by two justices with three co-opted freeholders, without benefit of jury trial. Petty theft brought forty lashes for a first offence, branding on the forehead for a second, death for a third. Those guilty of insurrection were to suffer 'Death or other Pains, as their Crimes shall deserve', at the discretion of the commanders who caught them, with compensation for the master if he could prove it was not he who had driven his people to revolt. To keep down the dangers of a large servile population, buying them just to hire out was forbidden, with specific mention of owners of 'the Hebrew nation'."
I would like to look further into this book because to me it doesn't appear that this person is calling blacks the hebrew nation within the context usage of the term.
The name of the book is: "Rise And Fall Of Black Slavery" by C. Duncan Rice. It's published by Harper and Row Publishers in New York city.
The ISBN number is: 0-06-013552-2.
The following is, exactly, how the statement appears on pages 68-69:
"Most of the early slave law of the English settlements was enacted piecemeal by the legislatures of the individual colonies, to cover immediate problems of controlling the black labor force. In the last decades of the seventeenth century, however, a number of colonies summarized, and restated their legislation in an attempt to provide coherent local slave codes. A fine example of such a code was Barbados's one, drafted in 1688 as 'An Act for the Governing of Negroes'. Like other colonists, the Barbadian assemblymen felt that separate black laws was necessary 'forasmuch as the said Negroes and other Slaves brought unto the People of this island... are of barbarous, wild, and savage Natures, and such as renders them wholly unqualified to be governed by the Laws, Customs, and Practices of our Nation'. The code was aimed - and in this it was typical - both at restraining the blacks and punishing those whites who endangered the colony through the laxity of their discipline. No slave could leave his plantation without a pass. Since it was 'absolutely necessary to the Safety of this Place, that all due care be taken to restrain the Wanderings and Meetings of Negroes', any white was authorized to capture and whip any slave abroad without a pass or with weapons, horns or drums. Masters who did not periodically search for weapons and musical instruments were to be fined. If a slave offered 'any Violence to any Christian', he was to be whipped for a first offense, branded for a second, punished more severely for a third. A reward of 10s. was given to anyone seizing a run-away slave. For arson, murder, burglary, robbery, and stealing or maiming of livestock, slaves, could be sentenced to death by two justices with three co-opted freeholders, without benefit of jury trial. Petty theft brought forty lashes for a first offence, branding on the forehead for a second, death for a third. Those guilty of insurrection were to suffer 'Death or other Pains, as their Crimes shall deserve', at the discretion of the commanders who caught them, with compensation for the master if he could prove it was not he who had driven his people to revolt. To keep down the dangers of a large servile population, buying them just to hire out was forbidden, with specific mention of owners of 'the Hebrew nation'."
I would like to look further into this book because to me it doesn't appear that this person is calling blacks the hebrew nation within the context usage of the term.
