Punishments
* If a slave runs away or strikes a white person*
- 1st offence severely whipped, followed by slitting the nose, and burning some parts of their face with hot irons, and death for those who attached whites a second or third time.
-Second offence for runaways would be a R branded on their cheek and slaves might suffer the loss of an ear.
- Punishment for a fourth offense was castrating male slaves and branding an R on the left check of female slaves.
- Either cutting the tendon inn one leg or sentencing the enslaved person to death would be the punishment for the 5 attempts
- 1st offence severely whipped, followed by slitting the nose, and burning some parts of their face with hot irons, and death for those who attached whites a second or third time.
-Second offence for runaways would be a R branded on their cheek and slaves might suffer the loss of an ear.
- Punishment for a fourth offense was castrating male slaves and branding an R on the left check of female slaves.
- Either cutting the tendon inn one leg or sentencing the enslaved person to death would be the punishment for the 5 attempts
(1739)
- No slave shall be taught to write, work on Sunday, or work more that fifteen hours per day in summer and fourteen hours in winter.
- Willful killing of a slave exacts a fine of 700 pounds, and six months in prison are imposed on anyone selling or giving alcoholic beverage to slaves.
- A fine of one hundred dollars and six months in prison are imposed for teaching a slave to read and write, and death is the penalty for circulating incendiary literature.
Negro Act 1740
- If a white man kills an enslaved person it is a misdemeanor punishable by fine. - Slaves were not allowed to dress in a way "above the condition of slaves." Clothing must be made of coarse fabrics. - Slaves could not learn to read and write and nor assemble one another. People who violated these things were subjected to flogging. |