any white person, in a high road, may whip each slave twenty lashes. — p. 454.
Any slave who harbors a runaway, may suffer punishment to any extent, not affecting life or limb.—p. 453.
SOUTH CAROLINA.—Brevard's Digest.—Slaves shall be deemed sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatever.— Vol. ii., p. 229.
Act of 1740, in the preamble, states that "many owners of slaves and others that have the management of them do confine themso closely to hard labor, that they have not sufficient time for natural rest, and enacts that no slave shall be compelled to labor more than fifteen hours in the twenty-four, from March 25th to Sept. 25th, or fourteen in the twenty-four for the rest of the year. Penalty from £5 to £20.—Vol. ii.. p. 243.
[Yet, in several of the slave states, the time of work for criminals whose punishment is hard labor, is eight hours a day for three months, nine hours for two months, and ten for the rest of the year.]
A slave endeavoring to entice another slave to run away, it provision be prepared for the purpose of aiding or abetting such endeavor, shall suffer death.—pp. 233 and 244.
Penalty for cruelly scalding or burning a slave, cutting out his tongue, putting out his eye, or depriving him of any limb, a fine of £100. For beating with a horse-whip, cow-skin, switch or small stick, or putting irons on, or imprisoning a slave, no penalty or prohibition.—p. 241
Any person who, not having lawful authority to do so, shall beat a slave, so as to disable him from working, shall pay fifteen shillings a day to the owner, for the slave's lost time, and the charge of his cure.—pp. 231 and 232.
A slave claiming his freedom may sue tor is by some friend who will act as guardian, but if the action be judged
