Slave states and free states

Section thirteen provides that for the failure of the master's duties or if He is Guilty of injuring his servant it must Be Redressed in The circuit Court,—A Pretty Hard court for a flogged slave to get access to! Section fourteen Makes all Contracts between masters and Servants during the Time of Service void.

Section fifteen Makes it the duty of the Circuit Court at all Times to hear complaints of servants Being Citizens [here is a difference] Against Masters for immoderate correction Or on Complaints of Masters Against Servants for Desertion Etc.: there Was a Slave law in Slave States That Absolved a Master from punishment If the slave died Under moderate Correction There seems to be some protection to the Negro in these sections, but we shall see that in the act concerning practice in the courts, in capital R laws, page five thirty-six, it provides that a person having one fourth Negro blood shall in no case be a witness against a white person.

Section sixteen provides that if any servant shall lawfully acquire property during the time of service such property shall be for his own use and the master is compelled to care for him when sick and lame until his term expires under penalty of thirty dollars for use of the county (mercy here again somewhat strained).

Section seventeen forbids any Negro or Indian from purchasing any servant other than of their own color and makes such contract void (if this law had been extended to white persons it might have put a new face on servant hire).

Although Dr.

Young was not thought to be the hardest of masters, he nevertheless employed as an overseer a man whose acts of atrocity could scarcely have been surpassed in any of the slave states.

Grove Cook was a large, tall man with rough features, red hair, gray eyes, and large, bushy eyebrows, which gave his face the appearance of a spaniel dog.

Like most Negro drivers, Cook was addicted to drunkenness, and when the least intoxicated would use the whip without mercy upon those with whom he came in contact.

Wherever the black man makes his appearance in the United States he meets this hatred.

In some sections of the country it is worse than in others.

As you advance nearer to the Slave States you feel this prejudice the more.

Twenty years ago, if colored persons traveled by steamboat they were put on the deck; if by coach, on the outside; if by railway, in the Jim Crow car.

Huh.

The Free States movement would begin, and multiple states would just straight up bail on the US.

Initially, the government would try to force the forces of the US military to reclaim those states, but they would not budge.

The forced deployment of US so- soldiers on US soil resulted in a cr- incredible attrition and active armed resistance.

All right.

The rest of the world would go through sporadic periods of martial law and civil unrest while corporations would begin to sink their teeth in deeper.

The number of free states would get into the double digits, but some would call craw- crawling back to America's corpse at some point.

This would also be the time where the arms race for literal arms would take off substantially at the behest of corporations.