Note 13 — Chapter XII · A COMPARISON OF THE ROMAN LAW OF SLAVERY WITH THE AMERICAN.
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See also the case of State v. Abram, 10 Ala. 928. 7 U. S. Dig. p. 449. “The master or overseer, and not the slave, is the proper judge whether the slave is too sick to be able to labor. The latter cannot, therefore, resist the order of the former to go to work.”