Note A — ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER. No. 6. NARRATIVE OF JAMES WILLIAMS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE.
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[Footnote A: The cardinal principle of slavery, that a slave is not to be ranked among sentient beings, but among things, as an article of property, a chattel personal, obtains as undoubted law, in all the slave states. (Judge Stroud's Sketch of Slave Laws, p. 22.)]