Note A — THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER No. 5 * * * * * THE POWER OF CONGRESS OVER THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
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The law of Louisiana makes slaves real estate, prohibiting the holder, if he be also a land holder, to separate them from the soil.A If it has power to prohibit the sale without the soil, it can prohibit the sale with it; and if it can prohibit the sale as property, it can prohibit the holding as property. Similar laws exist in the French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies.