"code" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To help regulate the relationship between slave and owner, including legal support for keeping the slave as property, slave codes were established.
- While each state had its own slave code, many concepts were shared throughout the slave states.
- According to the slave codes, teaching a slave to read or write was illegal, although it often took place as children taught each other.
- The slave codes were very strict, and robbed the African-American slaves of almost all of their rights as a human being.
- The Barbados Assembly reenacted the slave code, with minor modifications, in 1676, 1682, and 1688.
- During the late 17th century and early 18th century, harsh new slave codes limited the rights of African slaves and cut off their avenues to freedom.
- The Board passed slave codes, created a volunteer fire department, and created an overseer to improve street quality.
- Enforcement of slave codes also varied, but corporal punishment was widely and harshly employed to great effect.
- The extreme treatment was eventually regulated by slave codes, but plantation society remained tied to the rule of the whip.
- The official printed slave code was issued only a month before slavery ended there.
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