Reversing itself, the Province of Georgia decides to permit slavery.
Both territories were required to determine for themselves whether to permit slavery.
It was a commonly held belief in the South that the Bible permitted slavery.
Douglas argued that therefore, the people of a Territory should decide whether to permit or exclude slavery, not Congress.
All of them permitted slavery, but the rules differed greatly from region to region.
The Empire doesn't permit slavery or bondage of any form!
Written by men whose wives couldn't vote and whose country permitted slavery, it has transcended their time.
However, the rationale for permitting slavery was already under scrutiny, although later historians have not always appreciated this.
Neither the gods of the Eceni nor their dreamers permitted slavery.
"We do not permit slavery aboard Odysseus," I said.