4. A slave cannot be a party, before a judicial tribunal, in any species of action, against his master, whatever may have been the injury received from him.
5. Slaves cannot redeem themselves, nor obtain a change of masters.
6. Slaves being objects of property if injured by third persons, their owners may bring suit, and recover damages, for the injury.
7. Slaves can make no contract.
8. Slavery is hereditary and perpetual.
It may also be further stated concerning the disabilities of the slave,
1. That he cannot be a witness against a white person, either in a civil or criminal cause.
2. He cannot be a party to a civil suit.
3. Submission is required of the slave, not to the will of his master only, but to that of all other white persons.
4. The penal codes of the slave holding states bear much more severely upon the slaves than upon the white persons,—taking the life of the slave, where a slight punishment only is inflicted upon the whites.