[128] Acts of 1803, Ch. 13, Sec. 1.

[129] Acts of 1836, Ch. 44, Sec. 2.

[130] Niles Register, Vol. 41, pp. 340-1.

[131] 24th and 25th Annual Report of American Anti-Slavery Society, 1857-58, 76-78.

[132] 24th and 25th Annual Reports of American Anti-Slavery Society, 1857-58, p. 78.

[133] Acts of 1803, Ch. 13, Sec. 3.

[134] Acts of 1812, Ch. 135, Sec. 1.

[135] Acts of 1831, Ch. 103, Sec. 1.

[136] Unlawful assemblies was defined by the act of 1831 as being “all assemblages of slaves in unusual numbers, or at suspicious times and places not expressly authorized by their owners.”

[137] Acts of 1799, Ch. 28, Sec. 1.