[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.