A Report of the Trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late One of the Members of His Majesty's Council for the Virgin-Islands) at the Island of Tortola, on the 25th April, 1811, and Adjourned to the 29th of the Same Month, for the Murder of His Negro Man Slave Named Prosper |
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Page 176 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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| Title | A Report of the Trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late One of the Members of His Majesty's Council for the Virgin-Islands) at the Island of Tortola, on the 25th April, 1811, and Adjourned to the 29th of the Same Month, for the Murder of His Negro Man Slave Named Prosper Issue 26592 of Early American imprints Making of modern law Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law World trials library |
| Authors | Arthur Hodge, A. M. Belisario |
| Publisher | Tertius Dunning, 1812 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 186 pages |
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