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This was certainly a most novel mode of erecting and commissioning a Court of judicature, with the power of life and death, expressly authorized to act independently of "the laws of the land.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “This was certainly a most novel mode of erecting and commissioning a Court of judicature, with the power of life and…”
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Tappan comments on the unusual and extralegal nature of a court established by slaveholders to enforce their will.
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