Excerpt from African Colonization Its Principles and Aims: An Address NO slave, however worthy, can henceforth, in Louisiana and several other States, have freedom conferred upon him while in those States; neither is be permitted to return after being emancipated. The Supreme Judicial Tribunal of Virginia have decided, that slaves have no civil or social rights, and that the slave cannot choose between freedom and slavery, if the Offer be made him by his master; and that, consequently, a slave left by his master with freedom, if he choose to take it, can have no legal right to choose freedom, and must, therefore, still be a slave. It will thus be seen that the free colored man is likely to be driven from the Southern States by new legislative enactments; and that, where wills allowing the slave, at the death of the master, to elect freedom or continue In servitude, were once favored, how they are under the ban of law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.