 No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors, to the fourth generation inclusive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person.) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons.  Commentaries on American Law - Page 289by James Kent - 1858Full view - About this book
 | John Hope Franklin - Social Science - 1995 - 294 pages
...persons of mixed blood. The Act of 1777 . . . and the Constitution . . . designate such persons as those descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generat;on may have been a white person. And thus restricted, the act includes the defendant, who,... | |
 | Pauli Murray - Law - 1997 - 778 pages
...The term "negro" includes also a person of mixed blood descended from negro ancestry from the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person. Any person not included in the foregoing definition is deemed a white person within the meaning of... | |
 | Saidiya V. Hartman - African Americans - 1997 - 294 pages
...free negroes and mulattoes who are of pure negro blood, and those descended from a negro to the third generation, inclusive though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person."87 In addition, the act recognized the relations of those cohabiting as legal unions and recognized... | |
 | Salmon Portland Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 454 pages
...accordance with the state constitution of 1776, amended in 1835 to disenfranchise any "free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended...negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive." Revised Code of North Carolina, Enacted by the General Assembly at the Session of 1854 . . . , (Boston,... | |
 | Roger L. Kemp - Political Science - 1999 - 512 pages
...who met other requirements to vote, but it was amended in 1835 to provide that "no free Negro, free Mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended...Negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive ... shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons."6 Immediately after the Civil War, the... | |
 | Loren Schweninger - African Americans - 2001 - 340 pages
...persons of Negro, Indian, mulatto, or mixed ancestry — defined as "descended from negro or Indian ancestors, to the fourth generation inclusive, (though...of each generation may have been a white person)" — whether slave or free, could bear witness only against one another. The Laws of the State of North-Carolina,... | |
 | James W. Clarke - Law - 362 pages
...negro, mulatto, Indian, or person of mixed blood, descended from negro or Indian ancestors, to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, whether bond or free, is incapable of being a witness in any case, civil or criminal, except for or... | |
 | Roger L. Kemp - Political Science - 2002 - 452 pages
...who met other requirements to vote, but it was amended in 1835 to provide that "no free Negro, free Mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended...Negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive . . . shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons."6 Immediately after the Civil War,... | |
 | Loretta I. Winters, Herman L. DeBose - Psychology - 2003 - 436 pages
...that partially read: |A]1I negroes, mulartoes, Indians and all persons of mixed blood, to the rhird generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, whether bond or free; shall be taken, and deemed incapable in law, ro be witnesses . . . except for... | |
 | Williamson Simpson Oldham, George W. White - Law - 2004 - 850 pages
...All Negroes and Indians, and all persons of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestry, to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, shall be incapable of being a witness in any case whatever, except for or against each other, (b) Privileged... | |
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