WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

" Slaves being held as Property, like other domestic animals, their Offspring are held as Property, in perpetuity, in the same manner.The law of South Carolina ways of slaves, 'All their issue and their offspring, born of to be born, shall be , and are herby declared to be, and remain FOR EVER HEAREAFTER, absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother.".....Thus the perpetuity of slavery grows out of its hereditary transmission, and this again comes from the tenure of chattel hood.  If the "legal relation" be valid and innocent, there can be no argument admitted against the right of its perpetuity;  and slave property may be held so long as other property is held.  The duty of a future liberation will imply the unlawfullnes of present possession. Intelligent slaveholders, present possession. Intelligent slaveholder, perceiving this, are careful to foritify their present claims upon human chattels, by enactments seeking the perpetuity of the system".  CHAPTER XXI, THE RELATION HERDITARY AND PERPETUAL, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illistrative Facts, William Goodell.