Excerpt from Some Remarks in Reference to Recent Proceedings of the Legislature of Barbados
By the 42d clause, the wilful murder of a slave is declared felony, without benefit of clergy and thus, any ambiguity that might possibly arise from the introduction of the words With out provocation, in the law as it before stood, is removed.
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