The Slave Codes. Alabama 1833

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4. New England Slave Codes.

Connecticut An Act punishing Negro and mulatto servants or slaves who disturb
the peace or threaten harm to any white persons." And whereas Negro and mulatto
servants or slaves are become numerous in some parts of this Colony and are very apt
to be turbulent, and often quarrelling with white people to the great disturbance of the
peace: It is therefore ordered. That if any Negro or mulatto servant or slave disturb the
peace, or shall offer to strike any white person, and be thereof convicted, such Negro or
mulatto servant or slave shall be punished by whipping, at the discretion of the courts,
assistant, or justice of the peace that shall have cognizance thereof, not exceeding thirty
stripes for one offense." (Public Records, 1706-16, pp. 52-53)

Just one example of many.

http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/stowedocuments/African_American_Slavery_in_New_England.pdf