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John Casor was the first person to be enslaved for life in 1654
Under the 3/5ths Compromise, each enslaved person was counted as three fifths of a free person for population reasons. This was especially true when it came to determining taxation and legislative representation for slave holding states.
An obligation to pay a debt is usually by contract. A contract by a minor is "voidable" meaning that it can be invalidated. However, it is not void. The difference is sometimes important because if a contract is void then someone could never be held accountable. A contract by a minor however, may later be ratified (acknowledged as valid) by that invididual. Ratifying the contract then makes the person legally responsible. If the person who signed the contract as minor does not want to be held legally responsible, he or she must formally rebuke that contract.
Southerners believed article 4 section 2 of the constitution game them the right to retrieve an enslaved person who fled across state lines.
A person who is a slave is considered property and is owned by another person. An indentured servant is a free person who agrees for payment of their passage to the New World they would work for 7 years. There are still both slaves and indentured servants today.
An enslaved person is a slave. Furthermore, to my knowledge at least, an enslaved person is a person who has been forced into slavery against their individual will by some external deliberate force.
John Casor was the first person to be enslaved for life in 1654
Only if the person were a joint debtor. If the person did not jointly incur the debt nor enter into a financial agreement as a cosigner he or she is not responsible for that debt.
Each individual was responsible for errors when the are the delegated authority. There were many times that a person who was responsible for errors, took it upon themselves to correct them. They were deemed the authority.
The estate would be responsible for any individual debts. The co-signer would be responsible for any debts that were guaranteed by a co-signer.
Tituba was not a bad person, she was a victim. An enslaved black girl. The people who enslaved her and others were in fact the bad people.
one who is enslaved caused hardship by another person
A person that is responsible for pushing their parties agenda so as to be enacted is a legislator. In some cases, the individual is called a member of parliament.
Dred Scott
The correct sentence is: "You will be a responsible person." The article "a" is used before words that start with a consonant sound, while "an" is used before words that start with a vowel sound. In this case, "responsible" starts with a consonant sound.
A trainer in football is a person who trains an individual of the rules and the regulations and generally concentrates on an individual player but a coach is a person who understands every player and is responsible in improvising the performance of the entire team.
Yes. They are housed by the person who owns them.