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In the antebellum South, many states passed laws that made it a crime for someone to mistreat, abuse, neglect, or murder a slave. Were these laws ever enforced? Are there any records of someone receiving punishment because of how they treated a slave?

by /u/Try_Another_NO in /r/AskHistorians

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