[119] Acts of 1829, Ch. 74, Secs. 1-2. [120] Acts of 1829, Ch. 74, Sec. 4. [121] Acts of 1832, Ch. 34, Sec. 2. [122] Acts of 1846, Ch. 90, Sec. 3. [123] Acts of 1842, Ch. 141, Sec. 1. [124] Jennings v. the State, 3 Head, 519-520 (1859). [125] M. & C., Sec. 4865. [126] Jennings v. State, 3 Head, 522 (1859). [127] Tennessee Gazette and Mero District, Vol. 5, No. 22, July 3, 1805. [128] Acts of 1803, Ch. 13, Sec. 1. [129] Acts of 1836, Ch. 44, Sec. 2. [130] Niles Register, Vol. 41, pp. 340-1. [131] 24th and 25th Annual Report of American Anti-Slavery Society, 1857-58, 76-78. [132] 24th and 25th Annual Reports of American Anti-Slavery Society, 1857-58, p. 78. [133] Acts of 1803, Ch. 13, Sec. 3. [134] Acts of 1812, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. [135] Acts of 1831, Ch. 103, Sec. 1. [136] Unlawful assemblies was defined by the act of 1831 as being “all assemblages of slaves in unusual numbers, or at suspicious times and places not expressly authorized by their owners.” [137] Acts of 1799, Ch. 28, Sec. 1. [138] Acts of 1801, Ch. 32, Sec. 3. [139] Acts of 1813, Ch. 135, Sec. 6. [140] Acts of 1829, Ch. 74, Sec. 1. [141] Acts of 1831, Ch. 103, Sec. 4. [142] Acts of 1844, Ch. 129, Sec. 1. [143] Acts of 1741, Ch. 8, Sec. 10. [144] Acts of 1819, Ch. 35, Sec. 1. [145] Acts of 1835, Ch. 19, Sec. 10. [146] M. & C., Secs. 2625-28. [147] Acts of 1831, Ch. 103, Sec. 4. [148] Wheeler, Op. Cit., 41. [149] Acts of 1784, Ch. 10, Sec. 7. [150] Acts of 1801, Ch. 2, Sec. 11. [151] Davis v. Mitchell, 5 Yerger, 281 (1833); See also Cains and Wife v. Marley, 2 Yerger, 582 (1831); and Battle v. Stone, 4 Yerger, 168 (1833). [152] Ragan v. Kennedy, I Overton, 91 (1804). [153] Acts of 1784, Ch. 22, Sec. 11. [154] Ibid., Ch. 10, Sec. 4. [155] Acts of 1796, Ch. 14, Sec. 1. [156] Acts of 1819, Ch. 36, Sec. 1. [157] Young v. Pate, 4 Yerger, 164 (1833). [158] Acts of 1805, Ch. 16, Sec. 2. [159] Acts of 1715, Ch. 27, Sec. 5. [160] Hardeson v. Hays, 4 Yerger, 507 (1833); Kegler v. Miles, 1 Martin & Yerger, 426 (1825); Partee v. Badget, 4 Yerger, 174 (1833). [161] Davis v. Mitchell, 5 Yerger, 281 (1833). [162] Kegler v. Miles, 1 Martin & Yerger, 426 (1825). [163] Acts of 1801, Ch. 25, Sec. 2. [164] Acts of 1805, Ch. 16, Sec. 2. [165] Callen v. Thompson, 3 Yerger, 475 (1832). [166] Hooper’s Administratrix v. Hooper, 1 Overton, 187 (1801). [167] Acts of 1801, Ch. 25, Sec. 2. [168] Andrews v. Hartsfield. 3 Yerger, 39 (1832); see also Peters v. Chores, 4 Yerger, 176 (1833). [169] Harris v. Clarissa, 6 Yerger, 227 (1834). [170] Hope v. Johnson, 2 Yerger, 123 (1826). [171] Preston v. McGaughery, 1 Cook, 115 (1812). [172] Caines and Wife v. Marley, 2 Yerger, 586 (1831). [173] Smith v. Bell and Wife, 1 Martin & Yerger, 302 (1827). [174] Wheeler, Op. Cit., 225. [175] Andrews v. Page, 3 Heiskell, 661 (1868). [176] Ibid., 662. [177] Andrews v. Page, 3 Heiskell, 662-3 (1868). CHAPTER III ECONOMICS OF SLAVERY IN TENNESSEE