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• This practice received highly favorable social sanction, and masters often celebrated national holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, and other special events by manumitting one or more of their favorite slaves The law also defended the right of the slave to purchase his own freedom. —  The Black Experience in America
• He said the Mongomery affair was against his sanction, and he was sorry for it. —  Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
• On the other hand the constitutional convention not only rejected bodily all the reform measures but added to the Bill of Rights this extraordinary amendment: "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatsoever The slave trader once more had the courage to appear in the State. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
• The body not only ignored any plan of emancipation but drew the reins of the existing institution tighter than ever before by incorporating in the Bill of Rights the famous phrase that "the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatsoever." —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
• When those States find, that they must, in their national character and connexion_, suffer in the disgrace and share in the inconveniences attendant upon that detestable and iniquitous traffic, they may be desirous also to share in the benefits arising from it; and the odium attending it will be greatly effaced by the sanction which is given to it in the general government. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918

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