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Migration

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

' ' Migration " and " importation," as used in sec.

9, art.

I, of the Constitution, refer to the different conditions of persons of the African race as regards freedom and slavery. When the free black man came here, he migrated; when the slave came, he was imported — as property.^