Collection
Cameron Rowland
probability of escape, 2020
- Materials
- Police car searchlight
- Dimensions
- 19 5/8 × 5 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.
- Credit
- Museum Purchase
Cameron Rowland probability of escape 2020. Police car searchlight. Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Museum purchaseIf any poor small free-holder or other person kill a Negro or other Slave by Night out of the Road or Common Path and stealing or attempting to steal his Provision Swine or other Goods he shall not be accountable for it any Law Statute or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act for the Governing of Negroes Barbados 1688If any person shall kill a slave stealing in his house or plantation by night the said slave refusing to submit himself such person shall not be liable to any damage or action for the same any law custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act for the Better Ordering of Slaves South Carolina 1690A citizen may arrest a person in the nighttime by efficient means as the darkness and the probability of escape render necessary even if the life of the person should be taken when the person(a) has committed a felony(b) has entered a dwelling house without express or implied permission(c) has broken or is breaking into an outhouse with a view to plunder(d) has in his possession stolen property or(e) being under circumstances which raise just suspicion of his design to steal or to commit some felonyflees when he is hailed. SC Code 17-13-20 (2012) South Carolina current statute
Cameron Rowland probability of escape 2020. Police car searchlight. Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Museum purchaseIf any poor small free-holder or other person kill a Negro or other Slave by Night out of the Road or Common Path and stealing or attempting to steal his Provision Swine or other Goods he shall not be accountable for it any Law Statute or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act for the Governing of Negroes Barbados 1688If any person shall kill a slave stealing in his house or plantation by night the said slave refusing to submit himself such person shall not be liable to any damage or action for the same any law custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act for the Better Ordering of Slaves South Carolina 1690A citizen may arrest a person in the nighttime by efficient means as the darkness and the probability of escape render necessary even if the life of the person should be taken when the person(a) has committed a felony(b) has entered a dwelling house without express or implied permission(c) has broken or is breaking into an outhouse with a view to plunder(d) has in his possession stolen property or(e) being under circumstances which raise just suspicion of his design to steal or to commit some felonyflees when he is hailed. SC Code 17-13-20 (2012) South Carolina current statute
Cameron Rowland probability of escape 2020. Police car searchlight. Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Museum purchaseIf any poor small free-holder or other person kill a Negro or other Slave by Night out of the Road or Common Path and stealing or attempting to steal his Provision Swine or other Goods he shall not be accountable for it any Law Statute or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act for the Governing of Negroes Barbados 1688If any person shall kill a slave stealing in his house or plantation by night the said slave refusing to submit himself such person shall not be liable to any damage or action for the same any law custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act for the Better Ordering of Slaves South Carolina 1690A citizen may arrest a person in the nighttime by efficient means as the darkness and the probability of escape render necessary even if the life of the person should be taken when the person(a) has committed a felony(b) has entered a dwelling house without express or implied permission(c) has broken or is breaking into an outhouse with a view to plunder(d) has in his possession stolen property or(e) being under circumstances which raise just suspicion of his design to steal or to commit some felonyflees when he is hailed. SC Code 17-13-20 (2012) South Carolina current statute