In 1667, the English Parliament empowered enslavers to control the “wild, barbarous and savage nature” of enslaved Africans “with strict severity.” And in 1669, the personal physician of Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, one of the Lords Proprietor of the Province of Carolina, in his draft of the original Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, awarded the founding planters of the province “absolute power and authority” over enslaved Africans.
pissing me off
