Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Governor Giles” in chapter 88 of Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child:

...d our resolution to live free or die, we imposed on our fellow-men of different complexion a slavery ten thousand times worse than the utmost extremity of the oppressions of which we complained. Governor Giles , in a message to the Legislature of Virginia, referring to the custom of selling free colored people into slavery, as a punishment for offences not capital, said: Slavery must be admitted to be a pun...
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