Quartering - The Penalty for Slave Insurrection In Colonial Maryland

34.  Any Negro, or other Slave, convict of Petit-Treason, Murder, or wilfully burning of Dwelling-houses, shall have Judgment to have the Right Hand cut off, to be hanged, quartered, and the Head and Quarters set up in the most public Places of the County.
1729, ch. 4, §. 1. [1]






[1] Bacon's Laws of Maryland. Maryland Archives. http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000075/pdf/am75--690.pdf