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African American History and Culture to 1860 (1865)

This guide is designed to support students in HIST 251 with Melanie Chambliss for Fall 2020

Civil Records, Laws, and Courts

American Slavery Documents
Contains an assortment of legal and personal documents related to slavery in the United States including court documents.
American Slavery, Civil Records
Freedom Papers | Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Long Road to Justice: The African American Experience in the Massachusetts Courts
O Say Can You See | Early Washington, D.C.. Law and Family
Documents the challenge to slavery and the quest for freedom in early Washington, D.C., by collecting, digitizing, making accessible, and analyzing freedom suits filed between 1800 and 1862.
Race and Slavery Petitions Project
The Revised Dred Scott Case Collection
Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860
Slavery and the US Supreme Court: The Amistad Case

American slave code in theory and practice: its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts. by William Goodell
Publication Date: 1853