Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860
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Description: Collection of legal documents, pamphlets, and books concerning slavery, slaves, and abolition.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 Rare Book and Special Collections Division Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Of the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great Britain. Among the voices heard are those of some of the defendants and plaintiffs themselves as well as those of abolitionists, presidents, politicians, slave owners, fugitive and free territory slaves, lawyers and judges, and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Significant names include John Quincy Adams, Roger B. Taney, John C. Calhoun, Salmon P. Chase, Dred Scott, William H. Seward, Prudence Crandall, Theodore Parker, Jonathan Walker, Daniel Drayton, Castner Hanway, Francis Scott Key, William L. Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Denmark Vesey, and John Brown.
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| Page title: | Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 |
| Keywords: | united states america slavery trials pamphlets legal cases eighteenth century nineteenth century slavery courtroom slavery pamphlets united states america slave cases slave trials slave pamphlets slaves united states supreme court cases decisions slavery law abolitionists great britian slave cases slave code sermons |
| Description: | The documents in this collection from the Library of Congress describe trials and legal proceedings concerning slaves in free jurisdictions, fugitive slaves, slave revolts, the African slave trade, and abolitionists in the North and South |
| IP-address: | 140.147.249.5 |
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