Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery
Exploring the Essential Primary Sources
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The era of slavery in the United States is the subject of this scholarly 3-volume reference set. Covering some 250 years in the nation’s history, Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery includes 100 critical primary sources, from essays, speeches, and letters to government documents such as legislation and court opinions. In each case, the primary source is paired with in-depth commentary from numerous scholars and historians. Edited by acclaimed slavery scholar Paul Finkelman, Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery is an essential resource for anyone researching the development, features, and eventual abolition of slavery in the United States.
Description
The era of slavery in the United States is the subject of this scholarly 3-volume reference set. Covering some 250 years in the nation’s history, Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery includes 100 critical primary sources, from essays, speeches, and letters to government documents such as legislation and court opinions. In each case, the primary source is paired with in-depth commentary from numerous scholars and historians. Edited by acclaimed slavery scholar Paul Finkelman, Milestone Documents of U.S. Slavery is an essential resource for anyone researching the development, features, and eventual abolition of slavery in the United States.
Table of contents
COVER
Copyright Page
Contents
Reader’s Guide
Contributors
Introduction
Slavery in World History
Slavery in North America
VOLUME 1
John Rolfe’s Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys about Enslaved Africans
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Paragraphs 1–7
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 10
Paragraphs 11–23
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
This is to ye Monthly Meeting held at Richard Worrell’s
Monthly Meeting Response
Quarterly Meeting Response
Yearly Meeting Response
Samuel Sewall: The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial
James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Daniel Horsmanden: The New-York Conspiracy
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Introduction
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
SATURDAY, APRIL 4
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
MONDAY, APRIL 6
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
SATURDAY, APRIL 11
MONDAY, APRIL 13
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
Dockside At Virginia Tobacco Warehouse Illustration
Overview
Context
About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
“The General Disadvantage Which These Poor Africans Lie Under”
“Favours … Peculiar to One Nation”
“When Self-love Presides in Our Minds”
“This Seems to Contradict the Design of Providence”
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Slaves for Sale Advertisement
Overview
Context
About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
Thomas Jefferson: Advertisement for a Runaway Slave
Overview
Context
About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
A Proclamation
Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 5
Section 4 and Sections 6 to 14
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Document Text
Section 1.
Section 2.
Section 3.
Section 4.
Section 5.
Section 6.
Section 7.
Section 8.
Section 9.
Section 10.
Section 11.
Section 12.
Section 13.
Section 14.
Commonwealth v. Nathaniel Jennison
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
“Laws”
Manners
Audience
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Document Text
“Laws”
“Manners”
The Old Plantation Painting
Overview
Context
About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
Constitutional Convention: Debates on Slavery
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Tuesday, August 21
Wednesday, August 22.
Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Preamble
Representation
Slave Trade
Fugitive Slave Clause
Amendment Process
Other Clauses Affecting Slavery
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Preamble
Article I
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Article II
Section 1
Section 2
Section 4
Article III
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Article IV
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Article V
Article VI
Article VII
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Drawing of the Slave Ship Brookes
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Image
Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
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Document Text
The Manner in Which the Slaves Are Procured
Treatment of the Slaves
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Chap. VII. &—An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. (a)
Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
The Bible and the Declaration of Independence
The Problem of Slave Vengeance
Thomas Jefferson
Legitimizing Emancipation and Black Protest
Black Abolitionism
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Venture Smith: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Chapter II
Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Peter Williams, Jr.: “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
Impact
Document Text
Missouri Compromise
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
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Document Text
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom’s Journal Editorial
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
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Document Text
To Our Patrons
David Walker: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Preamble
Article I: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery
Article IV: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan
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Document Text
Preamble
Article I. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery
Article IV. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan.…
State v. Mann
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Document Text
William Lloyd Garrison: First Liberator Editorial
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Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Document Text
TO THE PUBLIC.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
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About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Document Text
“Jump Jim Crow” Song-and-Dance Routine
Overview
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About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Document Text
Chorus:
Joseph Story: “Privileges of Citizens—Fugitives—Slaves”
Overview
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About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
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Document Text
Lydia Maria Child: Thoughts on Slavery and Emancipation
Overview
Context
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Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Comparative View of Slavery, in Different Ages and Nations
Free Labor and Slave Labor: Possibility of Safe Emancipation
Slavery considered.—The right of man to hold his fellow-man in bondage.
James Buchanan: Remarks to Congress on Slavery
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About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Document Text
William Drayton: The South Vindicated from the Treason . . . of the Northern Abolitionists
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Wendell Phillips: “The Murder of Lovejoy”
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Document Text
John C. Calhoun: “Slavery a Positive Good”
Overview
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Document Text
United States v. Amistad
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Mr. Justice Story delivered the opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Baldwin dissented
VOLUME 2
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
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Joseph Story: Majority Opinion
Roger Taney: Concurrence
John McLean: Concurrence
Henry Highland Garnet: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Paragraphs 1–6
Paragraphs 7–11
Paragraphs 12–16
Paragraphs 17–21
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William Lloyd Garrison: “Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States”
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Context
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Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Document Text
Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
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Document Text
Richard Doyle: “The Land of Liberty” Cartoon
Overview
Context
About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Document Text
William Wells Brown: “Slavery as It Is”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
“My Subject for This Evening Is Slavery as It Is”
“The Influence of Slavery upon the Morals of the People”
“What Is Democracy?”
“The Tree of Liberty”
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Frederick Douglass: “Letter to My Old Master”
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Audience
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Document Text
Currier & Ives: “Congressional Scales” Cartoon
Overview
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About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
Compromise of 1850
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of Document
Henry Clay’s Resolutions of January 29, 1850
Act to Establish Texas’s Borders and a Territorial Government for New Mexico
Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union
Act to Establish a Territorial Government for Utah
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Act to Suppress the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia
Audience
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Henry Clay’s Resolutions of January 29, 1850
An Act proposing to the State of Texas the Establishment of her Northern and Western Boundaries, the Relinquishment by the said State of all Territory claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all her Claims upon the United States, and to establi
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An Act for the admission of the State of California into the Union
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An Act to establish a Territorial Government for Utah
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An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled “An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,” approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
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An Act to suppress the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia
SEC. 2.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Sections 1–3
Sections 4 and 5
Sections 6 and 7
Sections 8–10
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John C. Calhoun: “On the Slavery Question”
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Context
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Henry “Box” Brown: Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Overview
Context
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Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Introduction
Planning the Escape
The Escape
The Journey North
Freedom
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Chapter VII.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
Samuel A. Cartwright: “Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race”
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DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY.
DYSAETHESIA AETHIOPICA, OR HEBETUDE OF MIND AND OBTUSE SENSIBILITY OF BODY—A DISEASE PECULIAR TO NEGROES—CALLED BY OVERSEERS, “RASCALITY.”
Souther v. Commonwealth
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Charles Sumner: “Freedom National; Slavery Sectional” Speech
Overview
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Frederick Douglass: “Fourth of July” Speech
Overview
Context
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The Present
The Internal Slave Trade
Religious Liberty
The Church Responsible
Religion in England and Religion in America
The Constitution
Audience
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The Present
The Internal Slave Trade
Religious Liberty
The Church Responsible
Religion in England and Religion in America
The Constitution
Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, ... and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
Overview
Context
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Explanation and Analysis of the Document
“V. Means of Elevation”
“VI. The United States Our Country”
“XXIII. Things as They Are”
“XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves—Conclusion”
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V. Means of Elevation
VI. The United States Our Country
XXIII. Things as They Are
XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves—Conclusion
Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave
Overview
Context
About the Author
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
The Domestic Slave Trade: Slave Pen and Slave Auction
Slave Culture
Slave versus Master
Audience
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Document Text
Chapter VI.
Wendell Phillips: “The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement”
Overview
Context
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Context
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Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24
Section 25
Section 26
Section 27
Section 28
Section 29
Section 30
Section 31
Section 32
Section 33
Section 34
Section 35
Section 36
Section 37
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William J. Grayson: “The Hireling and the Slave”
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Part First.
Part II.
The Argument.
Part Second.
John L. Magee: “Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler” Cartoon
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About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
P.C. Weston: Rules on the Rice Estate
Overview
Context
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Duties of Officials
Miscellaneous Observations
Hinton Rowan Helper: The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
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Chapter I: Comparison between the Free and the Slave States
James Stirling: Letters from the Slave States
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Letter XVII
St. Augustine, Florida, 23rd February, 1857.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Mr. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the court.
VOLUME 3
“Picking Cotton, Georgia, 1858” Illustration
Overview
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About the Artist
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
Document Image
James Henry Hammond: “Cotton Is King” Speech
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Abraham Lincoln: “House Divided” Speech
Overview
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Thomas R.R. Cobb: An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America
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CHAPTER XI.
SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.—DECISIONS OF OUR OWN COURTS EXAMINED.
CHAPTER XVII.
OF OTHER DISABILITIES OF SLAVES.
CHAPTER XXII.
OF THE EFFECT OF MANUMISSION, AND HEREIN OF THE STATUS OF FREE PERSONS OF COLOR.
John Brown: Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States
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PREAMBLE
ARTICLE I
Qualifications for membership
ARTICLE II
Branches of government
Legislative
ARTICLE III
ARTICLE IV
Executive
ARTICLE V
Judicial
ARTICLE VI
Validity of enactments
ARTICLE VII
Commander-in-chief
ARTICLE VIII
Officers
ARTICLE IX
Secretary of War
ARTICLE X
Congress or House of Representatives
ARTICLE XI
Appropriation of money, &c.
ARTICLE XII
Special duties
ARTICLE XIII
Trial of President and Other Officers
ARTICLE XIV
Trial of members of Congress
ARTICLE XV
Impeachment of Judges
ARTICLE XVI
Duties of President and Secretary of State
ARTICLE XVII
Further duties
ARTICLE XVII
Duty of the President
ARTICLE XIX
Duty of President, continued
ARTICLE XX
The Vice-President
ARTICLE XXI
Vacancies
ARTICLE XXII
Punishment of crimes
ARTICLE XXIII
Army appointments
ARTICLE XXIV
Courts-martial
ARTICLE XXV
Salaries
ARTICLE XXVI
Treaties of peace
ARTICLE XXVII
Duty of the military
ARTICLE XXVIII
Property
ARTICLE XXIX
Safety or intelligence fund
ARTICLE XXX
The Commander-in-chief and the treasury
ARTICLE XXXI
Surplus of the safety or intelligence fund
ARTICLE XXXII
Prisoners
ARTICLE XXXIII
Voluntaries
ARTICLE XXXIV
Neutrals
ARTICLE XXXV
No needless waste
ARTICLE XXXVI
Property confiscated
ARTICLE XXXVII
Desertion
ARTICLE XXXVIII
Violation of parole of honor
ARTICLE XXXIX
All must labor
ARTICLE XL
Irregularities
ARTICLE XLI
Crimes
ARTICLE XLII
The marriage relation, schools, the Sabbath
ARTICLE XLIII
Carry arms openly
ARTICLE XLIV
No person to carry concealed weapons
ARTICLE XLV
Persons to be seized
ARTICLE XLVI
These articles not for the overthrow of government
ARTICLE XLVII
No plurality of offices
ARTICLE XLVIII
Oath
Schedule
Ableman v. Booth
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Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the Court
Wendell Phillips: “The Puritan Principle and John Brown”
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Brigham Young: Sermon on Race and Slavery
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Charles Langston: Speech in Oberlin-Wellington Trial
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Cleveland, May 12, 1859
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
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Virginia Slave Code
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Title 10
Chapter XVII
Title 11
Chapter XXII
Title 16
Chapter L
Title 28
Chapter XCVIII
Title 30
Chapter CV
Chapter CVII
Title 54
Chapter CXC
Chapter CXCII
Chapter CXCVIII
Chapter CC
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Chapter XVII …
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Chapter L …
Title 28 …
Chapter XCVIII …
Title 30 …
Chapter CV …
Chapter CVII …
Title 54 …
Chapter CXC …
Chapter CXCII …
Chapter CXCVIII …
Chapter CC …
Lydia Maria Child: Correspondence with Mrs. Mason on John Brown
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REPLY OF JOHN BROWN
LETTER OF MRS. MASON.
REPLY OF MRS. CHILD.
South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession
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Confederate Constitution
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Preamble
Article I
ARTICLE II
ARTICLE III
ARTICLE IV
ARTICLE V
ARTICLE VI
ARTICLE VII
Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom
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Chapter IV: The Exceptional Large Planters
Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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XL: The Fugitive Slave Law
Alexander Stephens: Cornerstone Speech
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Thornton Stringfellow: Slavery: Considered in the Light of Bible Teachings
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SLAVERY AND GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER I.
David Einhorn: Response to “Bible View of Slavery”
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District of Columbia: An Act for the Release of Certain Persons Held to Service or Labor
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An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia
Frederick Douglass: “The Reasons for Our Troubles”
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Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
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ARTICLE I
ARTICLE II
ARTICLE III
ARTICLE IV
ARTICLE V
ARTICLE VI
ARTICLE VII
ARTICLE VIII
ARTICLE IX
ARTICLE X
ARTICLE XI
ARTICLE XII
Emancipation Proclamation
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Frances Ann Kemble: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
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“The Scourged Back” Photograph
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Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
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War Department General Order 143 Establishing the Bureau of U.S. Colored Troops
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Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
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“Headquarters 10th Army Corps; Ten Miles from Richmond, August 18, 1864”
“Headquarters 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 18th Army Corps; Before Petersburg, August 22, 1864”
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Headquarters 10th Army Corps; Ten Miles from Richmond, August 18, 1864
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Flag of Truce
Stripping the Union Dead
The Enemy Repulsed
Slave Manacles
Headquarters 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 18th Army Corps; Before Petersburg, August 22, 1864
The Enemy Moving to the Left
The Attack
William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15
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Photograph of the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry
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Black Code of Mississippi
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An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for Other Purposes
An Act to Regulate the Relation of Master and Apprentice, as Relates to Freedmen, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes
An Act to Amend the Vagrant Laws of the State
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An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for other Purposes
An Act to Regulate the Relation of Master and Apprentice, as Relates to Freedmen, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes
An Act to Amend the Vagrant Laws of the State
Gordon Granger: General Order No. 3
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Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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AMENDMENT XIII
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William Lloyd Garrison: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator
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Thomas Garrett: Description of Harriet Tubman
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Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Article XV.
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