African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia
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Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes From Earliest Times to the Present (Richmond, VA: Whittet and Shepperson, 1936), by June Purcell Guild, contrib. by Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)
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- States' Laws on Race and Color; and Appendices Containing International Documents, Federal Laws and Regulations, Local Ordinances and Charts (Cincinnati: Woman's Division of Christian Service, Methodist Church, 1950), ed. by Pauli Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Legal Status of the Negro (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940), by Charles S. Mangum (page images at HathiTrust)
- Freedom to the Free: Century of Emancipation, 1863-1963 (Washington: GPO, 1963), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (PDF at maryland.edu)
- The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)
- The Barbarous Decision of the United States Supreme Court Declaring the Civil Rights Act Unconstitutional and Disrobing the Colored Race of All Civil Protection: The Most Cruel and Inhuman Verdict Against a Loyal People in the History of the World; Also the Powerful Speeches of Hon. Frederick Douglass and Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Jurist and Famous Orator (Atlanta: H. M. Turner, 1893), by Henry McNeal Turner, contrib. by United States Supreme Court, Frederick Douglass, and Robert Green Ingersoll (HTML with commentary at UNC)
- Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (c1919), by Emmett J. Scott
- The Jim Crow Car: or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race (Toronto: Hill Printing Co., 1898), by J. C. Coleman
- The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Oxford et al.: Hart Publishing, c2021), by Paul Gowder
- To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Judson MacLaury (PDF at Tennessee)
- Race and the Law in South Carolina: From Slavery to Jim Crow (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2023), by John Wertheimer (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
- Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey, Relative to The Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage (Burlington, NJ: Printed for "The New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," by I. Neale, 1794), by New Jersey Supreme Court, ed. by Joseph Bloomfield and New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
- National Black Law Journal (partial serial archives)
- The Case of Dred Scott in The United States Supreme Court: The Full Opinions of Chief Justice Taney And Justice Curtis, and Abstracts of the Opinions of the Other Judges; With an Analysis of the Points Ruled, and Some Concluding Observations (New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1857), by United States Supreme Court, contrib. by Roger Brooke Taney and Benjamin Robbins Curtis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Black Code of the District of Columbia, in Force September 1st, 1848 (New York: Published for the A. and F. Anti-Slavery Society, 1848), by Washington (D.C.), ed. by Worthington G. Snethen (multiple formats at Google)
- Unequal Access: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in Northern Virginia (Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Public Library, 2021), by Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre (PDF at fairfaxcounty.gov)
- Negro Life in Rural Virginia, 1865-1934 (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin #295; 1934), by William E. Garnett and John Malcus Ellison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes From Earliest Times to the Present (Richmond, VA: Whittet and Shepperson, 1936), by June Purcell Guild, contrib. by Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1926), by Arthur H. Estabrook and Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission Among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio (New York: Printed by J. C. Totten, 1827), by Joseph Mitchell
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (second edition, 1890), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: Containing a Collection of Certificates, Letters, &c. Written by Himself (second edition; Lynchburg, VA: C. M. Smith, 1855), by Christopher McPherson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Autobiography of Henry Parker (published sometime in the 1860s), by Henry Parker (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee, Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee (c1918), by William Mack Lee
- A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
- From Bondage They Came (New York: Vantage Press, c1954), by George Peter Crump (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Heroic Slave, by Frederick Douglass (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- The Heroic Slave (as it appeared in Autographs for Freedom; 1853), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The True Southerner (partial serial archives)
- A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: Containing a Collection of Certificates, Letters, &c. Written by Himself (second edition; Lynchburg, VA: C. M. Smith, 1855), by Christopher McPherson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography, by Robert Russa Moton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns
- Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown
- A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1977), by Raymond Gavins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher
- Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
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