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• Carolinas and Georgia (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1896), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Press, 1899), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Senate bill, no. 8.) (Ses. 1860-'61 (John Spelman, Printer to the state, 1860), by North Carolina Senate and John Spelman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patrol Regulations for the County of Rowan: Printed by Order of the County Court, at August Term, Anno Domini 1825 (Salisbury, NC: P. White, 1825), by Rowan County (N.C.)
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• Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, in Favor of a Southern Convention (Jackson, MS: House of Delegates, 1860), by Mississippi Legislature (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Topics of jurisprudence connected with conditions of freedom and bondage. (D. Van Nostrand, 1856), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
• La traité et le droit international. (V. Giard & E. Brière, 1899), by Henry de Montardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution a pro-slavery compact; or, Extracts from the Madison papers, etc. (American anti-slavery Society, 1856), by Wendell Phillips, James Madison, and Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks by Samuel Hoar, of Massachusetts on the resolutions introduced by Mr. Jarvis, of Maine, and Mr. Wise, of Virginia : delivered in the House of Representatives, Thursday, January 21, 1836. (National Intelligencer Office, 1836), by Samuel Hoar, Henry A. Wise, Leonard Jarvis, D.C.) National Intelligencer Office (Washington, and United States. Congress 1835-1836). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• The position of John Bell and his supporters. : Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, at Myrick's, September 18, 1860. From the verbatim report in the Daily atlas and bee. (Published by the Bee Printing Co., nos. 7 & 9 State Street, Boston., 1860), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria analytica a'cerca do commercio d'escravos e a'cerca dos malles da escravidão domestica (Typographia commercial fluminense, 1837), by Federico Leopoldo Cezar Burlamaqui, F. L. C. B., and Sociedade Defensora da Liberdade e Independencia Nacional (Brazil) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unjust judge : a memorial of Roger Brooke Taney, late Chief Justice of the United States. (Baker & Godwin, 1865), by Andrew Dickson White and Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery pamphlet collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave trade, suppression of, etc. : general act between the United States of America and other powers for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into, and sale in, a certain defined zone of the African continent, of firearms, ammunition and spirituous liquors (s.n., 1892), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a General act, signed at Brussels, July 2, 1890, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States, and the other powers, for the repression of the African slave trade, etc. (Dept. of State, 1891), by United States Department of State and Benjamin Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several states of the United States of America : With some alterations and considerable additions ([Henry Longstreth], 1856), by George M. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplementary slavery convention ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1963), by United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Reply to the arguments of the Hon. A. H. Stephens, against the constitutional right to hold slaves in the territories of California and New Mexico (The Times Office, 1848), by John Henry Howard and John D. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kotmāi kao khō̜ng Krung Kamphūchā : laksana thāt kammakō̜n. (Rōngphim Nangsơ̄phim Thai, 1919), by Cambodia and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Remarks on the subject of the ownership of slaves (Printed by James E. Goode, 1863), by Robert R. Collier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated (London: Thomas Ward and Co., 1840), by Juan Francisco Manzano, trans. by Richard Robert Madden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Informe presentado por el Excmo. Sr. capitán general duque de la Torre al ministro de Ultramar en mayo de 1867. (Impr. de la Biblioteca Universal Económica, 1868), by Francisco Serrano y Domínguez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ley de 4 de julio de 1870 sobre abolición de la esclavitud y reglamento para su ejecución en las islas de Cuba y Puerto-Rico. (Habana, 1872), by Cuba (page images at HathiTrust)

• Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of Her Majesty's Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade (2 volumes; London: Printed for HMSO by Harrison and Sons, 1892), by Great Britain Admiralty
  • Volume I: page images at Florida
  • Volume II: page images at Florida
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Report of the Commissioners, Minutes of The Evidence, and Appendix, with General Index of Minutes of Evidence and Appendix (London: G. E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1876), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions : read at the general meeting of the Society held on the 25th day of June 1824, together with and account of the proceedings which took place at that meeting. (The Society :, 1824), by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence with the British Commissioners, at Sierra Leone, the Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam : relating to the slave trade, 1840 : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. (Printed by William Clowes, 1840), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence with the British Commissioners, at Sierra Leone, the Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam : relating to the slave trade, from January 1 to December 31, 1842, inclusive : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. (Printed by William Clowes, 1843), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A communication from Sir Charles Brisbane, K.C.B. governor of Saint Vincent : to the House of Assembly of that colony, dated 17th of August, 1826. Enclosing certain bills for meliorating the condition of, and for emancipating the slave population of the colonies: transmitted by the Earl Bathurst ... with the joint reply of the council and assembly thereto. (printed by Charles M. Willich, 1826), by 1809-1829 Saint Vincent. Governor, Charles Brisbane, Saint Vincent. House of Assembly, and Saint Vincent. Legislative Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of the principles of the slave registry bill, and of the means of emancipation proposed by the authors of the bill (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816), by G. W. Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The horrors of the Negro slavery existing in our West Indian islands: irrefragably demonstrated from official documents recently presented to the House of Commons (Gutenberg ebook)
• Considerations on the Negroe cause commonly so called: Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, lord chief justice of the Court of King's Bench, &c., by Samuel Estwick (Gutenberg ebook)

• Illinois legislation on slavery and free negroes 1818-1865 (1901), by M. M. Fishback (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Slave law of Jamaica: with proceedings and documents relative thereto. (J. Ridgway, 1828), by Jamaica (page images at HathiTrust)
• An abstract of the laws of Jamaica relating to slaves. (From 33 Charles II. [1681] to 59 George III. inclusive [1818]. With the slave law at length, also, an appendix, containing an abstract of the acts of Parliament relating to the abolition of the slave-trade. (Printed at the Office of the Saint Jago de la Vega Gazette, 1819), by John Lunan, Great Britain, and Jamaica (page images at HathiTrust)
• Code of laws for the government of the negro slaves in the island of Jamaica (Printed for B. White and Son, 1789), by Jamaica and Stephen Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Une colonie franc̜aise, en Louisiane. Essai historique (Geo. Muller, 1909), by Joseph Gabriel de Baroncelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Reply to the arguments of the Hon. A. H. Stephens, against the constitutional right to hold slaves in the territories of California and New Mexico (The Times Office, 1848), by John Henry Howard and John D. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slavery in New York, a historical sketch (University of the State of New York, 1900), by A. Judd Northrup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from revised statutes. (Published on behalf of the New York Manumission Society, by direction of the Standing Committee, 1830), by New York (State) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Opinions of several gentlemen of the law, on the subject of negro servitude, in the province of Nova-Scotia (Printed by John Ryan ..., 1802) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage : begun in the year 1774 and enlarged on the twenty-third of April 1787, to which are added the acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, for the gradual abolition of slavery (Printed by Joseph James, 1787), by Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ley de 4 de julio de 1870 sobre abolición de la esclavitud y reglamento para su ejecución en las islas de Cuba y Puerto-Rico. (Habana, 1872), by Cuba (page images at HathiTrust)

• The police control of the slave in South Carolina ([s.n.], 1914), by H. M. Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the laws of the United States & the State of South-Carolina now of force, relating to the militia : with an appendix, containing the patrol laws; the laws of the government of slaves and free persons of colour; the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Court of Appeals of South- Carolina therein; and an abstract from the rules and regulations of the United States' Army (A.E. Miller, Printer and Publisher, 1830), by Thomas D. Condy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slaven en vrijen onder de nederlandsche wet (J. Noman en Zoon, 1855), by W. R. van Hoëvell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kongl. Maj:ts nådiga kungörelse, angående påföljd för swenska fartyg, som emot förmodan begagnas till slafhandels drifwande : gifwen Stockholms Slott den 7 februarii 1823. (Tryckt i Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1823), by Sweden. Sovereign (1818-1844 : Charles XIV John), Carl David Skogman, and King of Sweden and Norway Charles XIV John (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
• Extracts From the American Slave Code (second edition; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society, ca. 1829) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Historical and Legal Examination of That Part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case, Which Declares the Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the Self-Extension of the Constitution to Territories, Carrying Slavery Along With It (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1858), by Thomas Hart Benton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America; To Which Is Prefixed An Historical Sketch of Slavery ("volume 1" only volume published; Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson; Savannah, GA: W. Thorne Williams, 1858), by Thomas R. R. Cobb (multiple formats at Google)
• A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America (Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1827), by George M. Stroud (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America (second edition; Philadelphia: H. Longstreth, 1856), by George M. Stroud (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Topics of Jurisprudence Connected with Conditions of Freedom and Bondage, by John C. Hurd (page images at MOA)
• Views of American Constitutional Law, in Its Bearing upon American Slavery (Utica, NY: Jackson and Chaplin, 1844), by William Goodell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Views of American Constitutional Law, in Its Bearing upon American Slavery (second edition; Utica, NY: Lawson and Chaplin, 1845), by William Goodell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitution A Pro-Slavery Compact: or, Selections From the Madison Papers, etc. (second edition, enlarged; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845), by Wendell Phillips, contrib. by James Madison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis of the Slave-Holding System in the United States, by Richard Hildreth (page images at MOA)
• The Negro Law of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: Printed by J. G. Bowman, 1848), ed. by John Belton O'Neall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rights and Duties of the United States Relative to Slavery Under the Laws of War, by David Lee Child (page images at MOA)
• Plantation Slavery in Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933), by Ralph Betts Flanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright on This Important Subject (Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbot and Loomis, 1860), ed. by E. N. Elliott, contrib. by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, United States Supreme Court, Charles Hodge, James Henry Hammond, William Harper, and Samuel A. Cartwright
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• Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports, by United States Senate (page images at MOA)
• Reclamation of Fugitives From Service: An Argument for the Defendant, Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at the December Term, 1846, in the Case of Wharton Jones vs. John Vanzandt (Cincinnati: Printed by R. P. Donogh and Co., 1847), by Salmon P. Chase
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• The American slave code in theory and practice : its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts (Clarke, Beeton, and co., 1853), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution expounded, respecting its bearing on the subject of slavery In two parts. Part. first. (Printed at 178 Fulton Street, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American slave code in theory and practice its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts. (American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• An argument on the unconstitutionality of slavery : embracing an abstract of the proceedings of the national and state conventions on this subject (Saxton & Peirce, 1841), by G. W. F. Mellen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution of the United States, with the acts of Congress, relating to slavery, embracing, the Constitution, the Fugitive slave act of 1793, the Missouri compromise act of 1820, the Fugitive slave law of 1850, and the Nebraska and Kansas bill, carefully compiled. (D. M. Dewey, 1854), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unconstitutionality of slavery. (B. Marsh, 1845), by Lysander Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several states of the United States of America (Published by Kimber and Sharpless, 1827), by George M. Stroud, Isaac Ashmead, and Kimber & Sharpless (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several states of the United States of America. (H. Longstreth, 1856), by George M. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotism in America an inquiry into the nature, results, and legal basis of the slave-holding system in the United States. (J. P. Jewett and company;, 1854), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topics of jurisprudence connected with conditions of freedom and bondage (D. Van Nostrand, 1856), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution a pro-slavery compact; or, Extracts from the Madison papers, etc. (American anti-slavery society, 1845), by Wendell Phillips and James Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the antislavery measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United States Congresses, 1861-64 (Walker, Fuller, and company, 1865), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rights and duties of the United States relative to slavery under the laws of war No military power to return any slave. "Contraband of war" inapplicable between the United States and their insurgent enemies. (R. F. Wallcut, 1861), by David Lee Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. B. F. Wade, of Ohio, on the state of the Union, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Dec. 17, 1860. (M'Gill & Witherow, printers, 1860), by B. F. Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Objections to the act of Congress, commonly called the Fugitive slave law answered, in a letter to Hon. Washington Hunt ... ([s.n.], 1850), by James A. Dorr and Washington Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford. (C. Wendell, 1857), by United States Supreme Court and Benjamin C. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred Scott decision (Published by the Congressional Republican Committee, 1860), by Israel Washburn and Republican Congressional Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States Constitution. (American Anti-Slavery Society, 1855), by William I. Bowditch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution a pro-slavery compact : selections from the Madison papers, &c. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Wendell Phillips and James Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in the constitutional history of the United States in the formative period, 1775-1789, by graduates and former members of the Johns Hopkins University (Houghton, Mifflin, 1960), by J. Franklin Jameson, Jeffrey R. Brackett, William P. Trent, Jay Caesar Guggenheimer, and Edward P. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in the constitutional history of the United States in the formative period, 1775-1789 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1889), by J. Franklin Jameson, Jeffrey R. Brackett, William P. Trent, Jay Caesar Guggenheimer, and Edward P. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American slave code in theory and practice : its distinctive features, shown by its statutes, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts. (Negro Universities Press, 1968), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro law of South Carolina (Printed by J.G. Bowman, 1848), by John Belton O'Neall and South Carolina. State Agricultural Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the antislavery measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-64. (Walker, Wise, 1864), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on the law of slavery : being a compilation of all the decisions made on that subject in the several courts of the United States and State courts, with copious notes and references to the statutes and other authorities, systematically arranged. (Negro Universities Press, 1968), by Jacob D. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the law of Negro slavery in the United States of America. To which is prefixed, an historical sketch of slavery. (T. & J. W. Johnson & co.;, 1858), by Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotism in America: an inquiry into the nature, results (J. P. Jewett and company;, 1854), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the law of Negro slavery in the United States of America. To which is prefixed, an historical sketch of slavery. Vol. I. (T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., 1858), by Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on the law of slavery. Being a compilation of all the decisions made on that subject, in the several courts of the United States, and state courts. With copious notes and references to the statutes and other authorities, systematically arranged. (A. Pollock, Jr;, 1837), by Jacob D. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the antislavery measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-1865 (Walker, Fuller, and Company, 1865), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constitutional and political history of the United States. (Callaghan and company, 1876), by H. Von Holst, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, Paul Shorey, Alfred Bishop Mason, and John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotism in America; or, An inquiry into the nature and results of the slave-holding system in the United States. (Anti-Slavery Society;, 1840), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the antislavery measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-64. (Walker, Wise, 1864), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the laws of the United States & the State of South-Carolina now of force, relating to the militia : with an appendix, containing the patrol laws; the laws of the government of slaves and free persons of colour; the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Court of Appeals of South- Carolina therein; and an abstract from the rules and regulations of the United States' Army (A.E. Miller, Printer and Publisher, 1830), by Thomas D. Condy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of freedom and bondage in the United States. (Little, Brown & Company;, 1858), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topics of jurisprudence connected with conditions of freedom and bondage. (D. Van Nostrand, 1856), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney (Van Evrie, Horton, 1863), by United States Supreme Court, Samuel A. Cartwright, John H. Van Evrie, Roger Brooke Taney, John F. A. Sanford, and Dred Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern slavery and the Christian religion (s.n., 1863), by George M. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several states of the United States of America. (H. Longstreth, 1856), by George M. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Hon. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, of St. John's Colleton (Observer office press, 1835), by Edward R. Laurens and Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the American slave code. ([Philadelphia, 1820), by Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay upon the constitutional rights as to slave property. Republished from the "Southern literary messenger," for Feb. 1840. (Printed by T. W. White, 1840), by Conway Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws of slavery ([H. Longstreth], 1856), by George M. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution a pro-slavery compact; or, Extracts from the Madison papers, etc. (American anti-slavery Society, 1856), by Wendell Phillips, James Madison, and Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution and act of incorporation of the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and for the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, and for the improving the condition of the African race. To which are added abstracts of the laws of the states of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, and of the acts of Congress, respecting slavery and the slave trade... (Printed for the Society, by Hall & Atkinson, 53, Market street, 1820), by Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views of American constitutional law, in its bearing upon American slavery. (Jackson & Chaplin, 1844), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter addressed to the Hon. John C. Calhoun, on the law relating to slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes (J. & G.S. Gideon, printers, 1845), by John C. Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constitutional duty of the federal government to abolish American slavery : an exposé of the position of the Abolition society of New-York city and vicinity. (Abolition soc. of New-York city, etc., 1855), by Abolition Society of New York City and Vicinity (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the antislavery measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-65. (Walker, Fuller, and company, 1865), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American slave code in theory and practice: its distinctive features shown by its statues, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts ... (American and foreign anti-slavery society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the friends of contitutional liberty, on the violation by the United States House of representatives of the right of petition. (American anti-slavery society, 1840), by American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despotism in America: an inquiry into the nature, results, and legal basis of the slave-holding system in the United States. (J.P. Jewett and company;, 1854), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early slave laws of Mississippi. ([Oxford? Miss., 1899), by Alfred Holt Stone and Mississippi Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution of the United States, with the acts of Congress, relating to slavery, embracing, the Constitution, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, the Missouri Compromise Act of 1820, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, carefully compiled. (D. M. Dewey, 1854), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on a passage in the opinion of Judge Daniel in Dred Scott's case (1857), by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digest of the laws relative to slaves and free people of colour in the State of Louisiana. (Louisiana Constitutional and Anti-Fanatical Society, 1835), by Louisiana, William Christy, and Louisiana Constitutional and Anti-Fanatical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in the territories (Wright & Potter, printers, 1861), by Joel Parker and Dred Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rights and duties of the United States relative to slavery under the laws of war : no military power to return any slave : "contraband of war" inapplicable between the United States and their insurgent enemies (R.F. Wallcut, 1861), by David Lee Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the law of Negro slavery in the United States of America. To which is prefixed, an historical sketch of slavery (T. & J. W. Johnson & co.;, 1858), by Thomas R. R. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States v. William C. Corrie : presentment for piracy (S.G. Courtenay & Co., 1860), by A. G. Magrath, James Conner, William C. Corrie, United States. District Court (South Carolina), and Wanderer (Ship) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in the constitutional history of the United States in the formative period, 1775-1789 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1889), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slavery code of the District of Columbia, together with notes and judicial decisions explanatory of the same. (L. Towers & co., printers, 1862), by United States, Washington (D.C.), Virginia, and Maryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the fugitive slave bill, -- the abolition of the slave-trade in th District of Columbia,--and the imprisonment of free colored seamen in the southern ports: with the speeches of Messrs. Davis, Winthrop and others. (Press of T. R. Marvin, 1850), by United States. Congress 1849-1850). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Chase's argument in defence of John Vanzandt, before the Supreme Court of the United States. (Printed by R. P. Donogh & Co., 1847), by Salmon P. Chase, Wharton Jones, and John Van Zandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The position of John Bell and his supporters. : Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, at Myrick's, September 18, 1860. From the verbatim report in the Daily atlas and bee. (Published by the Bee Printing Co., nos. 7 & 9 State Street, Boston., 1860), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution of the United States, with the acts of Congress, relating to slavery : embracing, the Constitution, the Fugitive slave act of 1793, the Missouri compromise act of 1820, the Fugitive slave law of 1850, and the Nebraska and Kansas bill, carefully compiled. (D. M. Dewey, 1854), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fugitive slave bill. (Printed and for sale at 145 Hanover street, 1854), by United States. Congress 1849-1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the antislavery measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-64. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Henry Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American slave code in theory and practice : its distinctive features shown by its statutes, judicial decisions, and illustrative facts ... (Clarke, Beeton, and co., 1853), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unjust judge : a memorial of Roger Brooke Taney, late Chief Justice of the United States. (Baker & Godwin, 1865), by Andrew Dickson White and Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery pamphlet collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from Francis Jackson. (s.n., 1844), by Francis Jackson and George N. Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views of American constitutional law : in its bearing upon American slavery (Lawson & Chaplin, 1845), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the Madison papers (American Anti-slavery Society, 1844), by James Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The declaration of sentiments and constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society; : together with all those parts of the Constitution of the United States which are supposed to have any relation to slavery. : [Four lines from the Declaration of Independence]. (Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 144 Nassau Street, New-York, 1835), by American Anti-Slavery Society, William S. Dorr, and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred Scott, (a colored man,) vs. John F.A. Sandford. : Argument of Montgomery Blair, of counsel for the plaintiff in error. (Gideon, printer, 511 Ninth street, Washington, D.C., 1856), by Montgomery Blair, Jacob Gideon, John F. A. Sanford, Dred Scott, and United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several states of the United States of America : With some alterations and considerable additions ([Henry Longstreth], 1856), by George M. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assessment of United States activities to combat trafficking in persons. (Dept. of Justice], 2003), by United States Department of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred Scott vs. John F.A. Sandford (D. Appleton & Co., 1857), by United States Supreme Court, Dred Scott, John F. A. Sanford, and Benjamin C. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the law of Negro slavery in the United States of America : to which is prefixed an historical sketch of slavery (T. & J.W. Johnson, 1858), by Thomas R. R. Cobb and Charles Doe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Report of the case of the Jeune Eugenie : determined in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the First Circuit, at Boston, December, 1821. With an appendix (Wells and Lilly, 1822), by William Powell Mason, United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), and Jeune Eugénie (Schooner) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of freedom and bondage in the United States. (Boston : Little, Brown & Company ; New York : D. Van Nostrand, 1852-62., 1852), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)

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