Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Virginia
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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)
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Filed under: Slavery -- Law and legislation- 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)
- 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)
- An Argument in The Case of James Sommersett, a Negro, Lately Determined by The Court of King's Bench: Wherein It Is Attempted To Demonstrate The Present Unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England; To Which is Prefixed a State of The Case: By Mr. Hargrave, One of the Counsel for the Negro (London: Printed for the author, 1772), by Francis Hargrave (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
- 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)
- Case of The Slave Isaac Brown: An Outrage Exposed (ca. 1847) (page images and text at Library of Congress)
- Case of The Slave-Child, Med: Report of the Arguments of Counsel, and of the Opinion of the Court in the Case of Commonwealth vs. Aves, Tried and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (Boston: I. Knapp, 1836), contrib. by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- 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
- Case of Passmore Williamson: Report of the Proceedings on the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Issued by the Hon. John K. Kane, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the Case of the United States of America Ex Rel. John H. Wheeler vs. Passmore Williamson, Including the Several Opinions Delivered; and the Arguments of Counsel, Reported by Arthur Cannon, Esq., Phonographer (Philadelphia: U. Hunt and Son, 1856), ed. by Arthur Cannon, contrib. by United States District Court, Pennsylvania Eastern District and John H. Wheeler
- 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 Read Rootes 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
- 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
- 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)
- A Lei do Ventre Livre (Ensaio de Historia Parlamentar) (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1917), by Evaristo de Morais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Dissertation on Slavery, With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It in the State of Virginia (reprint, New York, 1861), by St. George Tucker
- The Speech of John A. Chandler (of Norfolk County,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State With Respect to Her Slave Population (Richmond, VA: T. W. White, printer, 1832), by John A. Chandler
- George Washington and the Negro (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1932), by Walter H. Mazyck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War, by Thomas Nelson Page (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party (New York: E. J. Hale and Co., 1867), by Robert Lewis Dabney
- Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The End of an Era, by John S. Wise (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
- A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (second edition; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
- 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)
- Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
- 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)
- Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade in the United States, in a Series of Letters Addressed to the Executive Committee of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836), by E. A. Andrews, contrib. by American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (page images at HathiTrust)
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
- Jamie Parker, the Fugitive (Hartford: Brockett, Fuller and Co., 1851), by Emily C. Pearson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Bond and Free: A Tale of the South (Indianapolis: C. B. Ingraham, 1882), by Grace Lintner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- 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 Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore (2 volumes; J. H. Eastburn, 1836), by Richard Hildreth
- The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852), by Richard Hildreth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
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