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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)
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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)
- 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
- 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.)
- 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
- Letter addressed to the Hon. John C. Calhoun, on the law relating to slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes, by a Virginian. (Washington, J. & G.S. Gideon, printers, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
- An essay upon the constitutional rights as to slave property. Republished from the "Southern literary messenger," for Feb. 1840. (Richmond, Printed by T. W. White, 1840), by Conway Robinson (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. (New York : 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. (Boston, 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 ... (New York, American and foreign anti-slavery society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Extracts from the American slave code. ([Philadelphia, 182-]), by Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Views of American constitutional law, in its bearing upon American slavery. (Utica, N.Y., Jackson & Chaplin, 1844), 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. (New York, 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. (Boston, J.P. Jewett and company; New York, Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman; [etc., etc.], 1854), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
- The early slave laws of Mississippi. ([Oxford? Miss., 1899?]), by Alfred Holt Stone (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. (Rochester, D. M. Dewey, [1854]) (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. By George M. Stroud. (Philadelphia : [H. Longstreth], 1856), by George M. Stroud (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... (Philadelphia: Printed for the Society, by Hall & Atkinson, 53, Market street, 1820), by Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
- A letter to the Hon. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, of St. John's Colleton; (Charleston, Observer office press, 1835), by Edward R. Laurens (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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
- Speech of Mr. Bayly of Accomack, on the bill to prevent citizens of New York from carrying slaves out of this commonwealth, and to prevent the escape of persons charged with the commission of any crime, and in reply to Mr. Scott of Fauquier, delivered in the House of delegates of Virginia, on the 25th and 26th of February 1841. Published by members of the Senate and House of delegates. (Richmond, Printed by Sheperd and Colin, 1841), by Bayly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Review of the debate [on the abolition of slavery] in the Virginia legislature of 1831 and 1832. (Richmond, Printed by T. W. White, 1832), by Thomas Roderick Dew (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, by Austin Steward. (Rochester, N.Y., Allings & Cory, 1861), by Austin Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
- ...Anti-slavery in Virginia; extracts from Thos. Jefferson, (Baltimore, J.F. Weishampel, 1865), by William Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
- Autobiography, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Norwich [Conn.] Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Notes on the proposed abolition of slavery in Virginia in 1785. By Albert Matthews ... (Cambridge [Mass.] John Wilson and Son, 1903), by Albert Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
- To the people of Virginia! : John Letcher and his antecedents : read and circulate. (Richmond : Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Autobiography, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Norwich [Conn.] Press of the Bulletin Co., 1882), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Address to the people of west Virginia; shewing that slavery is injurious to the public welfare, and that it may be gradually abolished without detriment to the rights and interests of slaveholders. By a slaveholder of west Virginia. (Lexington [Va.] Printed by R.C. Noel, 1847), by Henry Ruffner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Planters of colonial Virginia, (Princeton, Princeton university press; [etc., etc.], 1922), by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Review of the slave question, extracted from the American quarterly review, Dec. 1832; based on the speech of Th: Marshall, of Fauquier: showing that slavery is the essential hindrance to the prosperity of the slave-holding states; with particular reference to Virginia. (Richmond, Printed by T.W. White, 1833), by Jesse Burton Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession, by Beverley B. Munford (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Planters of Colonial Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (Gutenberg ebook)
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West, by Austin Steward (Gutenberg ebook)
- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by himself. ; Vol I[-II]. ; [Five lines from Isaiah] (New-York: : Printed and sold by W. Durell, at his book-store and printing-office, no. 19, Q. Street., M,DCC,XCI. [1791]), by Olaudah Equiano and Cornelius Tiebout (HTML at Evans TCP)
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