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• 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)
• 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 (A. Pollock, Jr. ;, 1970), by Jacob D. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The law of freedom and bondage in the United States (Negro Universities Press, 1968), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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 Read Rootes 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 (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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