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Amazon.com - Slavery & the Law 1st Edition

By Paul Finkelman (Editor).

Amazon.com - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By Richard Rothstein.

Avalon Project - Fugitive Slave Act 1850

From Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library

Black Codes (United States) (WikiTree) ^FREE

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 (Wikipedia)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (Wikipedia)

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

From the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

Library of Congress - Digital Collections - Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860

This collection consists of 105 library books and manuscripts, totalling approximately 8,700 pages drawn principally from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, with a few from the General Collections. The selection was guided in large part by the entries in Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases by Paul Finkelman (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1985), which was based on research in the Library collections. The documents comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.

Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records

By Walter B. Hill, Jr. for Prologue

Radical Antislavery and Personal Liberty Laws in Antebellum Ohio, 1803-1857

A dissertation by Hur, Hyun at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Slave Law in Colonial Virginia: A Timeline

Slave Trade Act 1807 (Wikipedia)

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law

Research the history of slavery in America and the world with this award-winning HeinOnline collection. Discover a multitude of essential legal and historical materials relating to the institution of slavery.

Slavery Law & Power in Early America and the British Empire

Slavery, race and the American legal system 1700-1872 : a sixteen-volume facsimile series reproducing over one hundred and seventy rare and important pamphlets.

By Paul Finkelman.

Statutes on Slavery: The Pamphlet Literature. 2 Vols. (Amazon.com)

By Paul Finkelman

The Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves

Between statehood and the end of the Civil War, the Alabama Supreme Court rendered numerous decisions on slavery. Most of them pertained to slaves as property, for property they were. Nevertheless, the law recognized slaves as persons under some circumstances, most notably when they were victims or perpetrators of crimes. These notes on decisions, arranged in topical order, reflect the variety of legal issues regarding slaves.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Amazon.com)

By Richard Rothstein

The Law of Slavery in New Jersey: An Annotated Bibliography (Wayback Machine)

The Virginia Slave Code of 1705