23 January 2023
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1895 U.S. Atlas - Illinois (Wayback Machine)
Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.
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Amazon.com - Slavery & the Law 1st Edition
By Paul Finkelman (Editor).
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Avalon Project - Fugitive Slave Act 1850
From Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library
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Professional genealogist, TaMara Powell
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From the Constitutional Rights Foundation.
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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.
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Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records
By Walter B. Hill, Jr. for Prologue
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Personal Prologue: Family Roots and Personal Branches
Margo Lee Williams, a family historian writing about genealogy research and communities of color primarily in the Southeast, especially North Carolina.
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Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade
The following is information found in the records of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. For further insight, see Walter B. Hill Jr.'s Prologue article on the topic.
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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.
