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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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Black code of Illinois (Internet Archive)
by Eastman, Zebina
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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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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.
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Statutes on Slavery: The Pamphlet Literature. 2 Vols. (Amazon.com)
By Paul Finkelman
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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.
