Portal:Slavery in the United States
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Slavery existed in the United States as a legal institution prior to the country's foundation until the passage of the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
Law
[edit]- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, 1820
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Dred Scott v. Sandford, U.S. Supreme Court (1857)
- Corwin Amendment (1861)
- Supported by Lincoln in his first inaugural address
- The Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln (1862)
- Circular No. 3591 (1941)
- Putting a Stop to Modern-Day Slavery (2010) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Practice
[edit]- Appeal to the Christian women of the South, Grimké (1836)
- Slavery a Positive Good, Calhoun (1837)
- The Bible Against Slavery, Weld (1838)
- Non-Slaveholding Whites! Look Well to Your Interests! (1857)
- The Barbarism of Slavery (1860)
- First Anniversary of the Kidnapping of Thomas Sims by the City of Boston (1862)
- Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation, (1863) Fanny Kemble
- Brazilian and United States Slavery Compared, Alexander (1922)
- "Negroes Who Owned Slaves" in Popular Science Monthly, 81 (November 1912)
Biography
[edit]- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself, 1798 by Venture Smith
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 by Nat Turner
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845 by Frederick Douglass
- Twelve Years a Slave, 1853 by Solomon Northup
- My Bondage and My Freedom 1855 by Frederick Douglass
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Up From Slavery, 1901 by Booker T. Washington
Struggle
[edit]See also: Portal:American Civil War
- Petition against the Introduction of Slavery (1739)
- African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine (1775)
- Petition To The New Hampshire Government (1779)
- Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (1790)
- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Douglass (1842)
- The North Star (1847–1851)
- The Slave Struggle in America by Hypatia Bradlaugh (c. 1880)
- John Brown
- “The Negro Question,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 1, April 1876, brief section on the treatment of escaped slaves as prisoners of war during the Civil War.
Fiction
[edit]- Poems on Slavery, Longfellow (1842)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe (1852)
Poetry
[edit]- "Man", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
- The Cross, by John Greenleaf Whittier
Encyclopedic articles
[edit]Fugitive slave laws
[edit]- "Fugitive," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Fugitive Slave Laws," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Fugitive Slave Law," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Fugitive-Slave Laws, The," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)