Portal:Slavery in the United States
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| Class F - American History | Slavery in the United States |
| 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. |
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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)
Practice [edit]
- Appeal to the Christian women of the South, Grimké (1836)
- Slavery a Positive Good, Calhoun (1837)
- The Bible Against Slavery, Weld (1838)
- The Barbarism of Slavery (1860)
- Brazilian and United States Slavery Compared, Alexander (1922)
- “Negroes Who Owned Slaves,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 81, November 1912
Biography [edit]
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, Turner (1831)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass (1845)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs (1861)
- Up From Slavery, Washington (1901)
Struggle [edit]
See also: Portal:American Civil War
- Petition against the Introduction of Slavery (1739)
- Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (1790)
- What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Douglass (1842)
- 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
