Wikisource:Slavery
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[edit] Source documents on slavery
- Philemon by Paul of Tarsus (apostle)
- On Benefits[1], Book III, chapters 18-25, 62 AD by Seneca
- Of the Power of Masters[1], chapter 22 of The Elements of Law, 1640 by Thomas Hobbes
- Memorial Against Slaveholding, 1688 by Francis Daniel Pastorius et. al.
- The Selling of Joseph, 1700 by Samuel Sewall
- Petition against the Introduction of Slavery, 1739
- Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, 1790 by Benjamin Franklin
- Upper Canadian Act Against Slavery, 1793
- History of the United States 1801-09 during the Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson, Volume I, Chapter 15, 1807, Account of the U.S. Congressional Debate on the bill that became the law abolishing the international importation of slaves to the United States (history published 1890 by Henry Adams).
- Gen. Jackson's Negro Speculations, and his Traffic in Human Flesh, Examined and Established by Positive Proof, 1828 by Andrew Erwin
- Slavery a Positive Good, 1837 by John C. Calhoun
- Civil Disobedience[1], 1849 by Henry David Thoreau
- Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 Act
- Three Years in Europe, 1852 by William Wells Brown
- The Barbarism of Slavery, 1860 speech
- Corwin Amendment, 1861 proposed constitutional amendment
- The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 by Abraham Lincoln
 Slave sale poster, 1829, St. Helena |
 Slave sale poster, 1840. New Orleans |
[edit] Texts written by slaves and former slaves
[edit] Fictional accounts of slavery
 Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 |
- Poems on Slavery, 1842 by Henry Longfellow
- Dead Souls[1], 1842 by Nikolai Gogol
- Poor Folk[1], 1846 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
