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Contents 1 Source documents on slavery 2 Texts written by slaves and former slaves 3 Fictional accounts of slavery 4 Reference

[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
• 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
• 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

• In re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation, 2005

[edit] Texts written by slaves and former slaves

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

• The works of Frederick Douglass
• The works of Booker T. Washington

[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

[edit] Reference

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} from "additional readings" bibliographical list of chapter 87: Slavery. Hutchins, Robert Maynard, ed. Great Books of the Western World, vol. 3, The Great Ideas, Adler, Mortimer Jerome, ed. (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952) p. 790