Portal: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.
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)