Portal:Slavery in the United States

Law

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
• Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, 1820
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
  • Wisconsin's Declaration of Defiance
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, U.S. Supreme Court (1857)
  • Reaction
• 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

• 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

• 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

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
  • Reaction
• “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

• Poems on Slavery, Longfellow (1842)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe (1852)

Poetry

• "Man", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
• The Cross, by John Greenleaf Whittier

Encyclopedic articles

Fugitive slave laws

• "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)

See also

• Portal:Slavery
• Portal:Race studies