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)

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

 * 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
 * , 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