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==Online Resources== | ==Online Resources== | ||
*'''1501-1875''' [https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/database Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Database] at SlaveVoyages - Index. | |||
*'''1775-1867''' [https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/ Race and Slavery Petitions] at Digital Library on American Slavery - index; court records regarding enslaved peoples; covers 15 slaveholding states | *'''1775-1867''' [https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/ Race and Slavery Petitions] at Digital Library on American Slavery - index; court records regarding enslaved peoples; covers 15 slaveholding states | ||
*[https://enslaved.org/ Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade] - includes records of those enslaved, including court records, and links to relevant databases and projects documenting individuals | |||
*[https://home.heinonline.org/content/slavery-in-america-and-the-world/ Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law] at HeinOnline - available through public libraries; lists all colony, state and federal statutes related to slavery in the U.S. including cases regarding slavery | |||
*[https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/lantern/ The Lantern Project (Legal Records Documenting Enslaved Persons)] at Mississippi State University Libraries — index & images | |||
==Court Records== | ==Court Records== | ||
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Enslaved persons and slaveholders were often in court suing over mistreatment, neglect, petitions for freedom, "fugitive slave" returns, and the like. | Enslaved persons and slaveholders were often in court suing over mistreatment, neglect, petitions for freedom, "fugitive slave" returns, and the like. | ||
State Government Records Petitions can be a source of genealogical information. Some African Americans petitioned their state, asking for special help. | State Government Records Petitions can be a source of genealogical information. Some African Americans petitioned their state, asking for special help. For example, a law was passed in the Republic of Texas in 1840, requiring all free Blacks to leave by 1842. Some Blacks petitioned the Republic and were allowed to stay. | ||
The [http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/ Digital Library on American Slavery] provides information about the enslaved, slaveholders, and Free People of Color. This website provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and county courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia. This is a free resource provided from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro library. | The [http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/ Digital Library on American Slavery] provides information about the enslaved, slaveholders, and Free People of Color. This website provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and county courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia. This is a free resource provided from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro library. | ||
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The Library of Congress has a collection called [https://www.loc.gov/collections/slavery-and-the-judiciary-from-1740-to-1860/about-this-collection/ Slavery and the Judiciary, 1740 to 1860]. | The Library of Congress has a collection called [https://www.loc.gov/collections/slavery-and-the-judiciary-from-1740-to-1860/about-this-collection/ Slavery and the Judiciary, 1740 to 1860]. | ||
The book | The book ''State Slavery Statutes: Guide to the Microfiche Collection'': {{FSC|744709|item|disp= FS Catalog book 975 F23s}}, by Paul Finkelman, includes an index by subjects, names and geographic locations. State slavery statutes for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. | ||
The FamilySearch Library has the 354 microfiche collection of {{FSC|723107|item|disp=State Slavery Statutes}}, typescript original records created by the General Assembles of the states. The records are the acts of laws. Published by University Publications of America. | The FamilySearch Library has the 354 microfiche collection of {{FSC|723107|item|disp=State Slavery Statutes}}, typescript original records created by the General Assembles of the states. The records are the acts of laws. Published by University Publications of America. | ||
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===Judicial Cases=== | ===Judicial Cases=== | ||
* | *''Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro,'' by Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, ed., five volumes. Reprint of the 1926 edition published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. New York, New York, Negro Universities Press, 1968. {{FSC|29628|item|disp=FS Catalog book 973 F2aca v. 1-5 and digital versions.}} | ||
===Registers of Enslaved Persons, Registers of Freedmen, and Manumission Papers=== | ===Registers of Enslaved Persons, Registers of Freedmen, and Manumission Papers=== | ||
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The Constitution allowed the outlawing of the importation of enslaved persons to the United States after 1808. Between then and the Civil War the internal slave trade became an important business in the Southern United States. Most states regulated the slave trade. A few kept records of slave traders and their business. Look for such business registers at state libraries, archives, historical societies, or county courthouses. | The Constitution allowed the outlawing of the importation of enslaved persons to the United States after 1808. Between then and the Civil War the internal slave trade became an important business in the Southern United States. Most states regulated the slave trade. A few kept records of slave traders and their business. Look for such business registers at state libraries, archives, historical societies, or county courthouses. | ||
Some registers, and other related data may be found on | Some registers, and other related data may be found on the following website about the slave trade throughout Europe and the Western Hemisphere. | ||
*'''1501-1875''' [https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/database Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Database] at SlaveVoyages - Index. | |||
[[Category:African American Records]][[Category:Court Records]] | [[Category:African American Records]][[Category:Court Records]] | ||