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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. | ||