Category Archives: Legislation and Legal Cases on Race and Slavery
21-1 H.R. 433 (1829-1831)
36 H.R. 64 (1859-1861)
36 H.R. 957 (1859-1861)
36 S. 537 (1859-1861)
37 H.R. 106 (1861-1863)
37 H.R. 374
37 H.R. 634 (1861-1863)
37 S. 216 (1861-1863)
37 S. 252 (1861-1863)
37 S. 28 (1861-1863)
37 S. 331 (1861-1863)
37 S. 78 (1861-1863)
38 H.R. 12
38 H.R. 51 (1863-1865)
38 H.R. 512 (1863-1865)
38 H.R. 698 (1863-1865)
38 S. 123 (1863-1865)
38 S. 128 (1863-1865)
38 S. 141 (1863-1865)
38 S. 159 (1863-1865)
38 S. 188 (1863-1865)
38 S. 227 (1863-1865)
38 S. 443 (1863-1865)
38 S. 63 (1863-1865)
38 S. 99 (1863-1865)
39 H.R. 63 (1865-1867)
39 S. 55 (1865-1867)
39 S. 6 (1865-1867)
Ableman v. Booth: Brief for the United States
African colonization — Slave trade — Commerce. Report of Mr. Kennedy, of Maryland, from the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives of the United States, on the memorial of the Friends of African Colonization, assembled in convention in the City of Washington, May, 1842. To which is appended, a collection of the most interesting papers on the subject of African colonization, and the commerce, etc., of Western Africa, together with all the diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain, on the subject of the African slave trade.
African slave trade.
African slave-trade.
Africans in Fort Monroe Military District. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to resolution of the House, transmitting a report of Major General Wool, on the number, age, and condition of the Africans in his district.
Amendment to Constitution on compensation for emancipation of slaves
American diplomatic code, embracing collection of treaties and conventions between U.S. and foreign powers from 1778-1834, with abstract of important judicial decisions on points connected with our foreign relations; also, concise diplomatic manual, containing summary of law of nations from works of Wicquet, Vattel, Martens, Ward, Kent, Story, etc., and other diplomatic writings on questions of international law useful for public ministers and consuls and for all others having official or commercial intercourse with foreign nations; in 2 volumes: Vol. 2, with notes and indexes
An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters
An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters
An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled “An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,” approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled “An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,” approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing, with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories
An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes
An Act to secure Freedom to all Persons within the Territories of the United States
An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes
An Address: to the Anti-Slavery Christians of the United States
An Unexpected Result of the Dred Scott Decision.
Application to prohibit the importation of slaves into the Territory of Louisiana.
Appropriation — Slave trade.
Archibald Jackson.
Archibald Jackson.
Art. I.–Opinion of Judge Daniel, in the Case of Dred Scott.
Article 4 — No Title
Circuit Court of The United States, for the District of Massachusetts: November, 1851. United States v. Robert Morris. The right of the jury to judge of the law.
Collection of laws of U.S. relating to revenue, navigation and commerce, and light-houses, etc., up to Mar. 4, 1843, including treaties with foreign powers
Collection of laws of U.S. relating to revenue, navigation and commerce, and light-houses, etc., up to Mar. 4, 1843, including treaties with foreign powers
Colonization of free blacks. Memorial of Leonard Dugged, George A. Bailey, and 240 other free colored persons of California, praying Congress to provide means for their colonization to some country in which their color will not be a badge of degradation.
Colonization of free people of colour.
Decision in the Dred Scott Case
Decision of Judge Smith: The Fugitive Slave Act Declared Unconstitutional.
Decision of the Supreme Court in the Case of Dred Scott.
Decision of the Supreme Court in the Case of Dred Scott.
Declaring the objects of the war and the purposes of the President in regard to slavery, enjoining obedience to certain acts of Congress and announcing the President’s intention to recommend compensation to loyal persons for the loss of slaves. September 22, 1862
Deficiencies of appropriation for suppression of slave trade. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating estimates for deficiencies in the appropriation for the suppression of the slave trade, &c.
Digest of opinions of Judge Advocate General of Army
Digest of treaties and statutes of U.S. relating to commerce, navigation, and revenue [with summaries of related judicial decisions]
Digest of treaties and statutes of U.S. relating to commerce, navigation, and revenue [with summaries of related judicial decisions]
Diplomatic code of U.S.A., embracing collection of treaties and conventions between U.S. and foreign powers, from year 1778-1827, with index to principal cases decided in courts of U.S. upon points connected with their foreign relations; and various official acts, papers, and useful information, for public ministers and consuls; to which is annexed, extracts from treaties and conventions, at present subsisting between Great Britain, France, Spain, etc., chiefly intended to elucidate policy pursued towards America, about period of late general pacification in Europe
Dissensions between the North and South. Petition of the Committee of Thirty-Three, appointed at the workingmen’s mass meeting, held in Philadelphia, in Independence Square, Saturday evening, January 26, 1861.
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 1
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 3
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 4
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 5
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 6
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 7
Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 8
Documents accompanying the President’s message at the commencement of the third session of the Twenty-seventh Congress. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a treaty with Great Britain.
Don Juan Madrazo.
Don Juan Madrazo.
Dr. Henry Perrine — tropical plants.
Elliott Woodbury and Ezra Foster.
Emancipation and colonization. (to accompany bill H.R. no. 576.).
Emancipation in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 11th of January, transmitting the report and tabular statements of the commissioners appointed in relation to emancipated slaves in the District of Columbia.
Emancipation of the slaves of rebels. (to accompany bill H.R. no. 472.).
Extension of the right of suffrage, and the admission of slavery, for a limited time, in the Indiana Territory, and the division thereof.
Free colored seamen — majority and minority reports.
Free Negroes — District of Columbia.
Fremont Fully Sustained
Friends’ Intelligencer: The Case of Dred Scott.
Fugitive Slave Act. Resolves of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Fugitive Slave Narrative
Important Law Case.
Important Proclamation by Gen. Fremont.
In favor of allowing bounty land to the owner of a slave who was a soldier in the Army.
In relation to captured Africans. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th instant, requesting information as to contracts for returning and subsistence of captured Africans.
In Senate of the United States.
Joint Resolution declaring that the United States ought to cooperate with, affording pecuniary Aid to any State which may adopt the gradual Abolishment of Slavery
Joint resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to slavery and the admission of Kansas into the Union.
Journal of the Committee of Thirty-Three. Disturbed condition of the country. Pt 2
Judge Douglas Repudiates the Dred Scott Decision.
Kansas affairs.
Kansas and Nebraska Act. Resolutions of the legislature of Arkansas, approving the Kansas and Nebraska Act, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
Kansas claims. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 1017.)
Laws of U.S. in relation to naval establishment and Marine Corps, collected and arranged by order of Secretary of Navy, from laws of U.S., to end of 1st session of 19th Congress [with handwritten continuation through Mar. 3, 1827]
Laws of U.S. in relation to Navy and Marine Corps; to close of 2nd session of 26th Congress, together with acts and resolutions of Congress granting medals, swords, and votes of thanks, or having reference to special objects; also, private acts, for relief of individuals, alphabetically arranged; and table of appropriations and expenditures for naval service, from 1791 to 1840, both years inclusive, to which are prefixed Constitution of U.S., and synopsis of legislation of Congress respecting naval affairs during Revolutionary War
Laws of U.S. in relation to Navy and Marine Corps; to close of 2nd session of 26th Congress, together with acts and resolutions of Congress granting medals, swords, and votes of thanks, or having reference to special objects; also, private acts, for relief of individuals, alphabetically arranged; and table of appropriations and expenditures for naval service, from 1791 to 1840, both years inclusive, to which are prefixed Constitution of U.S., and synopsis of legislation of Congress respecting naval affairs during Revolutionary War, with appendix containing laws passed at 27th Congress
Laws relating to Navy and Marine Corps, and Navy Department, July 1, 1865 [with resolutions of Congress, and text of Constitution]
Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting copies of the depositions of Gilbert C. Russel and Francis W. Armstrong, in relation to the cargoes of the slave ships Constitution, Louisa and Marino, etc., rendered in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of 5th inst.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the instructions which have been issued to naval commanders upon the subject of the importation of slaves, made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the fourth January, instant.
Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of 27th day of March, 1862, in relation to the slave vessel the “Bark Augusta.”.
Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating an answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, information in relation to the roles as such of the regiments as have been raised in the State of Maryland in the present war which were composed in whole or in part of those who were at the time of their enlistment or draft slaves.
Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 3d, instant, in reference to the sale into slavery of colored freemen captured by the rebels.
Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 4th ultimo, copies of all instructions given to commanding generals in pursuance of the acts of Congress approved August 6, 1861, setting free slaves who have been employed, by the consent of their masters, against the government of the United States.
Liberated Africans. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, in answer to the resolution of the House of the 19th ultimo, transmitting reports from Agent Seys in relation to care of liberated Africans.
Lieutenant Isaac McKeever
Mass Convention Against the Fugitive Slave Law: Declare
Massachusetts, citizens of — slavery. Memorial of citizens of Edgartown upon the subject of slavery, particularly in the District of Columbia.
Memorial of a number of citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse to any legislation on the part of Congress, on the subject of slavery in said district.
Memorial of Anthony M. Dignowitz, of San Antonio, Texas, praying the military occupation of Texas, with a view of protecting loyal citizens.
Memorial of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the enactment of a law that all colored children born in the District of Columbia after a certain day shall be free.
Memorial of H. D. Johnson, Delegate from the Territory of Nebraska, claiming for the people of that Territory the right to legislate for themselves on the subject of slavery, and that Congress should leave the question to the decision of their own choice.
Memorial of inhabitants of Montgomery County in the State of Ohio upon the subject of free people of color.
Memorial of inhabitants of Muskingum County, Ohio, for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Memorial of inhabitants of the District of Columbia, praying for the gradual abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Memorial of sundry inhabitants of the City of Baltimore.
Memorial of sundry masters of American vessels, lying in The Port of Charleston, SC
Memorial of the American Missionary Association, praying the rigorous enforcement of the laws for the suppression of the African slave-trade, and the enactment of such additional laws as may be necessary to put an end to that traffic.
Memorial of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States.
Memorial of the General Assembly of Missouri, requesting that efforts be made, by negotiation with the British Government, to procure the restoration of fugitive slaves.
Memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society.
Memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society.
Memorial of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying the adoption of measures for the suppression of the African slavetrade.
Memorial of the Society of Friends, upon the subject of the foreign slavetrade.
Message from the President of the U.S., Transmitting Additional Documents Relative to the Convention with Great Britain for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th ultimo, relating to the proceedings of the Joint Commission of Indemnities, due under the award of the emperor of Russia, for slaves and other private property carried away by the British forces in violation of the Treaty of Ghent.
Message from the president of the United States, transmitting, In pursuance of a resolution of the Senate, of 20th April, A Report of the Attorney General, relative to the Introduction of Slaves into the United States, contrary to existing laws
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 28th of February, 1857, all correspondence of John W. Geary, late governor of the Territory of Kansas, not heretofore communicated to Congress.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 16th and 18th instants, correspondence between the executive department and the present Governor of Kansas, and between the executive and any governor or other officer of the government in Kansas, with any orders or instructions which may have been issued, together with other information relative to affairs in that territory.
Message of the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, calling for copies of certain papers relating to the Territory of Kansas.
Message of the President of the United States, informing Congress that he had approved and signed the act entitled “An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia,” and recommending an amendatory act.
Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave trade.
Mr. Benton on the Dred Scott Case.
No More Slave-Hunting: The Fugitive Slave Act.
No Slavery in Nebraska– No Slavery in the Nation– Slavery an Outlaw: Speech of Gerrit Smith, on the Nebraska Bill, in the U.S. House of Representatives, April 6, 1854
Our Own Correspondence.: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Unconstitutional
Owners of slaves enlisted as volunteers. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 17th instant, in relation to appointment of commissioners to award compensation to the owners of slaves enlisted as volunteers.
Petition of citizens of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for an annual appropriation to remove to Africa all free Negroes and manumitted slaves.
Petition of Jas. N. Kennett and others, citizens of Kentucky, praying indemnity for slaves enticed into Ohio, and whom, under the laws of that state, they are unable to recover.
Petitions for repeal of fugitive slave act of 1850, and all other acts for rendition of fugitive slaves
Preamble and resolution of the Legislature of Vermont, in relation to the suppression of the Slave Trade.
Prohibition of slavery in Missouri.
Prohibition of slavery in Missouri.
Prohibition of slavery in new states.
Rebellion of the seceding states.
Rebellion of the seceding states.
Recent American Decisions.: District Court of the United States.–Northern District of New York.–August 17-29, 1851. EX PARTE JOHN DAVIS, PETITIONER FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
Remonstrance of Sarah Chapman and 3,028 other women, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, against the annexation of Texas to the United States, as a slave-holding territory.
Remonstrance of the Grand Jury of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, in respect to petitions to Congress for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Report Of the Committee on the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Report of the Committee to which was referred so much of the President’s message as relates to the slave trade.
Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President’s message as relates to the introduction of slaves from Amelia Island.
Report of the Committee to whom was referred the memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States.
Report of the Committee to whom was referred, at the commencement of the present session of Congress, so much of the President’s message as relates to the slave trade, accompanied with a bill to incorporate the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States.
Report of the Secretary of State, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 24, calling for information relative to the coolie trade.
Report of the Secretary of State.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy, December, 1859.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 26th of May, a copy of the preliminary report, and also of the final report of the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission.
Report on the Dred Scott Decision
Resolution calling for information as to any communication which may have been made to the Government of the Quintuple Treaty for the suppression of the slave trade.
Resolutions Authorizing the President of the United States to negotiate with foreign governments on the means of effecting an entire abolition of the African slave trade, and for other purposes.
Resolutions of legislature of Ohio, on repeal of fugitive slave law
Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to slavery, and the admission of Kansas into the Union.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia, approving of the principles contained in the “Nebraska Bill,” relating to the subject of slavery in the territories.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Scott versus Sandford.
Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, against the extension of the institution of slavery, and the further acquisition of foreign territory by the General Government; in favor of the right of trial by jury to all persons claimed under the fugitive slave law; and approving the course of the delegation from that state on the bill for the establishment of territorial governments in Nebraska and Kansas.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to Kansas and slavery.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in relation to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dred Scott.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, relative to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dred Scott.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, in relation to the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Scott versus Sandford.
Resolutions, for declaratory clauses to Constitution to secure certain propositions in relation to slavery
Revised code of D.C., prepared under authority of act of Congress entitled “”Act to improve laws of D.C., and to codify same,” approved Mar. 3, 1855
Rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection; collection, receipt, and disposition of captured, abandoned, and confiscable property; and employment and general welfare of freedmen [with amendment, text]
Selections.: The Conditions of Reconstruction
Selections: ‘Manifest Destiny’ of the American Union
Selections: Anti-Slavery Meeting. The American Fugitive Slave Act.
Selections: Appeal in Behalf of the Fugitive
Selections: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, in the Senate of the United States, on his Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill. February 23, 1855.
Selections: The Dred Scott Decision.
Senate bill no. 96 — claims — Treaty of Ghent.
Sentiments of Abraham Lincoln on Slavery.: From Speech at Springfield, Ill., June 17, 1858. Dred Scott Case the Knell of Freedom. From the same. From Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858. From Speech at Springfield, July 17, 1858. From Speech at Jonesboro, Ill., Sept. 15, 1858. From Speech at Quincy, Ill., Oct. 13, 1858. The text of the Constitution. From Letter to Boston Committee, April 6, 1859. From Letter to German citizens, May 17, 1859. From Speech at Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 1859. From Speech at Cincinnati, Sept. 1859. From Message to Congress of December 1, 1862. From Message to Congress, Dec. 8, 1863. From Letter to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864.
Slave trade, &c. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of despatches from the American Minister at the Court of Brazil, relative to the slave-trade, &c.
Slave trade.
Slave trade.
Slave trade.
Slavery Nationalized–The Case of Dred Scott.
Slavery — District of Columbia. Memorial of inhabitants of the District of Columbia, praying for the gradual abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Slavery — Kansas and secret political associations. Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, in relation to the extension of slavery, Kansas, and secret political associations.
Slavery in District of Columbia
Slavery in the District of Columbia. (to accompany bill H.R. no. 351.).
Slavery in the Indiana Territory.
Slavery in the Indiana Territory.
Slavery in the Territory of New Mexico. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 64.)
South Carolina, Virginia, and New York controversy.
State Sovereignty and Personal Rights.
Suppression of the slave trade.
The Case of Dred Scott
The Case of Dred Scott in the New York Assembly.
The Case of Dred Scott: Opinion of Mr. Justice Curtis, Delivered Dred Scott v. J. F. H. Sandford.
The Daily Advertiser as Counsel for Judge Curtis.
The Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision
The Fugitive Slave Act Unconstitutional.
The Fugitive Slave Law an Expensive ‘Institution’
The Oberlin Habeas Corpus: Decision of the Ohio Supreme Court. Judge Swan’s Opinion. Judge Brinkerhoff’s Opinion.
The Oberlin Rescue
The Opinion of Judges Curtis in the Dred Scott Case.
The President and Fremont.
The slave trade. (To accompany bill S. no. 464.)
The Work of Nationalizing Slavery.
The Dred Scott Case.
Violation of the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves.
Virginia. Inhabitants of Buckingham County — Free Negroes.
William Yokum.
Wm. Hazzard Wigg — Claim for slaves taken by the British in the Revolutionary War.
[Additional Article to the Treaty with Great Britain for Suppression of the African Slave Trade.] Message of the President
[Bill to secure equality before the law in courts of United States]
[Emancipation of slaves in District of Columbia]
[In relation to domestic slavery]
[In relation to domestic slavery]
[In relation to domestic slavery]
[In relation to domestic slavery]
[Memorial of Governor, members of Legislature, officers and citizens of Florida, praying that Toney Proctor, free colored man, be compensated for services as Seminole interpreter]
[Message of President, communicating constitution for Kansas adopted at Lecompton, 4 September, 1857]
[Motion on exclusion of slavery from territory to be acquired from Mexico]
[Motion on power of people and legislatures of Territories to exclude slavery]
[Motion on powers of Congress over slavery in States and Territories, and on conquest]
[Motion on slavery in District of Columbia]
[No title] Motion for adjustment of questions of slavery, etc., in territories acquired from Mexico, and of boundary of Texas
[No title] Resolution in relation to convention of the several States on slavery
[No title] Resolution on negro slavery
[No title] Resolutions as an amendment to resolutions on slavery
[No title] Resolutions on intermeddling with slavery in States or Territories; and on provision of Constitution for rendition of fugitives from service or labor
[No title] Resolutions on slavery and the rebellion
[No title] Resolutions on slavery in States and Territories
[No title] Resolutions proposing adjustment of question of slavery in territories lately acquired from Mexico, and Texas boundary
[On attempts to circulate through mail inflammatory appeals to excite slaves to insurrection]
[Petition of American Colonization Society, praying remuneration for support of certain Africans recaptured from slaver Pons by U.S.S. Yorktown]
[Petition of citizens of western Pennsylvania on slaves]
[Petition of president and stockholders of Florida Steam Packet Company, owner of steamship Carolina seized for carrying slaves]
[Petition of Robert F. Stockton, commanding schooner Alligator off coast of Africa, for suppression of slave trade]
[Report on Resolution Relative to the Abrogation of a Treaty with Great Britain.]
[Resolution for declaring, by amendment of constitution, that property in slaves, as recognized by local law of any States, shall stand on same footing in all constitutional and federal relations as any other property so recognized]
[Resolution of Senate directing Secretary of Senate to pay Cornelius Wendell certain moneys for twenty thousand copies of Opinions of Judges of Supreme Court of United States in Dred Scott case]
[Resolution on African slave trade and abolition]
[Resolution on national affairs, against War, Lincoln, and abolishing slavery]
[Resolution on slavery]
[Resolutions on adoption of constitutional amendment abolishing slavery]
[Resolutions on the Annexation of Texas.]
[Sundry memorials and resolutions of several State Legislatures, on colonization of persons of color]
[To provide for more effectual execution of 3d clause of 2d section of 4th article of constitution of United States]
[Treaty of Annexation with the Republic of Texas.]
[Treaty with Colombia for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.]
[Treaty with Great Britain.]
A bill concerning slavery in the District of Columbia., 1830
A bill to disapprove and declare null and void all territorial acts and parts of acts heretofore passed by the legislative assembly of New Mexico which establish, protect, or legalize involuntary servitude or slavery within said Territory, except as punishment for crime upon due conviction., 1860
A bill to provide for taking the sense of the people of the several States on certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States., 1861
A bill to provide for taking the sense of the people of the several States on certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States., 1861
A bill to facilitate the suppression of the rebellion and prevent its return, and that the President be requested to declare free, and to direct all our generals and officers in command to order freedom to, all enslaved persons who shall leave their masters, or shall aid in quelling this rebellion., 1861
A bill to render freedom national and slavery sectional. To secure freedom to all persons within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government., 1862
An act giving aid to the State of Missouri for the purpose of securing the abolishment of slavery in said State., 1863
A bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia., 1862
A bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia., 1862
A bill to suppress the slaveholders’ rebellion., 1861
A bill to relieve the national government of all obligation to support slavery and of all responsibility for it under the Constitution., 1862
A bill for the confiscation of the property of rebels, and giving freedom to the persons they hold in slavery., 1861
A Bill To amend the confiscation act, and for other purposes. In order to secure to the loyal people of the United States ”indemnity for the past and security for the future,” and cause the rebels to pay part of the enormous expenses incurred and debts contracted in suppressing the rebellion, by a just condemnation and appropriation of all the property, real and personal, of the actors, instigators, and aiders of said rebellion, to the full extent authorized by the Constitution, 1863
An act to establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs, 1864
A bill to repeal the fugitive slave act of 1850, and all acts and parts of acts for the rendition of fugitive enslaved persons, 1864
An Act To establish, in the War Department, a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees., 1865
A bill to abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States., 1864
A bill to provide for the renting of abandoned lands, tenements, and houses in insurrectionary States, and for the care and employment of persons therein set free by proclamation of the President., 1864
A bill to repeal all acts for the rendition of fugitives from service or labor., 1864
A bill to aid the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President on the First day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three., 1864
A bill to prohibit commerce in enslaved persons among the several States, and the holding or transportation of human beings as property in any vessel within the jurisdiction of the national government., 1864
A bill to establish a bureau of freedmen., 1864
A Bill To incorporate the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company., 1865
A bill to establish a Bureau of Emancipation, 1864
A bill to secure equality before the law in the courts of the United States. That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color., 1864
A bill to double the pensions of those who were made pensioners by the casualties of the late war; to pay the damages done to loyal men by the rebel government and rebel raiders; and enforce the confiscation laws, so as to pay the same out of the confiscated property of the enemy., 1865
A bill to maintain and enforce the freedom of the inhabitants of the United States., 1865
A bill supplying appropriate legislation to enforce the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting slavery., 1865
Supreme Court Documents on Ableman v. Booth, 1858
Colonization of free men in Africa, diplomatic correspondence with Great Britain on slave trade and commerce, 1843
African slave trade. Resolutions, 1860
Liberia, purchase of Territory in, by American Colonization Society, for suppression of African slave trade, 1844
Report of Major General Wool on number, age, and condition of Africans in Fort Monroe military district, 1862
Amendment to Constitution on compensation for emancipation of enslaved persons, 1863
American diplomatic code, embracing collection of treaties and conventions between U.S. and foreign powers from 1778-1834, 1834
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1793
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 1793
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850
Bill text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 1850
An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing, with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories, 1820
Law Text: An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes, 1861
An Act to secure Freedom to all Persons within the Territories of the United States, 1862
Law Text: An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes, 1862
News article: An address by the anti-slavery Christians of the United States on slavery and the fugitive slave act, 1852
News article: On the unexpected consequences of the Dred Scott case, 1858
Application to prohibit importation of enslaved persons into territory of Louisiana, petition of American convention for promoting abolition of slavery, 1804
Slave trade, appropriation to suppress, 1826
Allowing bounty land to Archibald Jackson; owner of slave, James Gammons, 1831
Allowing bounty land to Archibald Jackson; owner of slave, James Gammons, 1832
News article: Judge Daniel’s opinion on the Dred Scott case, 1857
Journal article: On the Confiscation Act, 1861
News article: On the fugitive slave act as unconstitutional, 1852
Collection of laws of U.S. relating to revenue, navigation and commerce, and light-houses, etc., up to Mar. 4, 1843, including treaties with foreign powers, 1844
Collection of laws of U.S. relating to revenue, navigation and commerce, and light-houses, etc., up to Mar. 4, 1843, including treaties with foreign powers, 1844
Memorial of two hundred forty two free colored persons of California, on colonization, 1862
American Colonization Society, Memorial of, on colonizing free people of colour in Africa, 1827
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
News article: On a legal case involving the fugitive slave act and its constitutional status, 1854
Journal article: Judge opinions on the Dred Scott case, 1857
Journal article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
Declaring the objects of the war and the purposes of the President in regard to slavery, enjoining obedience to certain acts of Congress and announcing the President’s intention to recommend compensation to loyal persons for the loss of enslaved persons. September 22, 1862, 1862
Estimates for deficiencies in appropriation for suppression of slave trade, 1860
Digest of opinions of Judge Advocate General of Army, 1865
Digest of treaties and statutes of U.S. relating to commerce, navigation, and revenue [with summaries of related judicial decisions], 1830
Digest of treaties and statutes of U.S. relating to commerce, navigation, and revenue [with summaries of related judicial decisions], 1830
Diplomatic code of U.S.A., embracing collection of treaties and conventions between U.S. and foreign powers, from year 1778-1827, with index to principal cases decided in courts of U.S. upon points connected with their foreign relations; and various official acts, papers, and useful information, for public ministers and consuls; to which is annexed, extracts from treaties and conventions, at present subsisting between Great Britain, France, Spain, etc., chiefly intended to elucidate policy pursued towards America, about period of late general pacification in Europe, 1827
Crittenden resolutions, petition of committee of thirty-three appointed at mass meeting of workingmen held in Philadelphia, in favor of, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 1, Report of Select Committee of Thirty Three, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 3, Minority Report of C. C. Washburn and Mason W. Tappan, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 4, Minority Report of Miles Taylor, John S. Phelps, A. Rust, William G. Whiteley, and Warren Winslow and Joint Resolution proposing amendments to Constitution, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 5, Minority Report of John C. Burch and Lansing Stout, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 6, Minority Report of Thomas A. R. Nelson and Joint Resolution proposing amendments to Constitution, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 7, Minority Report of Charles Francis Adams, 1861
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 9, Minority Report of Peter E. Love and A. J. Hamilton, 1860
Presidential message transmitting treaty with Great Britain and accompanying documents, p. 17 [enclosed with 418 H.doc.2], 1842
Claim of Don Juan Madrazo for payment for slaves captured from schooner Isabelita and introduced illegally into United States, 1836
Claim of Don Juan Madrazo for payment for slaves captured from schooner Isabelita and introduced illegally into United States, 1837
Agricultural report on tropical plants, encourage introduction and growth of, 1838
Owners of brig Casket, praying indemnity for alleged illegal seizure of ship under suspicion of slave trade, 1860
Emancipation and colonization of enslaved persons, 1862
Tabular statements of commissioner of emancipation in District of Columbia, 1854
Emancipation of the enslaved persons of rebels, 1862
Extension of right of suffrage, and admission of slavery, for limited time, in Indiana territory, and division thereof; petition of inhabitants, 1806
Colored seamen, free, laws in Southern States on, 1843
Free men within District of Columbia, concerning free, 1827
News article: On the Confiscation Act, General Fremont, and Abraham Lincoln, 1861
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
House and Senate Reports: Resolutions of legislature of Massachusetts, on repeal of fugitive slave law, 1855
Anonymous narrative of a fugitive enslaved person, n.d.
News article: on a legal case involving the fugitive slave act, 1852
News article: Proclamation by General Fremont on the Confiscation Act, 1861
Allowing bounty land to Archibald Jackson; owner of slave, James Gammons, 1831
Letter on contracts for returning and subsistence of captured Africans, 1861
Colonization of free persons of color, 1828
Joint Resolution declaring that the United States ought to cooperate with, affording pecuniary Aid to any State which may adopt the gradual Abolishment of Slavery, 1862
Joint resolutions of Iowa legislature on slavery and admission of Kansas into Union, 1857
Disturbed condition of the country; pt. 2, News of Select Committee of Thirty Three, 1861
News article: Judge Douglas’s opinion on the Dred Scott case., 1857
Kansas investigation, 1856
Resolutions of legislature of Arkansas approving Kansas and Nebraska act, 1855
Kansas claims, 2 pts., 1861
Laws of the U.S. in relation to the Navy and Marine Corps, 1826
Laws of the U.S. in relation to the Navy and Marine Corps, 1841
Laws of the U.S. in relation to the Navy and Marine Corps, 1843
Laws of the U.S. in relation to the Navy and Marine Corps, 1865
Depositions of Gilbert C. Russell and Francis W. Armstrong, on cargoes of slave ships Constitution, Louisa, and Marino, 1826
Instructions to naval commanders concerning slave trade, 1819
Answer to resolution of Senate on slave vessel, bark Augusta, 1862
Letter on draft or enlistment of persons in Maryland who were held as enslaved persons, 1865
Letter on sale into slavery of colored freemen captured by rebels, 1862
Instructions given to commanding generals under act of Congress of August 6, 1861, setting free enslaved persons employed by consent of their masters against United States, 1862
Reports on care of liberated Africans, 1853
Claim of Lieutenant Isaac McKeever for prize money for capture of two slave vessels, 1826
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1859
Citizens of Edgartown, Massachusetts, against slavery, 1832
Citizens of District of Columbia, adverse to any legislation on part of Congress, on slavery therein, 1839
Memorial on military occupation of Texas, 1861
Memorial of citizens of Pennsylvania, on slavery in D.C., 1828
Memorial of delegate from Nebraska Territory, claiming for people right to legislate for themselves on slavery, 1854
Memorial of inhabitants of Montgomery County, Ohio, on free people of color, 1828
Inhabitants of Muskingum county, Ohio, for abolition of slavery in District of Columbia, 1834
Inhabitants of District of Columbia, abolition of slavery, 1828
Baltimore, memorial of citizens of, against slavery in Missouri, 1820
Memorial against certain police regulations of Charleston, S.C., 1823
Memorial of American Missionary Association, praying rigorous enforcement of laws for suppression of African slave trade, and enactment of additional laws, 1860
Colonizing Free People of Color, U.S. American Society for, memorial of, 1827
Legislature of Missouri, requesting that efforts be made, by negotiation with British government, to procure restoration of fugitive enslaved persons, 1847
Memorial of American Colonization Society on removal of colored people to Africa, 1820
Memorial of American Colonization Society on removal of colored people to Africa, 1820
Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying adoption of measures for suppression of African slave-trade, 1840
Quakers of Pennsylvania, memorial on foreign slave trade, 1840
Confidential. Transmits copy of a Mar. 31, 1824, Act of Parliament declaring the slave trade to be piracy, together with related correspondence., 1824
Presidential message with proceedings of Joint Commission under award of Emperor of Russia, on enslaved persons and other property carried away by British forces in violation of Treaty of Ghent, 1826
Presidential message transmitting Report on illegal introduction of enslaved persons into United States by citizens thereof, 1822
Presidential message communicating correspondence of John W. Geary, late governor of Territory of Kansas, not heretofore communicated to Congress, 1858
Presidential message communicating correspondence between executive department and Kansas, 1857
Presidential message communicating correspondence between President, Secretary of State, and members of Congress and Governors in relation to Kansas Territory, with copy of laws of said Territory, 1856
Presidential message informing Congress he approved and signed act for release of certain persons held to service or labor in District of Columbia, and recommending amendatory act, 1862
Presidential message transmitting copy of treaty with Britannic Majesty for suppression of African slave trade, 1862
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
News article: On repealing the fugitive slave act, 1864
News article: Transcription of a speech given by Gerrit Smith on the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Act, 1854
News article: On the Fugitive Slave Act and the Constitution, 1857
Answer to resolution on compensation to owners of enslaved persons enlisted as volunteers, 1865
Petition of citizens of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, for appropriation to remove to Africa all free negroes and manumitted enslaved persons, 1836
Citizens of Kentucky, praying indemnity for enslaved persons enticed into Ohio, unable to be recovered under laws of Ohio, 1850
House and Senate Reports: Petition to repeal all fugitive slave acts., 1864
Preamble and resolution of legislature of Vermont on suppression of slave trade, 1851
Prohibition of slavery in Missouri, petition of inhabitants of Newport, Rhode Island, 1819
Prohibition of slavery in Missouri, petition of inhabitants of Hartford, Connecticut, 1820
Prohibition of slavery in new States, petition from American convention for promoting abolition of slavery held at Philadelphia, 1819
Amendment to resolution on rebellion in seceding states, 1863
Amendment to resolution on rebellion in seceding states, 1863
News article: On the fugitive slave act, 1851
Memorial of women of Boston, Massachusetts, against annexation of Texas as slave-holding Territory, 1837
Remonstrance of Grand Jury of Washington, on petitions to Congress for abolition of slavery in District of Columbia, 1837
Slave trade, further measures for suppression of, 1822
Report on the slave trade, 1821
Illicit introduction of enslaved persons from Amelia Island, 1818
Report on Memorial of Society for Colonizing Free People of Color, 1818
American Colonization Society, report on memorial of, and on subject of slave trade, 1820
Information on transportation of laborers, whether termed “slaves,” “coolies,” or “apprentices,” from Asia or any Asiatic islands to English or Spanish colonies in America, or to Chincha islands, and manner of their treatment after arrival, with statistics showing sacrifice of human life resulting from said traffic, 1856
Documents from State Department, 1844
Annual report of Secretary of Navy, 1859, p. 1135, 1859
Annual report of Secretary of Navy, p. 403 [enclosed with 375 S.doc.1], 1840
Annual report of Navy Department, p. 111 [enclosed with 93 H.doc.2], 1823
Annual report of Secretary of Navy, p. 403 [enclosed with 382 S.doc.2], 1840
Copy of preliminary report; also final report of American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
Motion calling on President for information on quintuple treaty for suppression of slave trade, 1842
Slave trade, negotiation to suppress, 1820
House and Senate Reports: Resolution to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850., 1856
Resolutions of general assembly of Iowa, against slavery, and on admission of Kansas into Union as free state, 1857
Resolutions of Georgia approving principles contained in Nebraska bill, on slavery, 1854
House and Senate Documents: Resolutions of legislature of Massachusetts on decision of Supreme Court of United States in case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1858
Resolutions of legislature of Rhode Island against extension of slavery and acquisition of foreign territory; for right of trial by jury to all persons; approving course of delegation from Rhode Island on bill for establishment of territorial governments in Nebraska and Kansas, 1854
Resolutions of legislature of Maine on Kansas and slavery, 1858
House and Senate Documents: Resolutions of legislature of Maine on decision of Supreme Court of United States in case of Dred Scott, 1857
House and Senate Documents: Resolutions of legislature of Maine on decision of Supreme Court of United States in case of Dred Scott, 1858
House and Senate Documents: Resolutions of legislature of Massachusetts on decision of Supreme Court of United States in case of Dred Scott, 1858
Resolutions on legal protection of enslaved persons as property., 1860
Revised code of D.C. Laws, 1857
Rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection, 1864
News article: On the Confiscation Act and reconstruction, 1863
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1857
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1851
News article: Selections from Lydia Maria Child’s Appeal in Behalf of the Fugitive, 1860
News article: Hon. Charles Sumner’s motion to repeal the fugitive slave act., 1855
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
Enslaved persons and claims of persons under 1st article Treaty of Ghent, 1828
News article: Abraham Lincoln on slavery and the Dred Scott case, 1864
Slave trade, despatches from American minister at Brazil, 1845
Slave trade, petition from American convention for promoting abolition of slavery, 1806
Slave trade, petition of legislature of Ohio for prohibiting, 1806
Slave trade, petitions of Quakers yearly meeting held in Rhode Island, abolition societies convened in Philadelphia, and Providence Society, 1794
News article: On the Dred Scott case., 1857
Memorial of inhabitants of District of Columbia, to abolish slavery, 1828
Resolutions of legislature of Maine on extension of slavery into Territory of Kansas, and secret political associations, 1856
Slavery in District of Columbia, 1836
Slavery in District of Columbia, 1862
Slavery in Indiana territory, resolution in favor of suspending sixth article of compact between United States and the Territories and States northwest of Ohio River, 1807
Slavery in Indiana territory, 1807
Slavery in Territory of New Mexico, 1860
New York, Virginia and South Carolina controversy over State law prohibiting transport of enslaved persons, 1842
News article: On state rights and personal freedoms in regards to the fugitive slave act, 1855
Report on the suppression of the slave trade, 1826
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
News article: On the Dred Scott case resolutions, 1857
News article: Justice Curtis’s opinion on the Dred Scott case, 1857
News article: on the fugitive slave act, 1855
Journal article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
Journal article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
News article: On a legal case involving the fugitive slave act and its constitutional status, 1854
News article: On the expenses required to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, 1858
News article: on a legal case involving the fugitive slave act, 1859
News article: on legal cases involving the fugitive slave act and the Oberlin Rescue, 1859
News article: Judge Curtis on the Dred Scott case, 1857
News article: Letters between General Fremont and Abraham Lincoln on the Confiscation Act, 1861
Report on the slave trade, 1860
News article: on the fugitive slave act, including the opinion from the Attorney General, 1855
News article: On the Dred Scott case, 1857
Violation of act prohibiting importation of enslaved persons, petition of owners of brig Joseph Ricketson, 1809
Free men. Memorial from Buckingham county, Virginia, 1831
Court martial and findings in case of William Yokum, 1864
Claim for Enslaved Persons taken by British, 1860
Transmits additional article signed Feb. 17, 1863, at Washington, to treaty with Great Britain of Apr. 7, 1862 on the suppression of the African slave trade., 1863
Bill to secure equality before the law in courts of United States, 1864
Emancipation of enslaved persons in District of Columbia, 1862
In relation to domestic slavery, by John Caldwell Calhoun, 1837
In relation to domestic slavery, by John Norvell, 1837
In relation to domestic slavery, by Thomas Morris, 1837
In relation to domestic slavery, by Samuel McKean, 1838
Memorial of Governor, members of Legislature, officers and citizens of Florida, praying that Toney Proctor, free colored man, be compensated for services as Seminole interpreter, 1849
Message of President, communicating constitution for Kansas adopted at Lecompton, 4 September, 1857, 1858
Motion on exclusion of slavery from territory to be acquired from Mexico, 1848
Motion on power of people and legislatures of Territories to exclude slavery, 1848
Motion on powers of Congress over slavery in States and Territories, and on conquest, 1848
Motion on slavery in District of Columbia, 1836
Motion for adjustment of questions of slavery, etc., in territories acquired from Mexico, and of boundary of Texas, 1850
Resolution in relation to convention of the several States on slavery, 1860
Resolution on negro slavery, 1850
Resolutions as an amendment to resolutions on slavery, 1860
Resolutions on intermeddling with slavery in States or Territories; and on provision of Constitution for rendition of fugitives from service or labor, 1860
Resolutions on slavery and the rebellion, 1864
Resolutions on slavery in States and Territories, 1860
Resolutions proposing adjustment of question of slavery in territories lately acquired from Mexico, and Texas boundary, 1850
On attempts to circulate through mail inflammatory appeals to excite enslaved persons to insurrection, 1836
Petition of American Colonization Society, praying remuneration for support of certain Africans recaptured from slaver Pons by U.S.S. Yorktown, 1850
Petition of citizens of western Pennsylvania on enslaved persons, 1848
Petition of president and stockholders of Florida Steam Packet Company, owner of steamship Carolina seized for carrying enslaved persons, 1858
Petition of Robert F. Stockton, commanding schooner Alligator off coast of Africa, for suppression of slave trade, 1823
Confidential. Contains Foreign Relations Committee report on Senate resolution to abrogate eighth article of the Ashburton treaty with Great Britain signed Aug. 9, 1842, which provided for the maintenance of a naval force off the African coast to prevent slave trade., 1854
Resolution for declaring, by amendment of constitution, that property in enslaved persons, as recognized by local law of any States, shall stand on same footing in all constitutional and federal relations as any other property so recognized, 1860
House and Senate Documents: Resolution of Senate directing Secretary of Senate to pay Cornelius Wendell certain moneys for twenty thousand copies of Opinions of Judges of Supreme Court of United States in Dred Scott case, 1858
Resolution on African slave trade and abolition, 1817
Resolution on national affairs, against War, Lincoln, and abolishing slavery, 1864
Resolution on slavery, 1818
Resolutions on adoption of constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, 1865
Confidential. Contains proposed resolutions calling for the tabling of the treaty with Texas, for negotiations with Mexico to cede territory west of Texas, for Texas statehood, and for the establishment of a boundary of limits for slavery., 1844
Sundry memorials and resolutions of several State Legislatures, on colonization of persons of color, 1828
To provide for more effectual execution of 3d clause of 2d section of 4th article of constitution of United States, 1850
Transmits treaty signed Apr. 12, 1844, at Washington. Includes correspondence on the involvement of Great Britain in Texas for the abolition of slavery., 1844
[Treaty with Colombia for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.], 1825
[Treaty with Great Britain.], 1842