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Resolutions of the General Assembly of South Carolina, in relation to the controversy between the States of New York and Virginia, on the subject of surrendering fugitives from justice.

General Assembly of South Carolina, on controversy between New York and Virginia on surrendering fugitives from justice, 1841

[Resolutions of legislature of Kentucky for passage of law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to recover slaves escaping into non-slaveholding States]

Resolutions of legislature of Kentucky for passage of law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to recover enslaved persons escaping into non-slaveholding States, 1848

A Strange Advertisement.

Editorial on an advertisement of a slaveowner searching for a white-passing runaway slave, 1844

Tuesday, January 23, 844.: Justice in Tennessee.

News article: Stories from free African Americans in Tennessee accused of and imprisoned for being runaway enslaved persons, 1844

Law Cases.

News article: Article on a legal case involving a runaway slave, 1833

Rights of Runaway Slaves

News article: On the rights of runaway enslaved persons to have a trial by jury, 1836

The Premium to Kidnappers.

News article: On laws on bounties for slave hunters, 1843

Slavery.

News article: On a free woman accused of being a runaway enslaved person, 1834

Extracts from an act of the Virginia Assembly passed the 22d February, 1817.

News article: On laws regarding runaway enslaved persons in Virginia, 1819

William Jones. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 56.).

House and Senate Reports: Illegal arrest and imprisonment of William Jones, free man of color in District of Columbia, 1844

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of the passage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to recover slaves when escaping into the non slaveholding states.

House and Senate Documents: Legislature of Kentucky, for passage of law of Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to recover enslaved persons escaping into non-slaveholding States, 1847

Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the third session of the Thirty-fourth Congress.

State of the Union address, 1856

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Journal article on a runaway slave that had lived for many years in another state with a wife and child, 1849

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