Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying adoption of measures for suppression of African slave-trade, 1840
Tag Archives: Slavery
[Petition of American Colonization Society, praying remuneration for support of certain Africans recaptured from slaver Pons by U.S.S. Yorktown]
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 Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for an annual appropriation to remove to Africa all free Negroes and manumitted slaves.
Petition of citizens of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, for appropriation to remove to Africa all free negroes and manumitted enslaved persons, 1836
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a treaty with Great Britain, &c.
Presidential message on treaties with Great Britain, slave trade, and steamboat Caroline, p. 19 [enclosed with 413 S.doc.1], 1842
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d ultimo, in relation to the Africans taken in the vessel called the Amistad, &c..
House and Senate Documents: Correspondence on capture of Spanish schooner Amistad and African enslaved persons taken, 1840
Colonization of free people of colour.
American Colonization Society, Memorial of, on colonizing free people of colour in Africa, 1827
Slave and Coolie trade. Message from the President of the United States, communicating information in regard to the slave and Coolie trade.
Presidential message transmitting correspondence on slave trade, and coolie trade between China and Cuba, 1856
Kansas and Nebraska Act. Resolutions of the legislature of Arkansas, approving the Kansas and Nebraska Act, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
Resolutions of legislature of Arkansas approving Kansas and Nebraska act, 1855
Line of steamers to Africa. Joint resolutions of the Legislature of Iowa, asking for the establishment of a line steamers to trade regularly between the coast of Africa and the United States.
Resolution of legislature of Iowa on line of steamers to Africa, 1855
Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of correspondence in relation to the mutiny on board the brig Creole, and the liberation of the slaves who were passengers in the said vessel.
Presidential message communicating copies of correspondence on mutiny on board brig Creole, and liberation of enslaved persons therein, 1842
Message of the President of the United States, and accompanying documents, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress.
State of the Union address, 1864
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
Message from the President of the United States, communicating correspondence with Great Britain in relation to the convention for suppressing the slave trade.
Presidential message communicating correspondence with Great Britain, on convention for suppression of slave trade, 1825
[Petition of citizens of western Pennsylvania on slaves]
Petition of citizens of western Pennsylvania on enslaved persons, 1848
Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Twenty-eighth Congress.
State of the Union address, 1844
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.
Memorial of two hundred forty two free colored persons of California, on colonization, 1862
Report of the Secretary of State.
Documents from State Department, 1844
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.
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
William Yokum.
Court martial and findings in case of William Yokum, 1864
Schooner Amistad. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 328.).
House and Senate Reports: Indemnity for Spanish schooner Amistad, 1844
African slave-trade.
Liberia, purchase of Territory in, by American Colonization Society, for suppression of African slave trade, 1844
Report Of the Committee on the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Slave trade, further measures for suppression of, 1822
African slave trade. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House, a report from the Secretary of State in reference to the African slave trade.
Message of President transmitting report on African slave trade, 1860
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in reference to the African squadron.
African squadron for suppression of slave trade, 1850