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Announcement of Slavery and the Courts collection on American Memory
- Subject: Announcement of Slavery and the Courts collection on American Memory
- From: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@LOC.GOV>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:24:49 -0400
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- Reply-to: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@LOC.GOV>
- Sender: Archives & Archivists <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 is the latest
addition to the more than one hundred online collections that are a part
of the American Memory
Historical Collections presented by the Library of Congress. This
new collection features about one hundred pamphlets and books
documenting
the difficult experiences of African and African-American slaves in the
American colonies and the United States. Drawn from the Law Library
and
the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of
Congress, these materials include an assortment of trials and cases,
reports, arguments, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, and
other works of historical importance concerning slaves in free
jurisdictions, fugitive slaves, slave revolts, the African slave trade,
and abolitionists in the North and South.
Highlights of the collection include the cases of Somerset v. Stewart,
1772, which laid the groundwork for the abolition of slavery in England,
and Dred Scott, 1857, which helped precipitate the Civil War, as well as
the memoirs of Daniel Drayton, who helped slaves escape to freedom.
Other materials document the work of John Quincy Adams and William Lloyd
Garrison to abolish slavery and the trial of John Brown. The collection
contains courtroom transcripts, important speeches from trials, lawyers'
trial arguments, and Supreme Court decisions. A special
presentation shows a manuscript slave code of 1860 from the District of
Columbia.
The collection can be found at the following url:
<
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/
>
Please direct any questions to <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html>