Documents on Slavery
- History and Literature
- I have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr; August 28, 1963
- Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown; 1859
- My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass; 1855
- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth; 1850
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois; 1903
- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
- Federal Statutes
- 1794 - An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave Trade from the United States to any Foreign Place or Country : March 22
- 1800 - An Act in Addition to the Act Intituled "An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave Trade from the United States to any Foreign Place or Country." : May 10
- 1803 - An Act to Prevent the Importation of Certain Persons into Certain States, Where, by the Laws Thereof, Their Admission is Prohibited : February 28
- 1807 - An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into any Port or Place Within the Jurisdiction of the United States, From and After the First Day of January, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight : March 2
- 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act; 1850
- 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act; May 30
- State Statutes
- An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery - Pennsylvania; March 1, 1780
- Treaties and Agreements
- Treaty of Ghent Between the United States and Great Britian - Article 10
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty - Articles 8 and 9
- Treaty Between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; April 7,1862
- Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade; February 17, 1863
- League of Nations. Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery September 26, 1925
- United Nations. Protocol Amending the Slavery Convention Signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926; December 7, 1953
- United Nations. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similiar to Slavery; September 7, 1956
- Documents
- Amendments Proposed by the Peace Conference, February 8-27, 1861
- Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden, December 18, 1860
- Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney; 1841
- Argument of Roger S. Baldwin Before the Supreme Court in the Case of U.S. Appellants vs. Cinque, and Other, Africans of the Amistad: 1841
- Article 2 of The Articles of Association; October 20, 1774
- Draft Constitution for Virginia; June 1776
- Emancipation Proclamation; September 22, 1862
- Northwest Ordinance - Article 6; July 13, 1787
- Report on Government for Western Territory; March 1, 1784
- Resolutions of The Germantown Mennonites; February 18, 1688
- United States Constitution - Thirteenth Amendment; January 31, 1865
