Slavery in North America : from the colonial period to emancipation
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Slavery in North America : from the colonial period to emancipation
Pickering & Chatto
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From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems.
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: The Colonial Period Editor: Timothy Lockley Slavery and the Law Acts Relating to Slaves, Statutes at Large of South Carolina (1690-1776) (excerpt)
- James Barclay, The Voyages and Travels of James Barclay (1777) (excerpt)
- Letters from Josiah Smith to Georgre Austin (1771-4) Slave Resistance Grand Jury Presentments (1771-4), in South Carolina Gazette Religion and Slavery Edmund Gibson, Two Letters of the Lord Bishop of London (1727)
- Samuel Davies, Letters from the Rev Samuel Davies, and Others
- shewing, the State of Religion in Virginia, South Carolina, &c. Particularly among the Negroes (1757) George Whitefield, Three Letters from the Reverend Mr G Whitefield : viz. Letter I. To a Friend in London, concerning Archbishop Tillotson. Letter II. To the Same, on the Same Subject. Letter III. To the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina, Concerning their Negroes (1740) (excerpt)
- Alexander Garden, Six Letters to the Rev Mr George Whitefield (1740) (excerpt)
- Anon [Anne Dutton], A Letter to the Negroes lately converted to Christ in America (1743) Pro-slavery, Anti-Slavery, and the Revolutionary Impulse John Saffin, A Brief and Candid Answer to a Late Printed Sheet entitled the Selling of Joseph (1701) (excerpt)
- Benjamin Martyn, An Account Shewing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia in America from its First Establishment (1741) (excerpt)
- Account of the experiences of David Margate, a black British preacher employed by the Countess of Huntingdon to minister to her slaves at Bethesda in Georgia (1775) (manuscript)
- Lord William Campbell to the Early of Dartmouth (1775)
- Anon [Richard Nisbet], Slavery Not Forbidden by Scripture (1773) Volume 2: The Revolutionary and Early National Period Editor: Timothy Lockley Revolution, Resistance and Revolt Trial records of three slaves (1791-7) (manuscript)
- The Life and Confession of Cato: a Slave of Elijah Mount, of Charleston in the County of Montgomery, who was Executed at Johnstown, on the 22d day of April 1803, for the Murder of Mary Akins (1803)
- Diary of Edward Hooker (1805-6) The Anti-Slavery Impulse and Reaction to It Rules for the Regulation of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes, and Others, Unlawfully Held in Bondage (1784)
- Charles Crawford, Observations upon Negro Slavery (1790)
- Noah Webster, Effects of Slavery, on Morals and Industry (1793)
- [Morgan John Rhees], Letters on Liberty and Slavery: In Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled, 'Negro-Slavery Defended by the Word of God' By Philanthropos (1798)
- Barnaby Nixon, A Serious Address to the Rulers of America, in General, and the State of Virginia, in Particular ([1806]) The Slave Experience Digest of the Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston (excerpt) (1813)
- Jarvis Brewster, An Exposition of the Treatment of Slaves in the Southern States, particularly in the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina (1815)
- Henry Holcombe, The First Fruits in a Series of Letters (1812) (excerpt) Volume 3: The Antebellum Period Editor: Jonathan Daniel Wells Imagining, Managing, and Depicting Southern Slavery Alexander Edwards (comp.), Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston (1802) (excerpt)
- Virginia Cary, Letter on Female Character, Addressed to a Young Lady, on the Death of her Mother (1828) (excerpt)
- G S S, 'Sketches of the South Santee', American Monthly Magazine (1836)
- Foby, 'Management of Servants', Southern Cultivator (1853)
- 'Songs of the Slave', Lippincott's Magazine (1868) Slavery, Race, and Southern Intellectual Culture [William Thomas], The Enemies of the Constitution Discovered (1835) (excerpt)
- William Cost Johnson, Speech of William Cost Johnson, of Maryland, on the Subject of the Rejection of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery (1840)
- Nathaniel Russell Middleton, Address Delivered before the Chrestomathic Society of the College of Charleston (1849)
- [Louisa McCord], 'Negro and White Slavery - Wherein do they Differ!', Southern Quarterly Review (1851)
- Samuel Galloway, Ergonomy
- or, Industrial Science (1853) (excerpt)
- Leonidas W Spratt, Speech upon the Foreign Slave Trade (1858)
- H O R, The Governing Race: A Book for the Time, and for All Times (1860) (excerpt) Religion and Slavery George W Freeman, The Rights and Duties of Slaveholders (1837)
- Henry C Wright, Duty of Abolitionists to Pro-Slavery Ministers and Churches (1841)
- John B Adger, The Religious Instruction of the Black Population (1847) Slavery, Law, and Politics Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, A Discourse on the Dangers that Threaten the Free Institutions of the United States (1841)
- Daniel Whitaker, 'The Rights of the South', Whitaker's Magazine (1850)
- State v. Elias (1859) (manuscript) Volume 4: The Civil War and Emancipation Editor: Peter Carmichael Slavery and Secession A. Verot, Slavery & Abolitionism, being the Substance of a Sermon, Preached in the Church of St Augustine, Florida (1861)
- Addresses Delivered before the Virginia State Convention by Hon Fulton Anderson, Commissioner from Mississippi, Hon Henry L Benning, Commissioner from Georgia, and Hon John S Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina (1861)
- 'Commonwealth vs. Harriette Slave Property of B B Cooley & John W Cooley for Murder of Mrs Hetty A Cooley' (1861) (manuscript) Slavery and the Confederate experiment Anon, 'Ebony Idols', The Richmond Enquirer (1861)
- C H Wiley, Scriptural Views of National Trials (1863)
- Charlie Ward, I'm Coming to My Dixie Home ([1861])
- D D Emmett, 'I'm Going Home to Dixie', in The Confederate Stars (1861)
- J J D Renfroe, The Battle Is God's': A Sermon Preached Before Wilcox's Brigade (1863)
- Anon, The Spirit of the South towards Northern Freemen and Soldiers Defending the American Flag Against Traitors of the Deepest Dye (1861)
- Anon, The Abolition of Slavery : The Right of the Government under the War Power (1861)
- Court Martial of William Walker, United States Colored Troops (1864) (manuscript) Slavery Destroyed James E Yeatman, A Report on the Condition of the Freedmen of the Mississippi (1864)
- James E. Yeatman, Suggestions of a Plan of Organization for Freed Labor, and the Leasing of Plantations along the Mississippi River (1864)
- Francis W Pickens, Letter of Hon Francis W Pickens, The Crops and Condition of the Country. Effects of Emancipation. The Different Races of Mankind (1866)
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