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Collection contains items documenting the sales, escapes, and emancipations of enslaved people from colonial times through the Civil War, and to a lesser extent, materials relating to slavery in the United States dating from the post-emancipation period.
- Beth, 8 Year Old Girl
Beth, 8 Year Old Girl - American Slavery Documents - Duke...
- Draft Bill of Sale, 1787
Draft Bill of Sale, 1787 - American Slavery Documents - Duke...
- Bill of Sale for an Enslaved Person, Leander, From N.C. Trowbridge to E.H. Simmons
Bill of Sale for an Enslaved Person, Leander, From N.C....
- Bill of Sale for One Slave Girl
1. Bill of sale for Bett, an enslaved girl, from Lawrence...
- Certification That Thomas Pritchard is a Free Person, 1811 April 27
Certification That Thomas Pritchard is a Free Person, 1811...
- Betts and Gregory Price Lists of Enslaved Persons, 1860 July 20-1861 January 5
Betts and Gregory Price Lists of Enslaved Persons, 1860 July...
- Beth, 8 Year Old Girl
12 Ιαν 2021 · It was not long after the federal Constitution was created in 1787 that many antislavery Northerners began labeling it a pro-slavery document. Parts of it did support slavery — the clause...
If it should turn out that slavery is a source of insurrection, that there is no security from insurrection while slavery lasts, why, the Constitution would be best obeyed by putting an end to slavery, and an anti-slavery Congress would do the very same thing.
Was the Constitution a proslavery document, as abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison claimed when he burned the document in 1854 and called it "a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell"? This question still provokes controversy.
15 Μαρ 2012 · Art. 1, section 2, gives the slave States a representation of the three-fifths of all the slave population; and Art. 1, section 8, requires the President to use the military, naval, ordnance, and militia resources of the entire country for the suppression of slave insurrection, in the same manner as he would employ them to repel invasion.”
1 Φεβ 2016 · I mean that the Constitution protected slavery and promoted slave ownership. The Constitution’s text contains several proslavery clauses. The Apportionment Clause, Article I, Section 2, added three-fifths of “all other Persons” ‒ slaves ‒ to the number of free inhabitants of a state for purposes of representation.
24 Οκτ 2024 · The Compromise of 1850 was a series of acts that dealt with issues related to slavery and territorial expansion. This guide contains Library of Congress digital materials, external websites, and a print bibliography.
