The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Volume 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867Loren Schweninger, Marguerite Ross Howell, Nicole Marcon Mazgaj University of Illinois Press, 2001 - 424 Seiten An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society. |
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&c signed aforesaid Alabama Anne Arundel County Baltimore County box/drawer Chancery Court charges Charles Charleston District Circuit Court County Court Court of Equity decree with petition Deft District Court document with ibid document/case duty bound Elizabeth emancipation Equity Court Executors filed free blacks free person freedom further show George Georgia Greene County hired Honor to grant Honorable Court husband James James Hutton Jane John Kentucky Landry Parish Louisiana marriage Martha Mary Maryland Maury County microfilm reel Mississippi named defendants orators & oratrixes orators and oratrixes Oratrix further Orleans Parish Orphans Court Pasquotank County persons of color petitioner petitioner further petitioner prays Plaintiff plantation possession pray &c prays your Honor premises purchase Records Related document respectfully result SCDAH sell shew slavery slaves sold South Carolina suit Superior Court Tennessee thereof Thomas trust unto your Honor Virginia wife William writ
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Seite 371 - That certain general laws of the State of Arkansas in force at the close of the session of the general assembly of that State of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as published in eighteen hundred and eighty-four in the volume known as Mansfield's Digest...