Slavery -- United States
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- Sleeping with the ancestors, how I followed the footprints of slavery, Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier
- In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Ordered, that all the resolutions relating to the questions of slavery and the territories be printed together
- Slavery and slave trade. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to slavery and the slave trade. March 3, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relative to the extension of slavery, to slavery in the Territory of Kansas, to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state, and secret oath-bound political associations. May 19, 1856. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- In the Senate of the United States. February 18, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Green made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 161.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the message of the President, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a state, adopted by the convention which met at Lecompton, on Monday, the 4th of September, 1857, having had the same under consideration, instruct me to report ..
- In Senate of the United States. February 3, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Baldwin submitted for consideration the following resolutions, Resolved, That if any territory shall hereafter be acquired by the United States, or annexed thereto, the act by which said territory is acquired or annexed, whatever such act may be, should contain an unalterable fundamental article or provision whereby slavery ..
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, relative to slavery in the territories. February 20, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- The lengthening shadow of slavery : a historical justification for affirmative action for Blacks in higher education, by John Fleming ; with the assistance of Julius Hobson, Jr., John McClendon, Herschelle Reed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, relative to the introduction of slavery into the newly acquired territory of New Mexico and California. January 24, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New York, in relation to slavery in the territory of New Mexico and California, and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. January 17, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Missouri, on the subject of slavery in the territories, District of Columbia, and states. December 31, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, relative to the introduction of slavery into the territories of New Mexico and California. January 22, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- T. Butler King's report on California. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of T. Butler King, Esq., heretofore appointed bearer of despatches and special agent to California. March 27, 1850. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed; and Committee on Printing instructed to inquire into the expediency of printing 20,000 copies extra. April 11, 1850. Ordered that 10,000 extra copies be printed
- The slave next door, human trafficking and slavery in America today, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, relative to slavery and the slave trade. March 1, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of the exclusion of slavery from the territories acquired from Mexico. January 30, 1849. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- Autographs for freedom, edited by Julia Griffiths
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, relative to slavery and the "Wilmot Proviso." February 26, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Mexican War, and slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, relative to slavery and the Mexican War. February 9, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
- Acquisition of territory. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, relative to the acquisition and control of foreign territory by the United States. May 3, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed
- Kansas. Message of the President of the United States, relative to affairs in the Territory of Kansas. January 24, 1856. -- Received, read and laid on the table. February 14, 1856. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
- Petition of the people of New Mexico, assembled in convention, praying the organization of a territorial government. December 13, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed
- David Walker's appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America
- Kansas constitution. May 11, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed
- New territory -- acquisition of. Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, relative to the acquisition of new territory. February 6, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
- The Negro in our history, by Carter G. Woodson
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut, relative to slavery in the territories and District of Columbia. January 28, 1850. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- African Americans, voices of triumph, by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Memorial of sundry inhabitants of the City of Baltimore. January 10, 1820. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, on the bill for the admission of Missouri into the Union
- Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas, relative to the acts of Congress admitting California into the Union, fixing the boundary of Texas, establishing territorial governments in Utah and New Mexico, the Fugitive-slave Law, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. February 6, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- A treatise on the patriarchal, or co-operative, system of society as it exists in some governments, and colonies in America, and in the United States, under the name of slavery, with its necessity and advantages, by an Inhabitant of Florida
- The man who bought himself : the story of Peter Still, by Peggy Mann and Vivian W. Siegal
- Ebony & ivy, race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities, Craig Steven Wilder
- Tariff, slavery, Mexican War, &c. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the tariff, slavery, Mexican War, &c. February 10, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table
- Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, in relation to the "Wilmot Proviso." February 6, 1849. Read, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery : a problem in American institutional and intellectual life, Stanley M. Elkins
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, relative to the recent assault upon the Hon. Mr. Sumner, and the disturbances in the Territory of Kansas. June 16, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- The Dred Scott case
- In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, submitted for consideration the following resolution. Resolved, that the select committee of thirteen be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing, by constitutional provision -- First. A line running through the territory of the United States not included within the states ..
- Extension of slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, relative to the extension of slavery in any territory that may be annexed to the United States. February 26, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table
- Frederick Douglass, in his own words, edited by Milton Meltzer ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
- In the Senate of the United States. December 31, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell submitted the following report. The Committee of Thirteen, appointed by order of the Senate on the 20th instant, have agreed upon the following resolution, and directed me to report the same to the Senate, Resolved, that the Committee have not been able to agree upon any general plan of adjustment ..
- In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Considered, postponed to, and made the special order of the day for Wednesday next, at 1 o'clock. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions, 1. Resolved, that, in the adoption of the federal Constitution, the states adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the federal government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign ..
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in relation to slavery. February 26, 1849. Ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, in favor of the passage of a law declaring the (so called) Kansas Code null and void. February 20, 1857. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- Alleged interference of the Executive with the action of Congress. Message of the President of the United States, protesting against certain proceedings the House of Representatives. March 29, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with leave to report at any time, and ordered to be printed
- Letters from the slave states, by James Stirling
- In the image of God, religion, moral values, and our heritage of slavery, David Brion Davis
- Dissensions between the North and South. Petition of the committee of thirty-three, appointed at the workingmen's mass meeting, held in Philadelphia, in Independence Square, Saturday evening, January 26, 1861. January 30, 1861. -- Referred to the Select Committee of Five, and ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in relation to slavery. March 1, 1849. Read, and ordered to be printed
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