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State v. Boon (1801)
The Amistad Case (1841)
The Amistad Case- A Summary From the Gilder Lehrman Institute
The Court Argument text 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
The Dred Scott Case Scott v. Sanford 60 U.S. 393 (1856)
Audio clips of Harriet Scott, Dred Scott's wife
Pace vs. State of Alabama (1883)
Prigg v. Com. of Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842)Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Buchanan vs. Warley (1917)
Grovey vs. Townsend 295 U.S. 45 (1935)
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (opinion from USSC+)
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An act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate
(Virginia - 1705)
The Black Code of Louisiana (1724)
The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line (1763-1767)
The Declaration of Independence (The omission)
A Bill Concerning Slaves (1779)
State v. Boon (1801)
Black Laws of Ohio (1804)
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807)
Washington's Black Code (1808)
Washington's Black Code (1812)
Prigg v. Com. of Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842) (375k)
The Constitution of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia (1839)
Origin of "Jim Crow" (1843)
Slave Codes of the State of Georgia (1848)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Appeal of the Independent Democrats (1854)
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Dred Scott Case (1856))
The Crittenden Compromise (1860)
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1862)
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
"40 Acres and a Mule" - 1865
An Act to increase the military force of the Confederate States - 1865
Black Codes of Louisiana - 1865
Black Codes of Mississippi - 1865
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1868)
A Washington Civil Rights Act (1869)
A Sharecrop Contract (1882
Pace vs. State of Alabama (1883)
Atlanta Compromise 1895
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Free Colored People of North Carolina (1902)
Buchanan vs. Warley (1917)
Grovey vs. Townsend 295 U.S. 45 (1935)
Executive Order 10730
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Organization of Afro-American Unity
Historical Events links from the AFRO-American Almanac
Documents
on Slavery
from the Avalon
Project , Yale University
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