Download or read book Court Slave Records for DC written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia in April 1862. In order to receive compensation, loyal owners of freed slaves were required to file slave schedules. These records include emancipation papers with dates when certificates of freedom were issued to freed slaves, manumission papers that record the voluntary freeing of slaves by their owners, and case papers relating to fugitive slaves.
Download or read book Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves written by United States. District Court (District of Columbia) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records pertaining to all slavery cases in the District of Columbia covering the period from 1820 to 1863 were maintained by the Circuit Court. They include case papers that relate to fugitive slaves (1851-1863), manumission papers (1857-1863), papers that pertain to slave's purchase of their freedom, slaves freed by wills, petitions of slaves based on the July 12, 1863, Act (12 Stat. 538) that allowed them to file schedules if their owners had neglected to file according to the April 16, 1863, Act (12 Stat. 376), and emancipation papers based on the April 16, 1863, Act.
Download or read book Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves 1851 63 written by United States. District Court (District of Columbia) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slaves in the Family written by Edward Ball and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"
Download or read book Slavery in the Courtroom written by Paul Finkelman and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, 1986. Provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain.
Download or read book District of Columbia Runaway and Fugitive Slave Cases 1848 1863 written by Jerry M. Hynson and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains valuable data gleaned from the District of Columbia Department of Corrections Runaway Slave Book, 1848-1863 and United States District Court for the District of Columbia Fugitive Slave Cases, 1862-1863. The enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 created these records in the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia. Entries for the section on the Department of Correction records give name of slave, date committed and under whose orders; also date of release and to whom they were released. U.S. District Court records are sworn warrants of arrest and give name and residence of those bringing charges and the name of those they seek. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. The author is the 2002 James Dent Walker Award Winner.
Download or read book Free Negroes in the District of Columbia 1790 1846 written by Letitia Woods Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1972 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escape on the Pearl written by Mary Kay Ricks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest mass escape of fugitive slaves in American history is thrillingly chronicled in this “readable . . . valuable account” (Kirkus). On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery in America that would consume Congress, the streets of the capital, and the White House itself. Mary Kay Ricks's vivid history brings to life the Underground Railroad's largest escape attempt, the seemingly immutable politics of slavery, and the individuals who struggled to end it. Escape on the Pearl reveals the incredible odyssey of those who were onboard, including the remarkable lives of fugitives Mary and Emily Edmonson, the two sisters at the heart of this true story of courage and determination. The volume concludes with a thorough overview of the fates of the escapees and their descendants.
Download or read book The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st 1848 written by Worthington Garrettson Snethen and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Williams Gang written by Jeff Forret and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.
Download or read book A Question of Freedom written by William G. Thomas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.
Download or read book The Dred Scott Case written by Roger Brooke Taney and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Download or read book Slavery the Law written by Paul Finkelman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence, and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment, and constitutional law.
Download or read book History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 written by George Washington Williams and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery in the District of Columbia written by Mary Tremain and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slave Owners written by Sandra Barlau and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book They Were Her Property written by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
