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 Habeas Corpus Case Records 1820 1863 of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia written by United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These records include orders to produce a prisoner and show cause for capture and detention. Among them is a series of papers that relate to fugitive slaves, 1853-1863, due to the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The Act allowed claimants to recover fugitives by applying to federal judges and commissioners to establish ownership. Slave owners routinely used writs to reclaim runaway slaves. The records include the actual writs, petitions for writs, return of writs, orders of the Court, and other papers filed in habeas corpus proceedings.

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 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 Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia 1862 63 written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 4 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 Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia 1852 63 written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Minutes of the U S Circuit Court for the District of Columbia 1801 1863 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slavery in the District of Columbia To Accompany Bill H R 351 March 12 1862 Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Slavery Code of the District of Columbia written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 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: