A-Z Databases

This collection brings together essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. The library has hundreds of pamphlets and books written about slavery and every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920. It also includes word searchable access to all Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880. The collection also includes many modern histories of slavery and all modern law review articles on the subject.