Free Blacks, slaves, and slaveowners in civil and criminal courts [electronic resource] : the pamphlet literature / edited with an introduction by Paul Finkelman.
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| Language: | English |
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Garland,
1988-2007.
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| Series: | Slavery, race, and the American legal system, 1700-1872 ;
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Table of Contents:
- Volume 1-Introduction
- Chapter1-The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman, Who Murdered Their Master at Charleston, Mass., in 1755
- Chapter2-The address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who was Hanged at Woodbury in the County of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey-To which is Added His Dying Confession
- Chapter3-The Life and Confession of Cato, a slave of Elijah Mount, of Charleston, in the Count of Montgomery, Who was Execute at Johnstown on the 22nd Day of April 1803 for the murder of Mary Akins
- Chapter4-Faithful Report of the trial of Dr. William Little, on an indictment for an assault and battery, Committed upon the body of a his lawful wife is, Mrs. Jane little, a black lady
- Chapter5-The Commissioners of the Alms-House vs. Alexander Whistelo, a black man; Being a remarkable case of Bastardy Tried and Adjudged by the Mayor, Recorders and Several Aldermen of the City of New York
- Chapter6-The Trial of Amos Broad and His Wife, on Three several Indictments for Assaulting and Beating Betty, a slave and Her Little Female Child Sarah, Aged three years.
- Chapter7-Report of the Trial of Susanna, a Coloured woman: Before the Hon. Ambrose Spence, Esq. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, Held at the City of Schenectady on the 23rd of October, 1810. On a Charge of Having Murdered her Infant Male Bastard Child on the Night of the 22 June, 1810
- Chapter8-Report of the Trial of James Johnson, a Black Man, for the Murder of Lewis Robinson, a Black Man, on the 23rd of October Last
- Chapter9-The Opinion of the Hon. William Johnson, Delivered on the 7th of August, 1823, in the Case of the Arrest of the British Seaman Under the 3d Section of the State Act.
- Pamphlet No. 10 Argument of Benj. Faneuil Hunt, in the Case of the Arrest of the Person Claiming to Be a British Seaman, The / Hunt, Benjamin Faneuil
- Pamphlet No. 11 Last Will and Testament of William Turpin, The / Turpin, William
- Pamphlet No. 12 Opinion of the Hon. John Fox, President Judge of the Judicial District Composed of the Counties of Bucks and Montgomery, against the Exercise of Negro Suffrage in Pennsylvania / Fox, John
- Pamphlet No. 13 Exposition of the Proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and Others, in Relation to the Robbery of Darg / Hopper, Isaac T.
- Pamphlet No. 14 Brief History of an Attempt during the Last Session of the Legislature in 1841, to Interfere with the Judgments of the Courts, A / Ker, John
- Pamphlet No. 15 Refutation of the Slander and Falsehoods Contained in a Pamphlet, Entitled, Sally Miller, A / Miller, John F.
- Pamphlet No. 16 Argument of William H. Seward, in Defence of William Freeman, on His Trial for Murder / Seward, William Henry
- Pamphlet No. 17 For the Defendant in the Case of Benjamin D. Harris vs. James M. Wall, in the Supreme Court of the United States / Clifton, C.R.
- Pamphlet No. 18 Picture of Slavery Drawn from the Decisions of Southern Courts, A
- Pamphlet No. 19 Validity of Slave Marriages / Bradwell, James B.
- Pamphlet No. 20 Slave Contracts: In Court.