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Abolition and Anti-slavery Movement Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign

Apology Should the Government  Apologize  for Slavery?

Amistad and Other Slave Revolts Amistad  Gettysburg College  Mystic Seaport  National Archive

Archival Collections Gilder Lehrman Collection  Slavery - The Peculiar Institute

Bibliographies Slavery Bibliography  Old Bibiliography, Pt. 1  Old Bibiliography, Pt. 2

Civil War

The Constitution Article 1 Section 2.  Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 . Article 4, Section 2.

Databases and Simulations Atlantic Slave Trade Database  Slave Trade Demographic Simulation  American Colonization Society Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843   African American Biographical Database

Discussion Groups and E-Journals Slavery: Electronic Forum on Slavery and Abolition  Studies in the World History of Slavery

Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period Free Blacks - Library of Congress

Manuscripts Virginia Assembly Debates Slavery, 1831-32  A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States

Miscellaneous William Lynch - Consultant on Slavery

Opinions on Slavery George Washington and Slavery Thomas Jefferson on Slavery Opinions of the Early Presidents Lincoln on Slavery

Reparation The Emancipation Proclamation Should African Americans be provided Reparations for Slavery? The Case for Black Reparations

Slave Narratives Slave Narratives  American Slave Narratives  WPA Life Histories  Slave Voices  Narratives on Slavery  The Confessions of Nat Turner (1800 - 1831) Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

Statutes and Cases The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 A First Look at Slavery Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)

Syllabi and Teaching Resources Origins and Nature of New World Slavery  Slavery and Culture in the Atlantic  Abolition Debate in the 1831-32 Virginia Assembly  Michael Gagnon  Sue Peabody Historical Representations

Trade and Economics The Economics of the African Slave Trade Slave Trade Statistics Little Know Facts about Slavery

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The Constitution Article 1 Section 2.  . . . . Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. (The previous sentence in parentheses was superseded by Amendment XIV, section 2.) . . . Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 . . . . . The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. . . .  Article 4, Section 2. . . .No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.. . .

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