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Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery
Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and The Negro: Edited by Helen Tunnicliff Catterall
This series of five volumes is intended to furnish an unbiased picture of American slavery as a social and economic institution. It draws off from the printed reports of cases in state courts and courts of the United States all factual statements and quotations illustrating slavery and the life of the Negro and accompanies these by compressed versions of the law as pronounced by the respective courts.
Subjects such as migration of free Negroes between states, prices and sale of slaves, manumission, crime and punishment, disposition of slaves in wills, relations of slave husbands to slave wives and of white fathers to their slave children are included in these volumes. The reports also show the effects on slavery of the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
A classic documentary collection, Mrs Catterall’s work is a massive guide to an institution that for over two centuries formed the principal basis of economic and social life in large areas of the United States.
VOLUME I Cases from the Courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky
528 pages
VOLUME II Cases from the Courts of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee
672 pages
VOLUME III Cases from the Courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
768 pages
VOLUME IV Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States and the District of Columbia
600 pages
VOLUME V Cases from the Courts of States north of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica
400 pages
5 Volume Set
£650 / $995
ISBN: 0716505649
