Slavery in North America Vol 2 From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems.

Volume 2: Three Trial Records (1791–7) The Life and Confession of Cato (1803) The Diary of Edward Hooker (1805–6) The Anti-Slavery Impulse and Reaction to It Rules for the Regulation of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes (1784) Charles Crawford, Observations upon Negro-Slavery (1790) Noah Webster Effects of Slavery, on Morals and Industry (1793) [Morgan John Rees], Letters on Liberty and Slavery (1798) Barnaby Nixon, A Serious Address, to the Rulers of America in General, and the State of Virginia in Particular ([1806]) The Slave Experience Digest of the Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston (1813) Jarvis Brewster, An Exposition of the Treatment of Slaves in the Southern States (1815) Henry Holcombe, Th e First Fruits, in a Series of Letters (1812)