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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Legal and Financial Documents on Slaves and Slavery in the United States
Collection
Creator:
California State University, Northridge. University Library
Identifier/Call Number: SC.SSUS
Extent:
0.84 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1756-1869
Abstract: Purchased by the library in the late
1970s, this collection consists of bills of sale, bonds, writs, promissory notes, summons,
wills of slave owners, and inventories of slaves. It also includes some criminal cases
involving slaves and an anonymously authored play with characters who are slaves. Well over
half the documents concern the state of Alabama with Lawrence County particularly well
represented. The documents are organized by state and arranged by counties.
Language of Material: English
The library created this collection of materials for study and research.
The
Legal and Financial Documents on Slaves and Slavery in the United
States Collection
consists of bills of sale, bonds, writs, promissory notes,
summons, wills of slave owners, and inventories of slaves. It also includes some criminal
cases involving slaves and an anonymously authored play with characters who are slaves. Well
over half the documents concern the state of Alabama with Lawrence County particularly well
represented. The documents are organized alphabetically by state and arranged by
counties.
Digital reproductions of items in this collection are available electronically as a part of
the
Slavery and the Law
project.
Related Material
The collection is open for research use.
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,
U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright
owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission
of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Late 1970s
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased, Late 1970s.
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