M&D related site: Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860

[Doug Millison]

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/

This online collection, containing approximately 105 documents, raises a
miniature magnifying glass into a corridor of Americas past and discloses
the experiences of African and African American slaves in America, with a
few cases involving Great Britain. The documents, which were taken primarily
from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of
the Library of Congress, consists of "trials and cases, reports, arguments,
accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a
letter, and other works of historical importance" dating mostly from the
nineteenth century. Notable entries include the Boston Slave Riot, and Trial
of Anthony Burns; A Brief Sketch of the Trial of William Lloyd Garrison; The
Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court; and the Trial of John
Brown. Viewers can search the collection by keyword, or browse by subject,
author, or title index.

from
The Scout Report -- June 21, 2002
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/