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1) An argument in the case of James Sommersett, a Negro, lately determined by the Court of King's Bench: wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present unlawfulness of domestic slavery in England : to which is prefixed a state of the case

Author

Sommersett, James

Series

Legal classics library
Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Printed for the author

Pub. Date

1772.

Language

English

2) History of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin: who was six years a slave in Algiers, two of which she was confined in a dark and dismal dungeon, loaded with irons for refusing to comply with the brutal request of a Turkish...

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Printed for W. Crary

Pub. Date

1807.

Language

English

3) The trial of Amos Broad and his wife, on three several indictments for assaulting and beating Betty, a slave, and her little female child Sarah, aged three years: had at the Court of Special Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the city and county of New-York, at the City-hall, of the said city, on Tuesday, the 28th day of February,...

Author

Series

New York legal research library
Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
Women and the law
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Publisher

Printed by Henry C. Southwick

Pub. Date

1809.

Language

English

4) The New-York conspiracy, or, A history of the Negro plot: with the journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New-York in the years 1741-2 : containing the names of the white and black persons arrested on account of the...

Author

Horsmanden, Daniel

Series

New York legal research library
Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
History of capital punishment
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Publisher

Printed and published by Southwick & Pelsue

Pub. Date

1810.

Language

English

5) A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the members of His Majesty's Council for the Virgin-Islands) at the island of Tortola, on the 25th April, 1811, and...

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Printed by Tertius Dunning

Pub. Date

1812.

Language

English

6) Trial of the Rev. Jacob Gruber, minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the March term, 1819, in the Frederick County Court, for a misdemeanor

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
Religion and the law
World trials library

Publisher

Published by David Martin

Pub. Date

1819.

Language

English

7) An official report of the trials of sundry Negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection in the state of South-Carolina: preceded by an introduction and narrative : and, in an appendix, a report of the trials of four white persons on indictments for attempting to excite the slaves to insurrection

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

James R. Schenck

Pub. Date

1822.

Language

English

8) The London Missionary Society's report of the proceedings against the late Rev. J. Smith, of Demerara, minister of the gospel, who was tried under martial law, and condemned to...: from a full and correct copy, transmitted to England by Mr. Smith's counsel, and including the documentary evidence omitted in the parliamentary copy : with an appendix :...

Author

London Missionary Society

Series

Selden Society publications and English legal history
Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
Military and government
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Publisher

F. Westley

Pub. Date

1824.

Language

English

9) Speech of David Paul Brown, before the Mayor's Court of Philadelphia, September 17, 1825, on the subject of a riot and assault and battery

Author

Brown, David Paul

Series

Civil rights and social justice
World trials library

Publisher

W. Brown, printer

Pub. Date

1825.

Language

English

Description

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Concerns riot of Irish emigrants aboard the ship Niagara. John M'Morris, William M'Bride, John Casey and nine others were charged with riot and assault and battery on Stephen Hymer.

10) Case of the Vigilante, a ship employed in the slave-trade: with some reflections on that traffic

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Printed by Harvey, Darton and Co

Pub. Date

1826.

Language

English

11) Narrative of the late riotous proceedings against the liberty of the press, in Cincinnati: with remarks and historical notices, relating to emancipation

Author

Ohio Anti-slavery Society

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

[The Society]

Pub. Date

1836.

Language

English

Description

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Relates to the public sentiment in Cincinnati against the abolitionists and the destruction of the presses of A. Pugh, printer of the Philanthropist, organ of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.

12) Report of the arguments of counsel, and of the opinion of the court, in the case of Commonwealth vs. Aves: tried and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Published by I. Knapp

Pub. Date

1836.

Language

English

13) The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D., charged with publishing and circulating seditious and incendiary papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the intent of exciting servile...

Author

Crandall, Reuben

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Printed for the Proprietors

Pub. Date

1836.

Language

English

14) The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D., charged with publishing seditious libels, by circulating the publications of the American Anti-Slavery Society: before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, held at Washington, in April, 1836, occupying the court the period of ten days

Author

Crandall, Reuben

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

H.R. Piercy

Pub. Date

1836.

Language

English

15) Alton trials of Winthrop S. Gilman: who was indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Reff, George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Moran, Jr., Henry Tanner, Royal Weller, Reuban Gerry,...

Author

Gilman, Winthrop Sargent

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

John F. Trow

Pub. Date

1838.

Language

English

Description

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Report of the trials succeeding the anti-abolition riot in which Elijah P. Lovejoy was killed.

16) Narrative of riots at Alton: in connection with the death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy

Author

Beecher, Edward

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
Religion and the law
World trials library

Publisher

Published by George Holton

Pub. Date

1838.

Language

English

17) Rights of colored men to suffrage, citizenship, and trial by jury: being a book of facts, arguments and authorities, historical notices and sketches of debates--with notes

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
Civil rights and social justice
World trials library

Publisher

Printed by Merrihew & Gunn

Pub. Date

1838.

Language

English

18) Trial of Rev. John B. Mahan, for felony: in the Mason Circuit Court of Kentucky, commencing on Tuesday, the 13th, and terminating on Monday the 19th of November, 1838

Author

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

Samuel A. Alley, printer

Pub. Date

1838.

Language

English

19) The African captives: trial of the prisoners of the Amistad on the writ of habeas corpus, before the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Connecticut, at Hartford

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Pub. Date

1839.

Language

English

20) From the United States gazette, important slave case

Series

Slavery in America and the world history culture and law
World trials library

Publisher

United States Gazette

Pub. Date

[1839?]

Language

English

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