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Index of works about slavery, from ancient to modern times.
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Source documents on slavery
Ancient works
- Philemon by Paul of Tarsus (apostle)
- On Benefits[1], Book III, chapters 18-25, 62 AD by Seneca
Transatlantic slavery
Legislation, petitions etc.
- Petition against the Introduction of Slavery, 1739
- Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, 1790 by Benjamin Franklin
- Upper Canadian Act Against Slavery, 1793
- History of the United States 1801-09 during the Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson, Volume I, Chapter 15, 1807, Account of the U.S. Congressional Debate on the bill that became the law abolishing the international importation of slaves to the United States (history published 1890 by Henry Adams).
- Treaty between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, for preventing their Subjects from engaging in any Traffic in Slaves, 1818
- Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 Act
- Corwin Amendment, 1861 proposed constitutional amendment
- The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 by Abraham Lincoln
Abolitionist works
Apologies of Slavery
- Of the Power of Masters[1], chapter 22 of The Elements of Law, 1640 by Thomas Hobbes
- Bondage a Moral Institution, Sanctioned by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments[1]
- A Defence of Southern Slavery[2], Author:Iveson L. Brookes
- Uncle Tom's Cabin in Ruins! Triumphant Defence of Slavery![3], Author:Nicholas Brimblecomb
- A Defence of Negro Slavery, as it Exists in the United States[4] Author:Matthew Estes
- Slavery Not Forbidden by Scripture[5], Author:Richard Nisbet
- Slavery Consistent with Christianity[6] 1840 by Author:Leander Ker
- Bible Defence of Slavery [7], Author:Josiah Priest (1843)
- Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution[8] 1845 Author:Francis Wayland and Author:Richard Fuller
- The Duties of Masters and Slaves Respectively[9] 1845 Author:William Thomas Hamilton
- The Pro-Slavery Argument[10] 1853
- Negro Slavery: No Evil[11] 1854 Author:Benjamin F. Stringfellow
- Slavery Indispensable to the Civilization of Africa[12] 1855 Author:Samuel McKenney
- Slaveholding not Sinful[13] 1856 Author:Samuel Blanchard How
- A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States[14] 1856
- Slavery: The Argument from the Scriptures[15] 1856 Author:Albert Taylor Bledsoe
- Scriptural and Statistical Views in Favor of Slavery[16] 1856 Author:Thornton Stringfellow
- The Christian Doctrine of Slavery[17] 1857 Author:George Dodd Armstrong
- The Right of American Slavery[18] 1860 Author:True Worthy Hoit
- Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?[19], 1860
- Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery[20] 1861 Author:William Henry Holcombe
- A History and Defense of African Slavery[21] 1861 Author:William B. Trotter
- Negroes and Negro Slavery: The First and Inferior Race; the Latter its Normal Condition[22] 1861 Author:John H. Van Evrie
- Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible[23], 1861Author:John Richter Jones
- The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder[24] 1860 Author:James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
- A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century[25] 1864 Author:John Henry Hopkins and Author:Alonzo Potter
- White Supremacy and Negro Subordination[26] 1868 Author:John H. Van Evrie
Modern works
- The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
- What Women might do with the ballot: The Abolition of the White Slave Traffic, 1911 by Clifford G. Roe
- Slavery in Europe, 1918 by the Anti-Slavery Society
- In re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation, 2005
Slave sale posters
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Slave sale poster, 1829, St. Helena -
Slave sale poster, 1840. New Orleans
Fictional accounts of slavery
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 -
The Black Man's Lament, 1826 by Amelia Opie
- Poems on Slavery, 1842 by Henry Longfellow
- Dead Souls[1], 1842 by Nikolai Gogol
- Poor Folk[1], 1846 by Fyodor Dostoevsky