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"Slave Conspiracies in North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 5.1 (1928): 20–34. online; Vollmers, Gloria. "Industrial slavery in the United States: the North Carolina turpentine industry 1849–61." Accounting, Business & Financial History 13.3 (2003): 369–392. Yanuck, Julius. "Thomas Ruffin and North Carolina Slave Law."
Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions including the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the 1808 Act Prohibiting ...
At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states, all of which had slave codes. The 19 free states did not have slave codes, although they still had laws regarding slavery and enslaved people, covering such issues as how to handle slaves from slave states, whether they were ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Indiana gave freedom to blacks in the state who had been held as slaves in the territory prior to Indiana's state constitutional ban on slavery. 1830: North Carolina v. Mann: Supreme Court of North Carolina: Slaveowners were ruled to have absolute authority over their slaves and could not be found guilty of committing violence against them ...
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy. An NC slave’s forgotten story reappears after a century, speaking ...
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Twenty-nine Jim Crow laws were passed in Texas. The state enacted one anti-segregation law in 1871 barring separation of the races on public carriers. This law was repealed in 1889. 1865: Juneteenth [Constitution] The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are ...