Regions
Barbados
Jamaica
North America
Carolana (Now parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Texas Bahamas)
United States
England
France
Netherlands
Document Type
Colonial State Papers
Legal
Charter
Congressional Record
Court Decision
Declaration
Government Document
Laws/Ordinances
Legal Case
Legislation
Preamble
Slave Code
Correspondence
Pamphlet
Petition
Speech
Essay
Letter
Journal
Book
Play
Time Period
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
People and Entities
Royal African Company
American Anti-Slavery Society
James II
Charles II
Abner Woolman
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Joseph Williamson
Benjamin Rush
Algernon Sidney
John Locke
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Lord Sunderland
Prologue: Iberian Antecedents
- Las Siete Partidas (1348)
- Romanus Pontifex (1455)
- Inter Caetera (1493)
- Requerimiento (1513)
- Royal Charter of 1518
- Early Spanish Slave Trade (1519/20)
- Petition to the Portuguese King (1526)
- New Laws of 1542
- Los Tres Mulatos (1599)
Ch 1: Debating Power & Empire
- James I – The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598)
- Elizabethean Statute of Artificers Marginalia (1603)
- Original Constitution of Carolina (1629)
- Charter of Maryland (1632)
- An Act Abolishing the Kingly Office, March 17, 1649
- The Trial of Charles I
- John Milton – Eikonoklastes (1649)
- Richard Ligon – A True and Exact History of Barbados (1657)
- Sir Robert Filmer – Patriarcha (1680)
Ch 2: Restoration Settlements
- Charles II Treason & Sedition Act (1661)
- Roger L’Estrange – In Order to the Regulation of Press (1663)
- Royal African Company Documents (1660 – 1667)
- Jamaica Slave Code (1664)
- Barbados Slave Code (1661 – 1667)
- Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
- Colonial State Papers (1670s)
- Enquiries to the Governor of Virginia (1671)
- Barbados Slave Rebellion (1675)
Ch 3: Reacting to Absolutism
- Butts v. Penny (1677)
- A Letter From Sir Thomas Grantham To a Member of Bacon’s Rebellion
- Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
- John Locke – An Essay on Reputation
- Morgan Godwyn – Trade Preferred Before Religion (1685)
- Marvell Andrew – A Collection of Poems On Affairs
- Roger L’Estrange – On Sedition Prosecutions (1663)
Ch 4: Glorious Revolutions?
- Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (c. 1680-1683)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- James Tyrrell – Bibliotheca Politica
- John Locke – Two Treatises of Government (1689)
- Lord Sunderland Correspondence on the Appointment of John Locke to Christ Church (1684)
- The Bloody Assizes: Or, A Complete History of the Life of George Lord Jefferies
- The Dominion of New England (1686)
Ch 6: Tory Reactions
- 1698 African Trade Act
- Virginia Slave Code 1705
- Robert Harley’s investigations into Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-1705)
- Queen Anne’s speech on the Assiento 1712
- Assiento and the Treaty of Utrecht 1710-1713
- Cato by Joseph Addison (1713)
- Hogarth’s South Sea Bubble Print (1720)
- Yorke Talbot Decision 1729