Slavery and the Slave Trade

Richard Ligon – True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)

Barbados Slave Code
(1661 – 1667)

Jamaica Slave Code (1664)

Royal African Company Documents (1664 & 1667)

Butts v. Penny (1677)

Locke’s Virginia Plan of 1698

Samuel Sewall – The Selling of Joseph (1700)

The Virginia Slave Code of 1705

Queen Anne’s speech on the Assiento 1712

Somerset v. Somerset (1772)

Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Act (1780)

St. George Tucker Gradual Emancipation Plan (1796)