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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. You can also find every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, more than a thousand pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century, and many modern histories of slavery. [HeinOnline]

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