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Clarence Darrow

John Quincy Adams to Roger S. Baldwin, November 11, 1840 (Gilder Lehrman Co

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John Quincy Adams and the Amistad case, 1841

On July 1, 1839, fifty-three Africans, recently kidnapped into slavery in Sierra Leone...

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America’s Constitution: A Biography

Amar, Akhil Reed. America’s Constitution: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2005.

Teaching Resource

Slavery and the Law in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

1662

General Assembly determines “Negro women’s children to serve according to the condition of the mother.”

1667

General Assembly passes “An act declaring the baptisme of slaves doth not exempt them from bondage.”

1669

Virginia passes an act regarding the casual killing of slaves: “If any slave resist his master (or other by his master’s order correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction should chance to die, that his death shall not be accompted felony.”

1670

Assembly...