Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law

Hein Online has just added a new library, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. This library brings together “all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.” This includes every state and federal statute dealing with slavery, and every reported case dealing with slavery, including cases that arose after the abolition of slavery. The library also includes hundreds of pamphlets and trials, every legal article about slavery published before 1920, and modern histories of slavery in America. Editor-in-chief Prof. Paul Finkelman wrote his dissertation about slavery at the University of Chicago, and his published collections of primary sources on slavery and the law are included in the library.

William S. Hein & Co. is making Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law available without charge. This library will be invaluable to researchers studying slavery, and to anyone researching American history in the slavery era.