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Electronic reproduction of extracts from: North Carolina reports, v. 8-11 (1823-1828), reporter, Francis L. Hawks. The reports are listed among the North Carolina State Archives Supreme Court documents within the "Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007" resource.
North Carolina State Archives
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| Summary: | This collection consists of extracts of printed summaries of cases relating to slavery and/or African Americans heard in the Supreme Court of North Carolina between 1820 and 1826, and reported by Francis L. Hawks. It comprises cases heard in the court of Raleigh. Topics covered include: slavery, slavery and agriculture, freed slaves and free Black settlements, the abolition movement, varieties of slave experience, urban and domestic slavery, slave testimony, resistance and revolts, master and slave relationship, treatment of slaves, female slaves, child slaves, slave families, wills, contested ownership of slaves, interracial sexual relations, plantations, sale of slaves, legal status of slaves, fugitive slaves, and emancipation.
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