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Electronic reproduction of extracts from: North Carolina reports, v. 18-20 (1837-1840), reporters, Thomas P. Devereux, William H. Battle. 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 1834 and 1839, and reported by Thomas P. Devereux and William H. Battle. It comprises cases heard in the court of Raleigh. Topics covered include: slavery, slavery and agriculture, freemen, 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, hiring slaves, trading with slaves, legal status of slaves, fugitive slaves, and emancipation.
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