MATERIALS BEARING ON LEGISLATION
Acts and Laws of His Majestie's Colony of Connecticut, 239 (1730?).
Maryland Archives, Assembly Proceedings, 147, May, 1666.
Charters and Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 750, October, 1718.
New Jersey Laws, 82, May 30, 1668.
Laws and Ordinances of New Netherlands, 32, Aug. 7, 1640; 32, April 13, 1642; 104, Oct. 6, 1648.
Laws of New Netherlands, 344, April 9, 1658.
Acts of Province of New York from 1691 to 1718; 58, 1702.
Acts of Province of New York, 77, 1705; 218, 1715.
Laws of North Carolina, 89, 1741; 371, 1779.
Province Laws of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1725; Province Laws of Pennsylvania, 325 (1726?).
Plymouth Colony Records, IX, 5, Aug. 29, 1643. (Fugitive Slave Clause of the Articles of Confederation.)
Records of Colony of Rhode Island, 177, Oct. 27, 1714.
Hening, Laws of Virginia, I, 401, March, 1655-1656; II, 239, October, 1666; II, October, 1705; IV, 168, May, 1726.
Annals of Congress, 1789-1824.
Thomas Hart Benton. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress from 1789 to 1856. 16 Vols. Washington, 1857-1861.
Congressional Debates, 1824-1837.
Congressional Globe, 1833-(1873).
Journals (House and Senate).
Samuel May, Jr. The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims. New York, 1856. Enlarged Edition, N.Y., 1861.
J. H. Merriam. Legislative History of the Ordinance of 1787. Worcester, 1888.
Niles' Weekly Register, September, 1828, to March, 1829. Vol. XXXV.
Joel Parker. Personal Liberty Laws, and Slavery in the Territories (pamphlet). Boston, 1861.
Statutes at Large.
George M. Stroud. A Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery in the Several States of America. Second Edition with Alterations and Considerable Additions. Philadelphia, 1856.
Henry Wilson. History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United States Congresses, 1861-1864. Boston, 1864.