Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Legal status, laws, etc—North Carolina—Cases [Browse]
• Equity—North Carolina [Browse]
• Law reports, digests, etc—North Carolina [Browse]
• Slavery—Law and legislation—North Carolina—Cases [Browse]
• North Carolina—Trials, litigation, etc [Browse]

Related name

• Devereux, Thomas P. (Thomas Pollock), 1793-1869 [Browse]
• North Carolina. Office of Archives and History [Browse]
• Adam Matthew Digital [Browse]

Series

Slavery, abolition & social justice. [More in this series]

Summary note

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 1826 and 1834, and reported by Thomas P. Devereux. It comprises cases heard in the court of Raleigh. Topics covered include: slavery, slavery and agriculture, freedmen and free Black settlements, the abolition movement, varieties of slave experience, fugitive slaves, slave testimony, master and slave relationship, treatment of slaves, female slaves, child slaves, slave families, wills, sale of slaves, contested ownership of slaves, interracial sexual relations, legal status of slaves, plantations, and emancipation.

Notes

• Electronic reproduction of extracts from: North Carolina reports, v. 12-15 (1829-1836), reporter, Thomas P. Devereux. The reports are listed among the North Carolina State Archives Supreme Court documents within the "Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007" resource.
• Title supplied by publisher.

Location of originals

North Carolina State Archives

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