Primary Documents relating to Slavery

• Thomas Bluett, Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon 1734

• Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776

• Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776

• Jefferson's notes on Slavery

• Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779

• United States Articles of Confederation, 1781

• US Constitution, 1787

• Jefferson comments on slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia 1787

• Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa 1788

• Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African 1789

• Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution

• Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

• Gabriel's Revolt 1800

• Dr. Richard Furman, Expostion on Slavery, reflecting the Views of Baptists (1823)

• The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831

• United States v. The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (1841)

• John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court on the Amistad Affair 

• Letter from Kale  and Kinna (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841

• Slave Auction Accounts

• Slave Whipping Accounts

• Excerpts from : Henry Carey, The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. (1853)

• On Slave Religion

• 2000: Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. 
• 1998: Letters from Former Slaves Settled in Liberia, 1834-1866.