Primary Sources: Discourse of Slavery
and Anti-Slavery

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Adams, John Quincy

Argument Before the Supreme Court of the United States in theCase of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque and Other Africans Captured in theSchooner Amistad (Delivered 24 Feb. and 1 Mar. 1841). New York: W. W. Benedict, 1841. Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America. Mystic Seaport Museum. 4 Sep. 1998. http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html

Jefferson, Thomas.

"Notes on Slavery." Excerpted from Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782. 144–151, 169–171. The American Revolution. 28 Aug. 1998. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slav_I.htm.

 

"Slaves' Appeal to Thomas Gage, Royal Governor of Massachusetts". May 25, 1774. N. p. Internet Modern History Sourcebook. 28 Aug. 1998. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1774slavesappeal.html.