7. Annals of Congress, 17th Congress, 1st Session.
8. Annals of Tennessee, Ramsey, J. G. M., Philadelphia, 1860.
9. Whig Almanac for the years 1836, 1844, and 1848.
10. American Anti-slavery Almanac for 1836.
11. Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 33rd Congress; and 2nd
Session, 38th Congress.
II. Documents.
1. The Constitution of North Carolina, 1776.
2. The Constitution of Franklin, 1785.
3. The Constitution of the United States, 1787.
4. The Constitution of Kentucky, 1799.
5. The Constitution of Tennessee, 1796.
6. The Constitution of Tennessee, 1834.
7. The Constitution of Tennessee, 1870.
8. Thorpe, Francis Newton, Federal and State Constitutions, 7
vols., Washington, 1909.
9. MacDonald, William, Select Charters Illustrative of American
History, New York, 1904.
10. United States Census of 1850, I, Population.
11. Statistical Abstract of United States, 1906.
12. United States Statutes at Large, I.
13. United States Census of 1870, I, Population.
14. Colonial and State Statutes of North Carolina, Colonial
Records, Vols. XXIII-XXV (1715-1790).
15. Statutes of the Southwest Territory, 1790-1795.
16. Acts of Tennessee.
a. Public Acts.
1st Sess. (1799), 1st Sess. (1801), 1st Sess. (1803), 1st Sess.
(1806), 1st Sess. (1807), 1st Sess. (1813), 1st Sess. (1815),
1st Sess. (1817), 1st Sess. (1819), 1st Sess. (1821), 1st Sess.
(1823), 1st Sess. (1825), Extra Sess. (1826), 1st Sess. (1827),
1st Sess. (1829), 1st Sess. (1831), 1st Sess. (1832), 1st Sess.
(1833), 1st Sess. (1835-6), 1st Sess. (1837-8), 1st Sess.
(1839), 1st Sess. (1839), 1st Sess. (1842), 1st Sess. (1843-4),
1st Sess. (1846), 1st Sess. (1847-8), 1st Sess. (1849-50), 1st
Sess. (1851-2), 1st Sess. (1853-4), 1st Sess. (1855-6), 1st
Sess. (1857-8), 1st Sess. (1861), 1st Sess. (1865).
b. Private Acts.
Called Sess. (1824), 1st Sess. (1833).
III. General Slave Treatises.
1. Dobb, T. R. R., Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the
United States, Philadelphia, 1858.
2. Goodell, William, The American Slave Code in Theory and
Practice, New York, 1853.
3. Hurd, John Codman, Laws of Freedom and Bondage, 2 Vols.,
Boston, 1858-1862.
4. Straud, George M., Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery,
Philadelphia, 1856.
5. Wheeler, Jacob D., A Practical Treatise on the Law of
Slavery, New York, 1837.
IV. North Carolina Codes.
1. Davis, James, Laws of North Carolina (this is really an
edition of Swann’s Laws), New Berne, 1752.
2. Iredell, James, Laws of North Carolina, Edenton, 1791.
3. Swann, Samuel, Laws of North Carolina, New Berne, 1752.
V. Codes of Tennessee.
1. Caruthers, R. L., Laws of Tennessee, Nashville, 1810.
2. Caruthers, R. L., and Nicholson, A. O. P., Statutes of
Tennessee (1786-1836).
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