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The Black Laws in the Old Northwest: A Documentary History

   By Stephen Middleton
   Foreword by Linda McMurry
   Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 152 (ISSN:
   0069-9624)
   
   Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 1993. 464 pages
   LC 91-4706. ISBN 0-313-28016-9. MKL/ $59.95
   Available (Info. Updated 06/96)
   
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  ** Series **
  
   Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies
   
  ** Description **
  
   This book brings together the Black Laws of the Old Northwest (now the
   states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin) for the first time,
   thereby providing a documentary history of racial discrimination in
   this free territory. The documents in the volume include statutes,
   legislative reports and resolutions, and petitions and memorials
   produced by the state legislatures, government agencies, or concerned
   citizens. After a brief prologue, the documents are organized by
   state. Within each state they are placed in sets of documents of
   specific topics such as immigration laws, welfare and public education
   laws, and jury and testimony laws.
   
  ** Contents **
  
   Foreword -- Preface -- Ordinance of 1787, Article 6 -- Introduction --
   Ohio, March 1, 1803 -- Declaration of Rights -- Enumeration and
   Election -- Militia Policy -- Immigration and Residency --
   Colonization -- Kidnapping Law -- Public Education -- Jury Law --
   Reports: The Black Laws -- Runaway Slaves -- Relief for the Poor --
   Miscegenation of the Races -- Civil Rights -- Summary of Cases --
   Annotated Cases -- Suggested Readings -- Indiana, December 11, 1816 --
   Declaration of Rights -- Slavery -- Indentured Servants and Laborers
   -- Suffrage and Election -- Militia Policy -- Immigration and
   Residency -- Miscegenation Laws -- Taxation and Enumeration --
   Colonization -- Kidnapping -- Fugitive Slaves -- Testimony and Witness
   -- Public Education -- Civil and Legal Rights -- Summary of Cases --
   Annotated Cases -- Suggested Readings -- Illinois, December 3, 1818 --
   Declaration of Rights -- Militia Policy -- Suffrage and Elections --
   Servants and Slaves -- Immigration and Residency -- Kidnapping --
   Testimony and Witness -- Runaway Slaves and Servants -- Miscegenation
   of the Race -- Civil and Legal Rights -- Summary of Cases -- Annotated
   Cases -- Suggested Readings -- Michigan, January 26, 1837 --
   Declaration of Rights -- Kidnapping -- Indentured Servitude and
   Slavery -- The Militia -- Public Education -- Miscegenation of the
   Races -- Civil and Legal Rights -- Summary of Cases -- Annotated Cases
   -- Suggested Readings -- Wisconsin, May 29, 1848 -- Declaration of
   Rights -- Suffrage and Elections -- Runaway Slaves -- Personal Liberty
   and Legal Rights -- Summary of Cases -- Annotated Cases -- Suggested
   Readings -- Index
   
  ** Author Biography **
  
   STEPHEN MIDDLETON is Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina
   State University. 
   
                                      
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