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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Equal protection and the African American constitutional experience. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000 (OCoLC)621840600 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert P Green |
| ISBN: | 0313303509 9780313303500 |
| OCLC Number: | 42641733 |
| Description: | xxiv, 342 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Significant Events in the History of Equal Protection of the Laws -- The Origins of Liberty and Equality: Classical Thought, the British Constitution, and the American Revolution -- Christian Egalitarianism in the Letters of Paul (ca. A.D. 50-60) -- The British Constitution -- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690) -- Samuel Sewell, The Selling of Joseph (1700) -- John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches (1717) -- Somerset v. Stewart (1772) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Revolutionary State Declarations and Constitutions (1776-1780) -- Massachusetts Slaves' Petition (1777) -- Quock Walker's Case (1783) -- Thomas Jefferson on African Americans (1785) -- Samuel Stanhope Smith on African Americans (1787) -- Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition (1780) -- The Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- 1787-1861: The Constitution, African Americans, and Equal Protection -- The Constitution of the United States (1787) -- Freemen Petition for Equal Educational Facilities (1787) -- Protest Against Kidnapping and the Slave Trade (1788) -- South Carolina Freemen Petition Against Discrimination (1791) -- Rev. James Dana Speaks Against Slavery (1791) -- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 -- North Carolina Freedmen Petition Congress (1797) -- Freemen Respond to the Idea of Colonization (1817) -- The Missouri Compromise (1820) -- William Wirt's Opinion on the Citizenship of Free Negroes in Virginia (1821) -- Rev. Richard Furman Describes the Biblical Basis for Slavery (1822) -- Fifth Annual National Negro Convention (1835). |
| Series Title: | Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert P. Green, Jr. |
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