Race, slavery, and free Blacks
By: edited by Loren Schweninger ; assistant editor Robert Shelton.
Contributors: Schweninger, Loren.; Shelton, Robert, 1957-; Smith, Charles Edward, 1960-; Race and Slavery Petitions Project.
Series: Black studies research sources
Publisher: University Publications of America
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Sources; African-Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Sources; Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Guide to the microfilm edition of Race, slavery, and free Blacks.
Description: Reproduces a collection of nearly 3,000 petitions assembled over a period of ten years by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Notes: Printed guide available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Charles E. Smith, entitled: A guide to the microfilm edition of Race, slavery, and free Blacks. Series I, Petitions to southern legislatures, 1777-1867 (xxiii, 450 p. ; 28 cm.).