The history of Negro servitude in Illinois and of the slavery agitation in that State, 1719-1864
By: by N. Dwight Harris.
Publisher: Negro Universities Press; Praeger
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Slavery -- Illinois.; African Americans -- Illinois.; Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of slaves in the free states.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Reprint of the 1904 ed.
A revision of the author's thesis, University of Chicago.
Table of contents: title: -The Beginnings of Slavery in the Illinois Country, 1719-1783; title: -Slavery in the Illinois Territory, 1800-1818; title: -Slavery and the Constitution of 1818; title: -The Contest for a Convention, 1820-1824; title: -Negro Servitude under the Constitution of 1818; title: -The Lovejoy Episode – in St. Louis; title: -The Lovejoy Episode (continued) – in Alton; title: -The Slavery Question in the Courts, 1819-1864; title: -The Beginnings of the Anti-slavery Agitation; title: -The Origin of the Illinois Liberty Party and the Free Soil Party; title: -The Free Soil, Free Democratic, and Republican Parties, 1848-1856; title: -Later Slavery Agitation and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates; title: -The Progress of Sentiment on the Negro Question, 1840-1875; title: Appendices; title: -Bibliography; title: -Specimen Copies of Slave Papers; title: -Data Relative to the Contest of 1823-24; title: -Table of Abolition Votes