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Author:

Harris, Norman Dwight, 1870-

Title:

History of Negro slavery in Illinois and of the slavery agitation in that state / by Norman Dwight Harris.

Publisher:

A.C. McLurg & Co.,

Copyright Date:

1906, 1904

Description:

x, 276 pages : frontispiece, portraits facsimile ; 20 cm

Subject:

Slavery--Illinois.
African Americans--Illinois.
Slavery--United States--Legal status of slaves in free states.

Notes:

Ph. D. University of Chicago Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.

Contents:

The beginnings of slavery in the Illinois Country, 1719-1783 -- Slavery in the Illinois Territory, 1800-1818 -- Slavery and the Constitution of 1812 -- The contest for a convention, 1820-1824 -- Negro servitude under the Constitution of 1818 -- The Lovejoy episode : in St. Louis -- The Lovejoy episode (continued) : in Alton -- The slavery question in the courts, 1819-1864 -- The beginnings of the anti-slavery agitation -- The origins of the Illinois Liberty Party and the Free Soil Party -- The Free Soil, Free Democratic, and Republican Parties, 1848-1856 -- Later slavery agitation and the Lincoln-Douglas debate -- The progress of sentiment on the Negro question, 1840-1875.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1361679

Locations:

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)