Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of an act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act To Prevent Kidnapping." April 18, 1820. Referred to the select committee appointed, on the 18th of March last, to consider of providing more effectually for reclaiming persons held to service

Horrors of the Virginian slave trade and of the slave-rearing plantations the true story of Dinah, an escaped Virginian slave, now in London, on whose body are eleven scars left by tortures which were inflicted by her master, her own father : together with extracts from the laws of Virginia, showing that against these barbarities the law gives not the smallest protection to the slave, but the reverse

The story of the life of John Anderson the fugitive slave

Compromise measures. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, in favor of the compromise measures. February 11, 1852. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed

The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

In Senate of the United States. May 3, 1848. Submitted, and ordered to be printed, and 10,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Mr. Butler made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 239.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred certain resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, "in favor of the passage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding states to recover slaves, when escaping into non-slaveholding states," have had the same under consideration..

Indemnity for slaves. Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana, relative to slaves forcibly carried away, &c. February 19, 1844. Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas, relative to the acts of Congress admitting California into the Union, fixing the boundary of Texas, establishing territorial governments in Utah and New Mexico, the Fugitive-slave Law, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. February 6, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed

Negotiations with Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by resolutions of the House of Representatives, relating to certain negotiations with the government of the United Mexican States. December 28, 1826. Read, and laid upon the table

Slaves and free persons of color an act concerning slaves and free persons of color