The American Documents concerning African-Americans

"40 Acres and a Mule" 1865

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)

Appeal of the Independent Democrats (1854)

Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1862)

Atlanta Compromise 1895

Ebonics

An act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate (Virginia - 1705)

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Constitution of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States

The Black Code of Louisiana (1724)

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

State v. Boon (1801)

Slave Codes of the State of Georgia (1848)

Origin of "Jim Crow" (1843)

Washington's Black Code (1812)

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

 

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

The Crittenden Compromise (1860)

The Free Colored People of North Carolina (1902)

An Act to increase the military force of the Confederate States - 1865

Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1868)

A Washington Civil Rights Act (1869)

Executive Order 1730

The Dred Scott Case

The Black Panther Party, Platform and Program

Organization of Afro-American Unity

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line (1763-1767)

A Sharecrop Contract (1882)

An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807)

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia (1839)

Black Laws of Ohio (1804)

Washington's Black Code (1808)