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The Allen Morris Forum on the Native South invites interested parties to join a collegial exhibition of new research on Native Americans in the American South virtually via Zoom. The March 2021 session welcomes the work of Dr. Evan Nooe from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College.

The Allen Morris Forum on the Native South invites interested parties to join a collegial exhibition of new research on Native Americans in the American South virtually via Zoom. The March 2021 session welcomes the work of Dr. Evan Nooe from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College.

The Allen Morris Forum on the Native South invites interested parties to join a collegial exhibition of new research on Native Americans in the American South virtually via Zoom. The March 2021 session welcomes the work of Dr. Evan Nooe from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College.

As a followup to Sally Haden’s post, Pre-Statehood Legal Materials is available online in HeinOnline available in many libraries.

Joel Fishman

Dear Manon,

The volumes of Hening plus Cooper and McCord you cite are the beginning but not the end of what you must consult. In both colonies, much was omitted from those volumes. Charles Lesser's critical work, South Carolina Begins, details the numerous gaps that he found in SC published law over a lifetime of working at the state archives. Likewise, Warren Billings is one of several scholars who have plumbed the depths at the Virginia archives and noted shortcomings in Hening; his key essay on omissions in Hening is suggestive of the omissions you will encounter. 

To: Manon Odde-Debordes:

There is an earlier source for the Colony of Virginia:
"The Acts of Assembly, Now in Force, in the Colony of Virginia." Williamsburg, Va.: Printed by W. Rind, A. Purdie, and J. Dixon, 1769.

If you want to extend your research into English slave law in the Caribbean, take a look at: Hall, Richard. "Acts Passed in the Island of Barbados, from 1643, to 1762." London: Printed for Richard Hall, 1764.

Best wishes, David L. Crosby, Emeritus, Alcorn State University

To: Manon Odde-Debordes:
Yes, Hening and McCord, though old, are serious sources for slave law in Virginia and So. Carolina.
You might also want to look at my recent article on how these sources deal with black freedom and slave Christianity in those two colonies. Here's the cite:
" 'Swarms of Negroes Comeing about My Door': Black Christianity in Early Dutch and English North America," in THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Vol. 103, No. 1 (June 2016), pp. 34-58.

Good luck, Patricia Bonomi, Emerita, New York University

Hello everyone, 

I am a French student specialized in legal history.  This year I am writing a dissertation on the status of slaves in the French and British colonial empires (17th - 18th Century). I am right now doing primary research on laws about the status of slaves. If finding resources on the French colonial empire is quite easy for me, I have however had a lot of trouble finding primary sources on the British colonial empire. 

The resources I have right now are the following :