TÄTE IAVERY TATUTES - ProQuest

USER INSTRUCTIONS
The instructions below describe the organization, information elements, and
suggested uses of the Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes and the Index by
Subjects, Names, and Geographic Locations.
Accession Numbers and File Organization
This collection assembles the text of all slavery-related statutes, including revised
statutes, as well as constitutional articles and amendments from the 15 slave-
holding states. Slavery statutes are organized alphabetically by the convention
of current state postal abbreviation in the Bibliography. Within states, statutes
are organized chronologically according to the sessional volume in which they
were published.
Each sessional volume has been assigned a single accession number for
reference purposes in the Bibliography and Index sections. This accession
number is similar to the document's microfiche accession number within the
companion microfiche collection, and is based on the name of the state and
the date of the sessional volume of statutes.
The initial element of the accession number refers to the state and is based
on a two-digit abbreviation for each of the 15 slave-holding states as follows:
AL Alabama MO Missouri
AR Arkansas MS Mississippi
DE Delaware NC North Carolina
FL Florida SC South Carolina
GA Georgia TN Tennessee
KY Kentucky TX Texas
LA Louisiana VA Virginia
MD Maryland
The second element refers to the year in which the volume was published.
Where there is more than one sessional volume per year, a third element refer-
ring to the specific month has been added.
For example, a statute assigned the number AL-1840 comes from the Alabama
sessional volume for 1840; a statute assigned the number AH 841.4 comes from
the Alabama sessional volume for April 1841.
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