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MO-1834 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
Mulattoes; Murder; Negroes; Passes; Patrols;
Personal debt; Rape; Riots and disorders;
Runaways; Sales of slaves; Servants; St. Louis,
MO; State constitutions; State legislatures;
Trials; Unlawful assembly; Weapons; Whipping;
Dade, John; Frost, Thomas; Gregg, Jacob;
Rouse, Paisa; Scritchfield, Sarah Anne; Silvers,
John; Swift, Thomas; Wilson, Andrew
MO-1836
Contains:
• An Act to prohibit the publication,
circulation, or promulgation of the abolition
doctrines, [p. 3]
• An Act supplementary to an act, entitled
"An act to license Auctioneers, and impose
a tax on licenses and sales," approved
February 26, 1835. [p. 11]
• An Act amendatory to an act concerning
crimes and punishments, [p. 60]
• An Act respecting partition and assignment
of dower in slaves, [pp. 60-61]
• An Act supplementary to "An act
concerning Patrols." [p. 105]
• An Act to provide for Opening and
Repairing Public Roads and Highways, [pp.
110-116]
• An Act, for the relief of the heirs of Finis
W. Shannon, deceased, and the guardians of
the said heirs, [pp. 319-320]
• Resolution by the General Assembly of the
State of Missouri. Approved January 25,
1837. [p. 329]
Descriptors: Abolitionists and abolition societies;
Apprentices; Greene County, MO; Highways
and roads; Inheritance; Insurrection; Lafayette
Circuit Court, MO; Murray County, TN;
Murder; Pardons; Patrols; Persons of color; Sales
of slaves; Taxation; Whipping; Betty (slave);
Fletcher, James; Shannon, Finis W.; Shannon,
Gelset T.; Shannon, John; Shannon, Martha
MO-1838
Contains:
• An Act to license and regulate groceries,
dram shops, and for other purposes, [pp.
50-57]
210 State Slavery Statutes
• An Act for the more effectual protection of
Public Worship in the State of Missouri, [pp.
101-102]
• An Act to pay J.H. Benson, [p. 209]
• Preamble and resolutions, respecting
Slavery, [pp. 337-338]
Descriptors: Federal-State relations; Liquor laws;
Mulattoes; Murder; Negroes; Religious meet-
ings; Saline Circuit Court, MO; Slaveholding
states; Trials; Benson, J. H.; Jim (slave); Lewis
(slave)
MO-1840
Contains:
• An Act to amend and reduce into one the
several acts providing for taking the Census,
[pp. 26-28]
• An Act to regulate Groceries and Dram
Shops, [pp. 81-84]
• An Act amendatory of an act, entitled "An
act to enable persons held in slavery to sue
for their freedom," approved 27th January,
1835. [p. 146]
• An Act supplementary to an act, entitled
"An act concerning Slaves." [pp. 146-147]
• An Act amendatory of an act, entitled "An
act concerning Slaves," approved 19th
March, 1835. [p. 147]
• An Act to incorporate the town of
Washington in the county of Franklin, [pp.
308-312]
• Resolution of the House of Representatives
and the Senate of the State of Missouri.
Approved February 16, 1841. [pp. 336-337]
Descriptors: Boats and ships; Census; Franklin
County, MO; Fugitive slave laws, states;
Fugitives; Free persons of color; Free white
males; Hiring of slaves; Incorporation of cities
and towns; Liquor laws; New York State; Patrols;
Runaways; Slaveholding states; Virginia; Wash-
ington, MO
MO-1842
Contains:
• An Act to amend an act to regulate
executions, [p. 64]