The following is a guest post by Emily Mizokami, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is in her second year of the Master of Library and Information Science program at San Jose State University and works as a fellow at the California State Railroad Museum.
In honor of the recent Juneteenth holiday, the Law Library of Congress would like to highlight one of our collections and its new name. The Slavery and the Judiciary collection provides digital access to more than one hundred books and manuscripts documenting issues related to slavery and the courts from 1740 to 1860. This collection includes trial transcripts, legal reports, and interpretations of notable court cases. The curation of the collection was inspired by Paul Finkelman’s 1985 publication, Slavery in the Courtroom: an Annotated Bibliography of American Cases. From the main page of the collection, visitors can also explore related resources across other divisions of the Library, like the web archive of the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 and selected collection highlights featured on various Library channels.
The Slavery and the Judiciary, 1740 to 1860 collection offers over 8,700 pages of digitized material from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, spanning a 120-year history. In digitizing these materials, we at the Law Library hope that this collections helps to bring new perspectives on important moments in civil rights legislative history to light.
For more
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- Library of Congress Online Resources – African American History Online: A Resource Guide – Research Guides at Library of Congress
- About this Collection | African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
- The Civil Rights Movement | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress
