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SITE LISTINGS Alphabetical  |  By Popularity    (What's This?) Compromise of 1850@ - Explore the Compromise of 1850, aka the Pearce Act, a series of U.S. Congressional legislative actions to regulate the spread of slavery in the territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. Sites offer background information, graphic illustrations, historical speeches, and related documents about the legal measures which were anti-slavery milestones in the U.S. history. Dred Scott Decision (1856)@ Fugitive Slave Act@ Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854@ Missouri Compromise@ Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery - From Yale Law School's Avalon Project. Thirteenth Amendment@ Virginia Statutes on Slaves and Servants - Covering the period between 1642 and 1705. Virtual Jamestown: Slave Laws - Also covering laws concerning indentured servants.

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