Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. 5 Vols

1998. ISBN-10: 1575884119. Catterall, Helen Tunnicliff, Editor. Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. With additions by James J. Hayden. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926-1937. Reprinted by William S. Hein Co. 1998. 5 volumes. Hardcover. New. $750. * The compilation, over 2,900 pages, was originally published between 1926 and 1937. The purpose of the set was "to furnish an unbiased picture of American slavery as an actual institution, social and economic, by drawing off from printed reports of cases in the highest state courts and those of the United States, all factual statements and quotations illustrating slavery and the life of the Negro, and accompanying these by compressed versions of the law as pronounced by respective courts.