St. Louis Legal Encoding Project Resources

Books & Publications

• Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann). From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom. (St. Louis: J.T. Smith, [189-?])
• Finkelman, Paul. Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981)
• Finkelman, Paul. Slavery in the Courtroom. (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1985)
• Foley, William E. "Slave Freedom Suits Before Dred Scott: The Case of Marie Jean Scypion's Descendants." Missouri Historical Review 79 (October 1984), pp. 1-23.
• Gross, Ariela. Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom. (Princeton University Press, 2000)
• Moore, Robert Jr. "A Ray of Hope Extinguished: St. Louis Slave Suits for Freedom." Gateway Heritage 14 (Winter 1993-94): 4-15.
• Schafer, Judith K. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994)
• Sestric, Anthony J. 57 Years: A History of the Freedom Suits in the Missouri Courts. (St. Louis: Reedy Press, 2012)
• Wiecek, William M. The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760 - 1848. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977)

Online Resources

• African-American Resources - St. Louis Public Library
• Africans in America
• Background of Slave Freedom Suits in Missouri
• Before Dred Scott: Freedom Suits in Antebellum Missouri
• City of St. Louis, Preservation Plan for St. Louis, The African American Experience
• Digital Library on American Slavery at U. of North Carolina-Greensboro
• Missouri State Archives Missouri's African American History
• Freedom Licenses information - Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Freedom Suits information - Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Gilder Lehrman Online - The American Civil War
• Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom from the Library of Congress
• Missouri's African American History
• Slaves and the Courts - 1740 - 1860
• Africans in America by PBS