The Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World is an ongoing project that seeks to provide digital access to the laws governing slavery and freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World, from the founding laws of the seventeenth century to the laws that governed emancipation in the nineteenth century. About the project >

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