HIST 141: Key Analysis #2

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Instructions:

In the 21st Century, Historians have built digital exhibits where the public can access historic documents online. For this KA, you will explore 3 of them: The Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (which documents slavery in the Carolinas) and the Yale Avalon Project (which houses the nations oldest federal laws and political documents. Additionally, you will examine the Code Noir meaning the Black Code in French. This document consists of the laws produced by the French to govern slavery in their Caribbean colonies which were/are: St. Domingue (Now Haiti), Guadeloupe and Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Martinique, Anguilla, Saint Lucia, and Saint Martin.

Finally, you will look at a compiled list of slave codes from NC. This document is housed at UNC Chapel Hills DocSouth Digital Archive.

LINKS:

https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/sectionii_introduction/contrasting_beginnings_of_slav

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/transcription-of-the-code-noir-the-black-code.htm

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/usconst.asp

https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/slavesfree/slavesfree.html