Stroud's Slave Laws: A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America

In an analytical approach to the statutes of twelve slave holding states Stroud's book exposed to the world the diabolical nature of legal enactments throughout the South that debased both African people and those who held them in bondage. Stroud's Slave Laws had extensive influence upon national legal thinking on the issue of slavery.