The Black Laws


Book Description

Beginning in 1803, and continuing for several decades, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. Stephen Middleton tells the story of this racial oppression in Ohio and provides chilling episodes of how blacks asserted their freedom from the enactment of the Black Laws until the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.







Messages to the General Assembly


Book Description

Includes annual, biennial and special messages, inaugural adresses, speches, etc. before the Legislature.