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Texas Slave Cases

Description: A document composed of brief descriptions of all cases in Texas where the enslaved served as plaintiffs, victims, property, or criminal defendants. The list was compiled by a criminal defense attorney who wanted to help historians with their research into legal cases involving enslaved people in Texas. The court cases are categorized in sections listed in the Table of Contents on page 2: Slaves under Spanish and Mexican Law, Freeing Slaves, Free Negroes of African Descent who Sold Themselves, C… more
Date: 2018-08~
Creator: Hampton, Keith S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Grant Proposal: Challenge to Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code, 1989

Description: Grant proposal submitted by the Texas Human Rights Foundation to the Live Oak Fund for Change requesting funding for a project that would challenge Texas Penal Code Section 21.06 as it is discriminatory towards LGBT people.
Date: August 1989
Creator: Texas Human Rights Foundation, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[David Mitchell and Descendants]

Description: Copy of "David Mitchell and Descendants" originally written by Thomas Mitchell, Jr. The manuscript starts with David Mitchell, possibly a Revolutionary soldier, and details what is known about his life and those of his descendants. The record ends with the marriage of his widow, Sarah Patterson Mitchell Frear, to Abraham Frear. It states that she was the mother and grandmother of many Frears and Mitchells in the family. After the record, there is a note about the original manuscript's author; i… more
Date: August 10, 1936
Creator: Osterhout, Ora
Partner: Austin College
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