[SLAVERY AND NATIVE AMERICANS]. Acts of the General Assembly of The State of Georgia, Passed at Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December, 1824. Milledgeville: Camak & Ragland, 1825. 8vo. 220 pp. Approximately 219 x 125 mm. Bound in library binding of full light-green cloth, spine with burgundy gilt morocco lettering label and paper shelf label (boards sunned at edges, spine sunned, binding generally rubbed, soiled, library datestamp on rp, two “Massachusetts State Library” stamps on title-page, as well as a contemporary inscription covering the title-page; some toning, soiling, occasional creasing, tears to text). FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK APPEARANCES OF THESE LAWS.
Laws concerning slavery on pp. 124-126, 158, including the repeal of an 1817 law prohibiting the introduction of slaves to certain areas, but also the introduction of a law prohibiting the sale of “free persons of color” into slavery. Also there is a resolution to condemn the abolition of slavery in Ohio, reaffirming the constitutional right to have slaves in the South. Laws concerning the removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands on pp. 188-81, 190 (these laws were clear precursors to the “Trail of Tears” ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of native peoples).