I was able to find as a primary document A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, a pamphlet written to disprove all propaganda written about Georgia by the trustees of the colony. The entire pamphlet is on this website as a part of “The Capital and the Bay” project, an endeavor by the Library of Congress to compile books and other published materials from the year 1600 to 1925 in an attempt to have a first person chronicle of the history of the Chesapeake region of the modern day United States.
There is, of course, a great deal of material to comb through on the website. What is perhaps one of the best features of the site, however, is its inclusion of images of the book in which the pamphlet was reprinted in 1839. This lends the site a great deal of credibility, as you can see where the information came from. Of course, having the Library of Congress stamp of approval also helps.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbcb:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbcb7018adiv25))
I came across a primary document source with the name American Memory and it has extensive primary court documents involving slaves and the court system 1740-1860. This project to collect these documents was and still is being undertaken by the Library of Congress. I was able to pull up a primary court document on the trial of Thomas Sims. The description of the document is as follows; Trial of Thomas Sims, on an issue of personal liberty, on the claim of James Potter, of Georgia, against him, as an alleged fugitive from service : arguments of Robert Rantoul, Jr., and Charles G. Loring, with the decision of George T. Curtis, Boston, April 7-11, 1851 /.
The website is great for these kinds of primary documents. It gives the information in great detail and allows you to read it in normal text as well as view a scanned version of the original document.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llst&fileName=062/llst062.db&recNum=2&itemLink=r?
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