The Black laws : race and the legal process in early Ohio / / Stephen Middleton.
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| Superior document: | Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 363 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ambiguous beginnings, 1787-1801
- The many meanings of freedom, 1800-1803
- "A state for white men," 1803-1830
- The battle over the color line, 1830-1839
- The struggle to abolish the color line, 1840-1849
- Enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, 1803-1850
- The fugitive slave crisis in the 1850s
- The limits of freedom.