Fugitive Justice : : Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial / / Steven Lubet.
During the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pursuit and return of fugitive slaves—a practice enforced under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When free Blacks and their abolitionist allies intervened, prosecutions and trials inevitably followed. These cases i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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