Fugitive Justice : : Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial /

Fugitive Justice : : Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial / / Steven Lubet.

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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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Lubet, Steven,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Slavery and the Constitution
  • 2. The Missouri Equilibrium
  • 3. The Compromise of 1850
  • 4. But We Have No Country
  • 5. A Traitorous Combination
  • 6. Prosecution at Independence Hall
  • 7. Sir— Did You Hear It?
  • 8. Athens of America
  • 9. Kidnapping Again!
  • 10. The Height of Cruelty
  • 11. Judge Loring’s Predicament
  • 12. Freedom on the Western Reserve
  • 13. The Son Betrays and the Father Indicts
  • 14. Votaries of the Higher Law
  • 15. An Irrepressible Conflict
  • Epilogue: Harpers Ferry and Beyond
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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