The Odyssey of John Anderson /

The Odyssey of John Anderson / / Patrick Brode.

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In 1860 the American government made a formal request for the extradition of a fugitive slave, John Anderson of Brantford, Canada West. At first glance the request was routine. But the legal, political, and diplomatic controversy that arose from this hearing threatened to topple a Canadian governmen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Brode, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1989
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (150 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PUBLICATIONS OF THE OSGOODE SOCIETY
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 In Little Dixie
  • 2 A Sudden Impulse
  • 3 Magistrate Mathews’s Prisoner
  • 4 A Cause Célèbre
  • 5 Argument and Pleading
  • 6 ‘The Wrangling Courts and Stubborn Law’
  • 7 England Intervenes
  • 8 A Case of Quibbles
  • 9 ‘To Make a Demigod of Him’
  • 10 Back to Africa
  • Notes
  • Index

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