Prigg v. Pennsylvania : slavery, the Supreme Court, and the ambivalent constitution
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Language: | English |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
c2012.
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Series: | Landmark law cases & American society.
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Table of Contents:
- A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset
- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause
- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns
- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826
- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence
- Arresting Margaret
- Arresting Edward Prigg
- Before the court
- Deciding Prigg
- After the court.