Prigg v. Pennsylvania : slavery, the Supreme Court, and the ambivalent constitution

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Main Author: Baker, H. Robert.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2012.
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.