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Fugitive justice : runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial

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 case...

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Main Author: Lubet, Steven.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects and Genres:
Loring, Edward G. > (Edward Greely), > 1802-1890.
United States. > Fugitive slave law (1850)
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States.
Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States.
Antislavery movements > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Slavery and the Constitution
  • The Missouri equilibrium
  • The compromise of 1850
  • But we have no country
  • A traitorous combination
  • Prosecution at Independence Hall
  • Sir-did you hear it?
  • Athens of America
  • Kidnapping again!
  • The height of cruelty
  • Judge Loring's predicament
  • Freedom on the Western reserve
  • The son betrays and the father indicts
  • Votaries of the higher law
  • An irrepressible conflict.

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