Fugitive Slaves And American Courts
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Fugitive Slaves and American Courts
Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publsiher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 2428 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | : 9781584777403 |
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Reprinted from the series Slavery, Race and the American Legal System, 1700-1872, this set contains facsimiles of 56 rare pamphlets relating to court cases involving fugitive slaves. As in the companion set, Southern Slaves in Free State Courts, some pamphlets were part of the public debate over judicial decisions. Others used cases to promote the antislavery cause or, in some instances, support or justify slavery. "These...volumes belong in every library used for research, and in particular at all law school libraries. They will prove valuable to historians, lawyers, law teachers and students, and all persons interested in the problems of slavery and race in American experience.": William M. Wiecek, American Journal of Legal History 33 (1989) 187.
Freedom Seekers
Author | : Damian Alan Pargas |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107179554 |
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Examines the experiences of runaway slaves in North America, conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct 'spaces of freedom'.
Fugitive Justice
Author | : Steven Lubet |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674059467 |
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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 involved high legal, political, and—most of all—human drama, with runaways desperate for freedom, their defenders seeking recourse to a “higher law” and normally fair-minded judges (even some opposed to slavery) considering the disposition of human beings as property. Fugitive Justice tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive slave trials of the 1850s, bringing to vivid life the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutal doggedness of the slavehunters, and the tortuous response of the federal courts. These cases underscore the crucial role that runaway slaves played in building the tensions that led to the Civil War, and they show us how “civil disobedience” developed as a legal defense. As they unfold we can also see how such trials—whether of rescuers or of the slaves themselves—helped build the northern anti-slavery movement, even as they pushed southern firebrands closer to secession. How could something so evil be treated so routinely by just men? The answer says much about how deeply the institution of slavery had penetrated American life even in free states. Fugitive Justice powerfully illuminates this painful episode in American history, and its role in the nation’s inexorable march to war.
The Captive s Quest for Freedom
Author | : R. J. M. Blackett |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108418713 |
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Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
The History of Fugitive Slaves 1619 1865
Author | : Marion Gleason McDougall |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547403982 |
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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) is a historical record of legal cases tried against escaped slaves across the United States of America. The author, Marion McDougall, has drawn together and compared many cases found in obscure sources and made an effort to use the cases as illustrations of principles of how the legislature worked in certain places and certain eras. Her aim was, in some measure, to trace the development of public sentiment upon the subject, in order to prepare an outline of Colonial legislation and of the work of Congress during the covered period.
Slavery in the Courtroom
Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publsiher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781886363489 |
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Winner, Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, 1986. Provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain.
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution
Author | : Gordon S. Barker |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786469871 |
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This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. African Americans and white abolitionists seized upon these dramatic events to exhort citizens to complete the Revolution by extending liberty to all Americans. Casting fugitive slaves and their slave revolt leaders as heroic American Revolutionaries seeking freedom for themselves and their enslaved brethren, this book provides a broader interpretation of the American Revolution.
The Fugitive Slave Bill
Author | : American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Fugitive slave law of 1850 |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105063941038 |
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