Lubet, Steven.

Fugitive justice runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial / [electronic resource] : Steven Lubet. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - 367 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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2013.
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Loring, Edward G. 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.


Electronic books.

KF221.P6 / L83 2010eb

342.7308/7

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