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Title:

Freedom's conditions in the U.S.-Canadian borderlands in the age of emancipation / edited by Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Mills Campbell.

Publisher:

Carolina Academic Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 330 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Blacks--History--Canada--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Freyer, Tony Allan.
Campbell, Lyndsay Mills.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Constituting the free-state borderlands : New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio / Tony Freyer -- The state the slaveholders made : regulating fugitive slaves in the early republic / Gautham Rao -- Governance in the borderlands : upper Canadian legal institutions / Lyndsay Campbell -- British rights and liberal law in Canada's fugitive slave debate, 1833-1843 / Bradley Miller -- Constrained choices : New England slavery decisions in the antebellum era / Aviam Soifer -- The northern borderlands : Canada West / Lyndsay Campbell -- The judicial construction of whiteness in the borderlands of the Northwest Territory, 1803-1860 / Stephen Middleton -- Willis v. Jolliffe : love and slavery on the South Carolina-Ohio borderlands / John Wertheimer.

ISBN:

1594607729 (alk. paper)
9781594607721 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)651011961

LCCN:

2010030053

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)