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Author:
Lubet, Steven.
Title:
Fugitive justice : runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial / Steven Lubet.
Publisher:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
367 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--United States.
United States.--Fugitive slave law (1850)
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Slavery--Law and legislation--United States.
Antislavery movements--United States.
Loring, Edward G.--(Edward Greely),--1802-1890.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0674047044 (alk. paper)
9780674047044 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)555658518
LCCN:
2010012950
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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