num_pages: 392
description: Reprint of the first and only edition. Originally Chapel The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xii, 378 pp. Finkelman describes the judicial turmoil that ensued when slaves were taken into free states, and the resultant issues of the conflict of laws, comity and cooperation between the states, their Constitutional obligations, and the threat of the nationalization of slavery.
language: English
title: An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity
titlecomplete: An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity
ratings_count: 3
series: Studies in Legal History
publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.