Fugitive justice
Subtitle: runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial
By: Steven Lubet
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780674047044
Subjects: United States; Fugitive slaves; Trials (Political crimes and offenses); Law and legislation; Slavery; Legal status, laws; Antislavery movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery and the Constitution; title: The Missouri equilibrium; title: The compromise of 1850; title: But we have no country; title: A traitorous combination; title: Prosecution at Independence Hall; title: Sir-did you hear it?; title: Athens of America; title: Kidnapping again!; title: The height of cruelty; title: Judge Loring's predicament; title: Freedom on the Western reserve; title: The son betrays and the father indicts; title: Votaries of the higher law; title: An irrepressible conflict.