Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)McDougall, Marion Gleason
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Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865)
McDougall, Marion Gleason
Fugitive slaves -- United States; Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
=1772.= England will not return a fugitive slave: _Moore, Slavery in
Mass., 117; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 163; Goodell, Slavery and
Antislavery, 44-52; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, I. 189-193; Broom,
Constitutional Law, 6-119; Howells, State Trials, XX. 1;
Tasswell-Langmead, English Constitutional History, 300, n._
=10. Ship Friendship, case of. [§ 5.]=
=1770.= Harbored a slave: _Moore, Slavery in Mass., 117._
=11. John. [§ 17.]=
=1778.= Free negro kidnapped in Pennsylvania: _Am. State Papers, I. 39;
Cong. Globe, 31 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 1585._
=12. Quincy's case. [§ 34.]=
=1793.= First case in Boston after 1793: _Edw. C. Learned, Speech on The
New Fugitive Slave Law, Chicago, Oct. 25, 1850; Whittier, Prose Works,
11, 129, A Chapter of History; Goodell, Slavery and Antislavery, 232;
Boston Atlas, Oct. 15, 1850._
=13. Washington's slave. [§ 35.]=
=1796, Oct.= President Washington demanded a slave from Portsmouth, N.
H.: _Magazine of American History, Dec., 1877, p. 759; Charles Sumner,
Works, III. 177._
=14. North Carolina fugitives. [§ 19.]=
=1796.= _Annals of Congress, 1796-7, p. 2015, 1801-2, p. 343._
=15. Columbia case.=
=1804.= General Boude defends a runaway: _Smedley, Underground Railroad,
26._
=16. Solomon Northup. [§ 38.]=
=1808.= Kidnapping at Saratoga, N. Y.: _Solomon Northrup, Autobiography._
=17. Williams case.=
=1815.= Claimed as a fugitive in Philadelphia: _Greeley, American
Conflict, I. 216._
=18. Prigg case. [§ 27.]=
=1832.= _16 Peters, 539; Report of Case of Edward Prigg, Supreme Court,
Pennsylvania; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery; Bledsoe, Liberty and
Slavery, 355; Clarke, Antislavery Days, 69; Hurd, Law of Freedom and
Bondage, II. 456-492; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I.
472-473; Von Holst, Constitutional History, III. 310-312._
=19. Kidnapping of Jones. [§ 37.]=
=1836.= Kidnapping in New Jersey: _Liberator, Aug. 6, 1836._
=20. Chickasaw rescue. [§ 42.]=
=1836.= Rescue of two colored women on brig Chickasaw: _Liberator, Aug.
6, 1836._
=21. Schooner Boston case. [§ 47.]=
=1837.= Georgia and Maine controversy: _Wilson, Rise and Fall of the
Slave Power, I. 473; Niles's Register, LIII. 71, 72, LV. 356; Senate
Journal, 1839-40, pp. 235-237; Senate Doc., 26 Cong. 1 Sess., Vol. V.
Doc. 273._
=22. Philadelphia. [§ 43.]=
=1838.= Attempted rescue: _Liberator, March 16, 1838._
=23. Escape of Douglass. [§§ 68, 75.]=
=1838.= Escape of Frederick Douglass: _Life and Times of Douglass;
Williams, Negro Race in America, II. 59, 422; Wilson, Rise and Fall of
the Slave Power, I. 501, 502._
=24. Isaac Gansey case. [§ 47.]=
=1839.= Virginia and New York controversy: _U. S. Gazette, Case of Isaac,
Judge Hopkinson's speech; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I.
474; Seward, Works, II. 449-518; Von Holst, Constitutional History, II.
538-540; Senate Documents, 27 Cong. 2 Sess., Vol. II. Doc. 96._
=25. Van Zandt case. [§ 50.]=
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